Faculty Development

Information about teaching, tenure and promotion, grants, sabbaticals and professional development opportunities.

Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning (CATL). Links to UW-L teaching projects and events.

Tenure and Promotion

Grants, Sabbatical and Professional Development Programs

UW System Grants available to UW-La Crosse Faculty & Staff

  • Applied Research Grant Program-Support for faculty to use their expertise and scholarship to enhance economic development in Wisconsin.
  • Closing the Achievement Gap-Grants to develop and support programs that are effective in promoting institutional change to foster access and excellence for historically underrepresented populations.
  • Conference Development Grants-Support for programs that promote enhancement of undergraduate teaching and learning and involve cooperation and exchange among UW System faculty. Programs are typically workshops, presentations, or mini-conferences on teaching-related subjects.
  • Emerging Technology Pilot Grants-Awards up to $5,000 for projects that will advance the innovative use of technology for teaching and learning, and projects related to faculty and instructional development in the effective use of technology in teaching and learning. Applicants should contact Jim Jorstad, UWL Learning Technology Development Council Representative, before writing the proposal.
  • Growth Agenda Grants-These grants support UW System growth agenda action steps including projects related to: 1) New pathways to degrees and other related initiatives to enhance educational opportunities for Wisconsin’s underserved adult population, 2) New or Expanded Projects for a Wisconsin KnowHow2Go Network, enlisting college undergraduates, faculty, and staff as mentors to K-12 students, 3) Collaboration with PK-12 community to enrich college preparation in the area of Mathematics, and 4) New or Expanded Projects for the development of a Student Engagement Portfolio. For additional information see the grant guidelines.
  • PK-16 Initiative: Teacher Quality Initiative-(There is no RFP for these grants for 2009-10). Supports campus activities that will advance the successful implementation of PI 34 (state rules governing ed. prep. programs) and the delivery of quality educational preparation programs built upon a foundation of all-university responsibility and broad-based collaboration (BOR resolution, June 2001). Funding supports activities related to the initial preparation and/or on-going professional development of teachers.
    • UWS Contact: Francine Tompkins, Director PK-16 Initiatives, UW System Academic and Student Services, ftompkins@uwsa.edu, 608-262-5464
  • Racial and Ethnic Studies Grants-Support for research, curriculum development, miscellaneous projects such as events and lectures, minority faculty research/retention awards, seed grants to pursue collaboration and extramural funding, and campus reading seminars.
    • Deadline: The UW-La Crosse Deadline for submitting grants is MARCH 9, 2009. Submit an electronic copy of the proposal to grants@uwlax.edu. Fill out and include the 2 page Grant Application Form. The signatures of the Provost and Grants Officer will be added after you submit the proposal.
    • Guidelines and Application
    • UWS Contact: Thomas Tonnesen, UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity, tonnesen@uwm.edu, 414-229-4700
  • Undergraduate Teaching & Learning Grants-Support campus teaching and learning projects. The program typically focuses on a theme each year. (e.g., Scholarship of Teaching & Learning or Partnering for Success in the First Year: Learning about Learning).
  • Wisconsin ESEA Improving Teacher Quality Program (WITQ)-Support for increasing student achievement in the arts, civics and government, economics, English, foreign languages, geography, history, mathematics, reading or language arts, and science, by improving the teaching and principal quality at the K-12 level in Wisconsin's public and private schools. The funds will provide grants to eligible partnerships.
    • UWS contact: Phil Makurat, Coordinator, Wisconsin ESEA Improving Teacher Quality Program, makuratp@uww.edu, 262-472-5802
  • Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Teaching Scholars Programs-A UW System Program that supports early-career teachers (Teaching Fellow) and later-career teachers (Teaching Scholar) to engage in a year long study of teaching and learning. UWL supports one Teaching Fellow and one Teaching Scholar annually.