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

Tenure Personnel Rules Link to Wisconsin statute regarding tenure.
Promotion at UW-L Links to promotion resources including schedules, policies, guidelines and forms.
Provost Promotion Resources Links to sample portfolios and recommendations.
Writing About Teaching Materials regarding writing syllabi with learning outcomes, assessment reports, and teaching philosophies.
Digital Measures Links to tutorials, FAQs, and instructions for using e-portfolios.

Locally funded Grants, Sabbatical and Professional Development Programs

IRB Forms and Guidelines
Academic Staff Professional Development Grants Support individual professional development, improvement of program quality, and improvement of institutional effectiveness.
UW-L Curricular Redesign Grants Support efforts that bring advances in disciplinary knowledge into the undergraduate experience and that create and adapt learning materials and teaching strategies that embody what we know about how students learn.
Faculty Development Committee Grants Support: 1) Professional Development, 2) Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, and 3) Teaching Innovation.
Faculty Research Grants Support investigative activities, i.e., scholarly efforts to advance knowledge, increase skills, and improve understanding in any academic discipline.
Faculty Sabbaticals Contact your college office for information about sabbatical leaves.
International Development Fund (Faculty & Academic Staff) Support projects that develop international involvement with established programs with universities and agencies in other countries; encourage faculty and staff research, scholarly exchanges, professional development and travel that enhance the internationalization of the university and its curriculum.
Online Education Grants Support development of fully online courses.
UW-L Foundation Carol Dobrunz Endowment Fund - support for conference costs of non-tenured faculty and instructional academic staff without an indefinite appointment.
UWL Foundation Small Grants Support instruction, research and public service. Funds are provided by alumni, local businesses, matching gift companies and other friends of the University.
Wisconsin Teaching Fellow 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.
Visiting Scholar/Artist of Color Program - Support travel and other expenses associated with bringing a visiting scholar or artist of color to campus.

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

The information below describes many of the grant opportunities offered through UW System. For more details, including deadlines, contact persons, and proposal components, visit the grants page.

Applied Research Grant Program - The UW System-sponsored Applied Research Grant program offers one-year awards for up to $50,000 or, for collaborative proposals, up to $50,000 per participating institution. Faculty and staff in all disciplines on all UW campuses are eligible to apply.
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.
COBE (Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion) Grant Program - The University of Wisconsin System Administration grant program supports the development and implementation of new programs or projects to implement one or more of the COBE strategies.
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.
Curricular Redesign Grants: Leveraging Technology to Meet Classroom Challenges - Support for projects that will advance the innovative use of technology for teaching and learning, and/or for proposals related to faculty and instructional development in the effective use of technology in teaching and learning.
Emerging Technology Pilot Grants - Support 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.
OPID Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grants - Support for campus teaching and learning projects. See the program guidelines for specific information about the thematic focus of the grants.
Supporting the Growth Agenda Grants - Awards up to $100,000 for projects that will improve retention and increase degree achievement at the undergraduate level, collaborate with the PK-12 community to enrich college preparation in mathematics, development of student engagement portfolios, or focus on Inclusive Excellence through expansion of high impact practices targeted at underrepresented students.
PK-16: Teacher Quality Initiative (TQI) & Teacher Recruitment and Retention Initiative (TRRI)
Support for programs that improve the preparation of classroom teachers and programs that prepare teachers through the design and use of standards-based performance assessments (TQI) and support for programs that increase the enrollment and improve the retention and graduation of minorities in teacher preparation (TRRI).
Support of Racial and Ethnic Studies - Institute on Race and Ethnicity 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.
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.

The information above describes many of the grant opportunities offered through UW System. For more details, including deadlines, contact persons, and proposal components,visit the grants page.