[Pols-l] Fw: CTE RFP: Ideas to Action program for depts; applications due Oct. 21

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Forwarding -From: Mullinix, Kevin <kmullinix at ku.edu> Subject: CTE RFP: Ideas to Action program for departments; applications due Oct. 21
Please note this call for proposals for CTE’s Ideas to Action program for departments (not individuals), and share the call with faculty in your department who may be interested in it.



Participating department teams will receive consultation from CTE; access to tools, dashboards, and reports; an opportunity to connect with colleagues across the University; and a $1500 fund (minimum) for the team.



For more information, please contact CTE’s director Dea Follmer Greenhoot at agreenhoot at ku.edu<mailto:agreenhoot at ku.edu>, or contact me at jeddy at ku.edu<mailto:jeddy at ku.edu>.  Best regards, Judy Eddy


CTE’s Ideas-to-Action Program: AY2022-23

Apply by October 21, 2022



CTE’s Ideas-to-Action program helps academic units develop actionable plans for curricular improvements that promote equitable student growth, discovery, and success. Department teams will use institutional data to explore questions, challenges, and opportunities in their programs and develop a vision for course and curricular innovations. Our goal is to empower faculty teams to ask and address questions with institutional data to guide improvements in student learning and student success.



2022-2023 Program Summary

Ideas to Action is a team endeavor. Departments will identify a team of faculty to develop questions about their curriculum or their students, explore evidence and opportunities related to their questions, and develop plans based on the results.  We are particularly interested in helping teams explore questions about equity, inclusion, and alignment with the current and future needs of students. The program will support exploration, ideation, and planning around those themes and more by providing access to data, tools, guidance, funding, and community. Department teams will have opportunities to explore questions with existing available evidence (e.g., patterns of student retention and progression, data on where in the curriculum students are getting stalled or leaving the program, student responses on the National Survey of Student Engagement/NSSE) and, as relevant, we will also help teams gather additional evidence and information to support further inquiry and problem-solving (e.g., patterns of student learning, student focus groups or surveys).



What Will You Do in Ideas-to-Action?

Department teams will:

  1.  Have one or more team members participate in three program meetings, scheduled for Friday November 11, Friday February 3, and Friday March 24 from 12-2pm (we’ll provide lunch!).
  2.  Meet on their own in between program meetings, to develop questions, discuss results, and envision next steps.
  3.  Share their completed work with their department and the broader KU community.



What Will Ideas-to-Action Do for You?

To support your work, CTE will provide:

  1.  Consultation, guidance, and support in defining high-impact inquiries; gathering and interpreting evidence (e.g., learning within courses, student learning analytics, evidence from the teaching and learning literature); and developing a vision for next steps.
  2.  Access to tools and dashboards and reports, and collaboration with data analysts in Analytics and Institutional Research, that enable use of student learning analytics (e.g., patterns of student flow through the curriculum, grade distributions or retention data disaggregated for student subgroups) to address inquiries.
  3.  Opportunities to connect with an intellectual community of colleagues from other departments who are working toward similar goals and solving similar problems.
  4.  A fund of at least $1500 for the team (available funds may be higher depending on the number of applicants). The fund can be used for professional expenses/small stipends for team leaders and team members, to support student assistance on the project, or for food or supplies for department meetings/retreats).



Eligibility and Expectations

Any KU-Lawrence academic department is eligible to apply. Department teams should be composed of at least three faculty members who will play an active role in the activities, with demonstrated support of the department chair. “Faculty” include multi-term lecturers, teaching specialists, and professors of teaching who have an ongoing role in their departments.



Department teams are expected to send at least one team member to program meetings, and share their work (questions, results, and proposed next steps) in at least one department meeting and in a poster at CTE’s annual Celebration of Teaching held the afternoon of May 5, 2023.



Application

Interested departments should submit a brief application (1-2 pages) by 5 p.m. Friday, October 21 at the following link: https://cte.ku.edu/ctes-ideas-action-program. Applications should address the following:

  1.  Faculty team and leader. Who will lead the team, and what other faculty members will participate? Why is this the right team for this work? How will you go about sharing your work with other department colleagues?
  2.  Goals. What are your goals for participating? What sorts of questions are you interested in exploring and why? What types of actions might your team/department consider taking in response to the evidence you explore during Ideas-to-Action?
  3.  Other Efforts. How would the project connect with prior or current department efforts to support effective teaching and learning?
  4.  Availability. Will at least one team member be able to attend the three working group meetings? Note that all members are welcome to attend.



Selection

Ideas-to-Action projects should promote cooperative, integrated participation among faculty members. Preference will be given to departments that will have broad engagement by faculty and seek to explore questions with meaningful implications for the teaching and learning culture in the unit. We will notify departments of decisions by 11/1/22. Funds will be available in early December.



Questions? Contact Andrea Greenhoot (dea at ku.edu<mailto:dea at ku.edu>) or Judy Eddy (jeddy at ku.edu<mailto:jeddy at ku.edu>).






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