Catalyst Grants (Tier 3)
Catalyst grants provide funding to catalyze and support more substantial instructor-initiated course interventions and program development projects that advance teaching practices, curriculum, and pedagogical research and inspire new ways of engaging students in innovative and equitable instruction. By acting as a catalyst for change, these grants foster implementation, expansion, and assessment of innovative teaching and curricular approaches with the potential for large-scale impacts on students, instructors, and departmental culture
2026 Awardees
2025 Awardees
Transformation Grants Program: Planning Grants
(Tier 4: Track 1)
Planning grants are intended to support teams of instructors in developing a data-informed and evidence-based plan for programmatic action. Such efforts may result in advancing efforts to apply for a Track 2 implementation grant, although this is not a required outcome of the Track 1 awards.
2026 Awardees
2025 Awardees
Transformation Grants Program: Implementation Grants
(Tier 4: Track 2)
Academic units with a shared vision and data-informed course of action for pedagogical and curricular transformation are invited to apply for an Implementation grant. This Tier 4 grant category may be awarded to teams of instructors at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional student levels working towards linked reforms across a specified set of courses with project goals aligned to meet student needs and address particular learning challenges within the larger curriculum or program.
