Transformation Grants (Tier 4) Program
Overview
Transformation Grants (Tier 4) are designed to support academic units in pursuing larger-scale educational innovations that promote student exploration, creativity, engagement, discovery, and success. Across two funding tracks, these grants provide funding to both bring curricular ideas to action and support academic units preparing for Academic Program Review (Track 1: Planning Grants) and execute new pedagogical and curricular reforms (Track 2: Implementation Grants).
Transformation Grants support team projects. Teams of instructors should come together to explore ideas and challenges, ask and address questions guided by institutional data, and pursue coordinated and impactful improvements to students’ academic experience at UCLA. Principal Investigators for Transformation Grants must be current UCLA Senate faculty.
Planning Grants up to $10,000 (Track 1)
Planning Grants (Track 1) 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 an Implementation Grant (Track 2) or a Catalyst Grant (Tier 3), although this is not a required outcome of the Track 1 awards. Departments coming up for Academic Program Review are encouraged to explore the Planning Grant option as a supportive strategy to engage collaboratively with the TLC to collect direct evidence of student learning and success within a particular academic program. Those considering this option should apply one year prior to the preparation of the department’s self-study and two years before the site visit.
View Track 1 requirements & application
Implementation Grants up to $100,000 (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 (Track 2). This 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. Proposed projects should be ambitious, well-conceived, research-informed, and have departmental and/or College/School resources committed to support immediate execution and sustainability. These commitments must be articulated in the support letters provided by the Chair and Dean. Implementation Grants are considered highly competitive with only one fully-funded and up to five partially-funded proposals awarded each year.