Tier 4 (Transformation Grants) Program

Overview

Tier 4 Transformation Grants are designed to support academic units in pursuing larger-scale educational innovations that promote student exploration, creativity, engagement, discovery, and success. Departments and programs are encouraged to engage in pedagogical and curricular experimentation across sequenced, integrated, or otherwise linked courses and instructional programs of study, including interdepartmental, cross-disciplinary, interprofessional, co-curricular, and bridge programs. Tier 4 transformation grants provide funding to both bring ideas to action (Track 1: Planning Grants) and execute new pedagogical and curricular reforms (Track 2: Implementation Grants).

Tier 4 grants support team projects. Teams of instructors will come together to explore ideas and challenges, ask and address questions guided by institutional data, and pursue coordinated and impactful improvements to the academic experience from the undergraduate to graduate and professional student levels.

Track 1 Planning Grants (up to $10,000)

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. 

View Track 1 requirements & application 

Track 2 Implementation Grants (up to $100,000)

Academic units with a shared vision and data-informed course of action for pedagogical and curricular transformation are invited to apply for a Track 2 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.

View Track 2 requirements & proposal form