Tag: CTL mini-grants
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The challenges and rewards of a decade-long collaborative student project
By Hailey Ferris, Rebecca Olson, and Mckenna Sonday, OSU College of Liberal Arts Introduction (Rebecca) In 2016, I initiated what would become a long-term teaching and public humanities project, a student-edited open textbook Romeo and Juliet, published with OSU’s Open Educational Resources. An innovative edition of a Shakespeare play insofar as it was designed by…
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From regulation to integration: A year of learning
By Julie Zwart, INTO OSU Last fall, just before Halloween, I joked to a couple of colleagues that if I were going to dress up for Halloween, it would be fitting for me to go as the AI Police. I had just finished a week of policing students. During three of my writing classes, I…
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Support for faculty excellence: Teaching mini-grants, fellowships, and SoTL scholars
In support of faculty excellence and student success, the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invites applications for three funded opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. CTL’s teaching mini-grants challenge faculty to think creatively about their teaching and make bold curricular choices to enhance student learning; faculty teaching fellowships provide opportunities for university leadership in teaching…
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Centering community in the classroom: Experiential approaches in ethnic studies
By Jennifer A. Reimer Recio, OSU-Cascades What happens when students encounter course concepts through lived experience, dialogue, and shared space? This question guided my CTL mini-grant project, Embodied Perspectives: Integrating Scholar and Community Voices in Ethnic Studies. With support from the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning, I developed a speaker series across ES 201:…
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Expanding experiential learning in agricultural education
By KJ Joseph, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences One of the most consistent things we hear from graduate students in Agricultural Education is this: they want more chances to teach before student teaching. Not just observe. Not just plan. But actually teach — messy moments, real learners, authentic settings, and all. This project was designed…
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Announcing the 2025-26 CTL Mini-Grant recipients
In Spring 2025, the Center for Teaching and Learning held an open call for teaching mini-grant proposals with up to $2,500 in funding for each proposed project. CTL’s Teaching Mini-Grants challenge instructors to think creatively about their teaching and make bold curricular choices that work towards every student graduating with meaningful learning experiences; these mini-grants…