WELLESLEY COLLEGE

Committee on Educational Research & Development

Quick Fix Grants
Quick fix grants provide small amounts of money during the academic year to meet short-term, specific instructional needs that could not be addressed far enough in advance to be built into departmental budgets. The application and review process have changed and are now handled through individual departments. (NEW)

General Grants
General grants are intended to support the development of a new or experimental course; to extensively revise an existing course; to support travel to conferences specifically related to teaching; and to allow participation in a workshop or class related to the subject that you teach.

Deadlines for General Grants are September 17, 2007, November 5, 2007, February 4, 2008 and April 7, 2008.

Experimental Courses
The ER&D Committee encourages applications for the support of experimental and innovative courses. Experimental courses should be innovative in terms of subject matter or pedagogy or both. These courses should be ones that fall outside of departmental offerings, but may be in support of new interdisciplinary programs or may represent emerging areas of study.

Members of the 2007-08 Educational Research & Development Committee:

Barbara Beatty,Chair
Daniel Brabander
Carol Dougherty
Marc Tetel
Sally Theran
Beth Hennessey
Adele Wolfson