Faculty Innovation in Teaching Program

The Application Process

The 2009 Call for Proposals is now closed. Awards will be announced in at the end of April. Good luck!

1. Consult with program staff

As part of the application process, you should schedule a meeting with an Academic Technology Services & User Support (ATSUS) consultant to begin the process of structuring your proposal. This and additional resources are available to assist you in articulating your teaching challenges, goals and strategies. Requests for appointments or questions can be sent via email to: innovprojects@cornell.edu

2. Contact your college or FABIT representative for specific application criteria

College-specific requirements

Faculty who are thinking of applying for a college-specific project should discuss application requirements and selection process with the appropriate college contacts.

Requirements for collaborative proposals to FABIT

FABIT has established a set of broad guidelines for proposal submissions and will consider proposals which:

• involve collaborations of two or more faculty members from different colleges
  or
• fall outside of traditional department/college-based curricula.

3. Review the proposal guidelines

In your proposal, you are asked to focus on the overall educational goals for the proposed project, and to relate specific ideas that you may already have about the use of technology. Download the proposal guidelines [PDF].

Project Resources and Budget

It is not necessary to provide a budget with your project proposal. The Provost has funded a number of staff within CIT’s Academic Technology Services & User Support division whose explicit focus is to support these innovation projects. Project support comes primarily in the form of the development services required to turn faculty ideas into reality. These services are coordinated by ATSUS staff in collaboration with campus partners, such as the Library and the Center for Learning and Teaching. Funds have also been made available for the purchase of hardware, software, and other technical services/assistance that might be required. Support is also available for faculty release time. Given the above, you do not need to submit a specific budget as part of the proposal application.

4. Complete the online application

The application is now closed. The proposal will remain available for reference only.

After you complete the online proposal application form, you will receive an email notification that your proposal has been submitted using the online form. An email notification with your proposal will also go to the relevant College/School or FABIT contact.

• Applicant and Course Profile asks about the faculty contact information and associated courses for the proposed project.
• Statement of Intent
  This section asks a series of questions about the teaching issues, proposed innovations, and goals for your proposed project. In answering the following questions, you may or may not include potential technology solution. (Answers to the questions should not exceed 6-pages in total).

5. Intellectual Property Memorandum

Intellectual Property Rights Agreement [PDF]

Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Intellectual Property Rights. This document constitutes the intellectual property agreement. The original document will need to be signed by each faculty member or other academic staff member named on the proposal.

Please send the signed Intellectual Property Memorandum to:

Faculty Innovation in Teaching Program
c/o Clare van den Blink, Assistant Director
215 Computing & Communications Center.

Selection and award notification

It is expected that twenty projects will be awarded during each proposal cycle. Sixteen projects will be awarded by the Deans within the colleges and four will be awarded by The Faculty Advisory Board on Information Technologies (FABIT) for collaborative projects and/or for projects that fall outside of the traditional departmental/college curriculum.

Each Dean will notify faculty of decisions for college-specific proposals. The Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board on Information Technologies will notify applicants about decisions regarding collaborative projects.

Expectations for recipients

Shortly after the awards are announced, recipients will need to attend a program orientation to meet the development team and talk about how the development process will work. Attendance at the orientation is important for us to establish communication and workflow between the project managers, developers and project recipients.

Project development will be dependent on when the course it supports is scheduled. Fall course proposals will come first in the development cycle followed by spring course projects. The development timeline may be adjusted or extended in response to the needs of individual projects.

In order to support a development process that allows for exploration, project planning, evaluation and implementation in a relatively short cycle, it is critical that recipients are accessible and able to provide content according to project timelines. Faculty who anticipate extended periods of time away from campus should consider this when applying.

©2008 Cornell University

The Faculty Innovation in Teaching Program is supported by the Office of the President and the Provost. Project development is provided by Academic Technology Services and User Support (ATSUS), a division of Cornell Information Technologies,CIT.