Curricular Innovation Award
This award invites proposals for undergraduate courses on all topics across the liberal arts and sciences that employ an engaged scholarship pedagogical approach.
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The Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship Curricular Innovation Awards are currently open for the AY 25-26 cycle. Applications are due February 14, 2025.
The Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship (MPES) integrates community and civically engaged learning into the academic fabric of Harvard College. Through hands-on learning experiences in and beyond the classroom, MPES links academic work to real-world questions, problems, and opportunities, and challenges students to bring together academic perspectives and expertise with community perspectives and expertise. All MPES courses count towards the course requirement of the Certificate for Civic Engagement.
We invite proposals from FAS faculty for engaged scholarship courses on all topics across the liberal arts and sciences. The Curricular Innovation Awards will support:
- Course Development: for the development of new courses, or the substantive redesign of existing courses. Provides funding for a Research Assistant (RA) to assist with course design and planning; as well as funding to teach the course when implemented (which may include funding for course support staff and/or reasonable expenses).
- Experiential Learning: support for course experiences (assignments, site visits, trainings, guests, etc.) rooted in the principles and practices of engaged scholarship in order to further course learning objectives. Provides up to $1000 per year for up to three years.
Eligibility:
Course Development Award: All ladder faculty, professors of the practice, professors in residence, senior lecturers, senior preceptors, and lecturers with long-term teaching appointments (i.e.: dependent lecturers) with more than a 0 FTE appointed in the FAS are invited to apply. Harvard faculty not appointed in FAS may collaborate on a proposal that includes at least one FAS faculty member. The course should be taught at least three times.
Experiential Learning Award: All ladder faculty, professors of the practice, professors in residence, senior lecturers, senior preceptors, lecturers, and preceptors in the more than a 0 FTE appointed in the FAS are invited to apply. The course should be taught at least two times.
Additional information about funding and eligibility may be found in the application.
Need additional guidance?
Visit the Faculty Resources for Teaching and Learning page for more resources on how to develop and support your engaged scholarship course, or contact MPES at engagedscholarship@fas.harvard.edu.