The Ohio Five Collaborative Grants Program awarded two $5,000 grants to multi-college projects linking teaching with career development and DEI practices; a January 15 application deadline approaches.
Two new projects supporting innovations in teaching received full funding from the Ohio Five Collaborative Grants Program at its August 15, 2021 docket. Selected for grant support were:
Humanities at Work ($5,000), led by faculty members Julie Mujic (Denison University) and Mary Anne Lewis Cusato (Ohio Wesleyan University) will host a fall planning conference to develop ways to support humanities faculty interested in connecting their coursework with meaningful student career pursuits and working with career services offices to articulate the value of humanities to employers. A website will report the results of the conference and continued planning around the project’s four pillars of raising funding for the initiative, outreach to employers, publication of research, and the development of a fellows program.
“What Works? Innovative and Inclusive Pedagogy for Teaching and Learning Together”($5,000) This June 2022 virtual conference, led by Joseph M. Murphy, Director of Kenyon College’s Center for Innovative Pedagogy, Kenyon Instructional Designer Alex Alderman, and Jennifer Garrett Lisy and Michelle M. Nobel, both Assistant Professors of Education at Ohio Wesleyan University, will bring together nine eminent presenters who will discuss strategies for incorporating intentional diversity, equity and inclusion work with innovations in the classroom and teaching spaces. Faculty and staff from Ohio Five colleges and GLCA institutions will be invited to participate in this three-day event, which will also be live-captioned and recorded for future viewing.
“Supporting academic innovation and scholarship on our campuses is among the key priorities of the Ohio Five Collaborative Grants Program,” commented Ohio Five Executive Director Sarah Stone. “We are pleased to support these two projects that incorporate two high priorities for our campuses – career development and DEI work in the classroom – in this first round of funding in the 2021-22 academic year.”
Ohio Five will consider a second round of grant applications after its upcoming deadline on January 15, 2022. For more information about the program and how to apply, please visit https://www.ohio5.org/page/grants.