Carleton announces Curricular Innovation Grants for 2025

Curricular Innovation Grants support projects including major curricular revisions for departments or programs, curricular innovations, and individual or team proposals to work on a specific course.

20 May 2025 Posted In:
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Carleton’s Office of the Provost has announced this year’s Curricular Innovation Grants (CIG), awarded to faculty for the summer of 2025 or winter break of 2025–26 by the Faculty Curricular Planning Committee (FCPC) or Ethical Inquiry at Carleton (EthIC). These grants from the Curricular Innovation Fund support projects including major curricular revisions for departments or programs, curricular innovations, and individual or team proposals to work on a specific course.

Faculty Curricular Planning Committee Grants

  • Sarah Anthony (French and Francophone studies) and Vera Coleman (Spanish): to support the development of a training program for language TAs in French and Spanish, with the goal of improving student learning and promoting inclusion in French and Spanish language courses.
  • Lin Deng and Shaohua Guo (Asian languages and literatures): to develop online placement testing and update language learning tools for beginning and intermediate Chinese language courses.
  • Steven Drew (chemistry): to develop a laboratory course on the chemistry of renewable energy.
  • Jade Hoyer ’07 and Conor McGrann (art and art history) and Rachel Horness (chemistry): to support the project, “The Chemistry of Lithography: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Printmaking Art.”
  • Jake Morton (classics) and Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh (mathematics and statistics): to design the interdisciplinary course, Mathematics and the Ancient Mediterranean World.
  • Anna Rafferty (computer science): to support collaborative work with computer science faculty on reenvisioning peer instruction in introductory computer science.
  • Kaz Skubi ’11 and Chris Calderone (chemistry): to support collaborative work on designing a greener organic chemistry teaching lab.
  • Christina Farhart (political science and international relations) and Ethan Struby (economics): to support the development of a new interdisciplinary course on political and economic beliefs.

Ethical Inquiry Grants

  • Chielo Eze (Africana studies): to design a new syllabus as part of ongoing revision of the Africana studies program curriculum.
  • Chumie Juni (religion): to develop the new course, Religion and Food.

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