Faculty Course Modification Incentive Grants

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The request for proposals from UMaine STEM Instructors for the 2022-2023 academic year is now closed. Stay tuned for the request for proposals for 2023-2024 next year!

The 2022-2023 FIG-MLA award recipients are:

Alice Doughty – ERS 101 Introduction to Earth Sciences
Jennifer Newell-Caito – BMB 208 Elementals of Physiological Chemistry
MacKenzie Stetzer – PHY 236 Introductory Quantum Physics
Liping Yu – PHY 241 Computational Physics

Congratulations to all and thank you for all of your hard work!

Faculty Course Modification Incentive Grants are available for University of Maine  instructors interested in incorporating new teaching practices into their science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics (STEM) courses. We encourage you to email us with your interests (figmla@maine.edu).

Documents related to the FIG-MLA Program:

FIG-MLA 2022-2023 Request for Proposals (Word and PDF)

FIG-MLA 2019-2020 Letter of Intent and Proposal Information
FIG-MLA Information Session Presentation from Spring 2017
FIG-MLA Examples of Course Modifications from Spring 2017
MLA recruitment packet for FIG faculty

Grant awardees receive the following:

  • $2500 during each summer that the grant is awarded (up to two years).
  • Assistance from two or more Maine Learning Assistants (undergraduate teaching assistants who are majoring in a STEM discipline and who have performed well in the course being modified).
  • Assistance from the RiSE Center community (faculty, staff, and graduate students) who can help plan assessment and data collection strategies.
  • Contact with other UMaine faculty who are engaged in the same endeavor.

Award grantees are expected to:

  • Utilize MLAs in classes, recitations, tutorials, workshops or labs to facilitate small group discussions or support individual students in learning the material.
  • Meet weekly with MLAs to review the content or plan instruction or data collection.
  • Submit annual reports about the progress of their course modification goals and findings.
  • Explore funding options within their own department to sustain the FIG-MLA course modification and use of MLAs.

Funding

  • At this time the program is funded in large part by the office of Academic Affairs. Through this program funding, the RiSE Center covers approximately 65% of the costs of the MLAs. Typically, departments and/or colleges provide the remaining cost of each MLA (about ⅓ of the cost).

 

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For more information or any questions about the FIG-MLA Program, please contact us at figmla@maine.edu.

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Recent publications: coming soon!