Curriculum Development Grants
CSE supports curriculum development projects that advance sustainability or climate change learning outcomes in new and revised courses, co-curricular activities, and extra-curricular activities, and that require more resources than are normally available. Examples of teaching projects that have high resource needs include incorporating active learning pedagogies such as living laboratory, service learning, community-based research and place-based learning; new technology; and substantial curricular changes and innovation.
Professional Development Grants
Professional development projects enhance or develop new knowledge, expertise or skills that will enable the recipient to advance sustainability or climate change related teaching, research, creativity and civic engagement. Stipends are not paid for professional development projects.
Student Faculty Research Project Grants
Projects in any discipline that engage a student and faculty member as co-investigators or co-creators in a significant, collaborative research activity, scholarly project, or creative work to advance understanding of sustainability or climate change. The project should aim to result in a peer-reviewed publication, presentation, exhibition, performance or other scholarly output. Both the student and faculty role must be substantial at every stage of the project. Projects normally take place in the summer when there is enough time for students and faculty to focus in a concentrated way on a shared project. They usually last 8 weeks, but in some circumstances may be shorter.
Research Assistantships
Research assistantships enable faculty members to hire individual students to assist in faculty scholarly and creative research in areas related to sustainability and climate change. Student research assistants have less responsibility than a co-investigator or co-creator in a student/faculty project and perform tasks that are largely defined and closely supervised by the faculty member.