CEL Awards and Grants

This award was established by John P. Schellenberg, Professor Emeritus of Physical Sciences, faculty, alumni, and friends to recognize an early-career faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding work within the mission of the Center for the Engaged Learning (CEL).

Visit the Schellenberg Award page for more information.

The Pedagogical Development Grant’s purpose is to encourage faculty to develop, implement and assess a significantly different approach in their teaching that focuses on improving student learning and instructor effectiveness. While we welcome any innovative approaches, we are particularly interested in projects that intersect with recent CEL topics such as ungrading, metacognition, or trauma-informed teaching practices.

Visit the Pedagogical Development Grant page for more information.

Assessment grants seek to encourage teaching faculty to engage in sound practices in assessing student learning outcomes. First, the funding should be used to support new initiatives and to strengthen ongoing assessment activities. Next, these initiatives should generate models of assessment practices that can be used to inform other assessment efforts. Finally, these grants may serve as "seed money" to support promising pilot projects or the research necessary to prepare externally competitive funding proposals.

Upcoming Assessment Grants information TBA.

The CEL helps facilitate contact with various organizations to identify external funding sources for Humanities, Social Science, and STEM education.

Please visit the External Funding Sources page for more information.

The CEL recognizes a faculty member whose teaching and research defines, inspires, and informs excellence at KU. 

Please visit the Faculty Spotlight page for more information.