Lisa Nakamura and Sara Blair, American Culture | 2019-2020 We propose to: 1. create 3 new small seminar, experimental undergraduate LSA courses that use extended and virtual reality (XR/VR) to represent, analyze, and critique current and historical experiences of racial, gender, and social inequality; 2. create new XR/VR technical support, course development, and XR/VR reserve…
Grant Category: NINI Grant
Bringing New Learning Techniques and Instructional Technologies to Interdisciplinary Education in Redesigning the Introduction to International Studies.
amarcum, International and Comparative Studies, Program in (PICS) | 2018-2019
Experiential Learning in the Kitchen: A new dimension to MIDEAST 209 Food and Drink in the Middle East
Gottfried Hagen, Near Eastern Studies | 2018-2019 Food and drink are fundamental to human existence. They provide sustenance, meaning, memory, and identity, and they can even be delicious. This course explores the social and cultural history of food and drink, in the Middle East–an area fundamental to human history and in the contemporary world. As…
Development Grant for “Section One” of English 344, Writing for Publication/Public Writing, and its Integration with Departmental Website and Communications
zemgulys, English Language and Literature | 2018-2019
Inclusive Teaching and Mastery Assessment in Mathematics
glarose, Mathematics | 2016-2017
Instructional Coaching: A Community-based Approach to Inclusive STEM Teaching
gshultz, Chemistry | 2018-2019
Transformation of Health Sciences Scholars Program Core Curriculum toward Team- and Problem-Based Learning, Interprofessional Education, and Humanism
eickmeya, Health Science Scholars Program (HSSP) | 2018-2019
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NAME TEST, Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies Program | 2019-2020 ABSTRACT TEST
“Our World: CCLC” – Building a DEI / Cultural Competency Learning Community (CCLC)
Michael Nayor, Ph.D., Comprehensive Studies Program | 2019-2020 The assumption that having a strong background in a narrow discipline, competency in a specific cultural demographic, or wanting to be sensitive specifically to under-represented groups, gender/orientations, and abilities, equates to “being” so, is a challenging concern for Higher Education, specifically as the need for interdisciplinary problem-solving,…
TRANSFORMING THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST FOR THE MODERN MIDWEST: STUDENT-CENTERED CURRICULA REVISIONS (A NINI GRANT PROPOSAL)
Brian Schmidt – Middle East Studies, Near Eastern Studies | 2019-2020 I submit this NINI proposal in response to both the College’s call and my department’s goals for instructors to implement innovative ways of engaging students with new course content, new course methods, and new experiential opportunities to enhance student initiated, active learning, inclusiveness and…

