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Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wig established the “Distinguished
Professorship Endowment Fund” in 1955 to further the teaching mission of the College.
This fund is used to support the Wig Distinguished Professorship Awards, to help subvene sabbatical salaries
and to facilitate the biannual trustee-faculty retreat. It also is used to support pedagogical and curricular innovation through grants for
auditing, course development, teaching innovation, and travel to teaching conferences.
These grants are available to all tenure-track faculty and full-time faculty on
multiyear contracts. Under exceptional circumstances, funds permitting,
applications will be considered from full-time visiting faculty on one-year
appointments.
For Curriculum Development and Teaching Innovation grants, the Teaching &
Learning Committee and Assistant Dean give priority to faculty who will be
developing new courses or substantially revising existing ones, to faculty who
have not recently received a Wig grant, and to junior faculty. In approving
budgets for Curriculum Development grants, they generally observe the following limits:
- $500 for books, videos, and software for any one class
- $1,000 for student assistants for any one class
- $800 for field trips
- $800 for travel expenses
Teaching Innovation grants are generally limited to a total of $600.
Please note that ongoing and regular expenses associated with a class should be
covered by departmental or program budgets. Wig grants are for
one-time costs associated with faculty development in the area of teaching,
developing a new course, extensively revising an old course and making
innovations in an existing course.
Curriculum Development Grants
Teaching Innovation Grants
Travel to Teaching Conferences
Faculty Audit Program
One-on-One Teaching Consultant
Hahn Teaching with Technology Grants
Supplemental Lecture Fund
Scheduled Class Field Trips
Course Evaluation Templates
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