LEO Inclusive Teaching Grant and Program

LEO Inclusive Teaching 

The LEO Inclusive Teaching Grant was an important win for all three campuses in the last contract campaign. Recently in negotiations, we secured additional funding for the next three years! This fund can provide lecturers seeking to better engage in inclusive teaching practices up to $1,000 in support for their proposals, and there is a wide range of how one can use the funds. Applications for grants must be submitted on or before May 15th for Dearborn and Ann Arbor campuses, though applications can be submitted at any time if there are funds available at all campuses.

Here are the links for each campus’s description and application forms. Please consider applying:

• Dearborn’s Grant Description, Previous Winners & Application Form 

• Flint’s Grant Description & Application Form

• Ann Arbor’s Grant description & Application Cover Page (Applications must be submitted by e-mail attachment at the address provided on the Application Cover Page)

We heard several examples of how to use Inclusive Teaching Funds, including workshops, webinars, books, conference travel, data sets, guest speakers, compensation for time spent implementing Inclusive Teaching Practices (not to exceed $40 an hour). Some more specific examples from lecturers at last week’s Lunch with LEO were:  

• Registration costs for The 2nd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival on April 24th- https://bit.ly/3dDhWfE

• Funding students to do transcription work to make videos and presentations more accessible. 

• Lecturer stipends for 6 lecturers participation in an Inclusive Teaching study group.

• 2-week curriculum development workshop for Inclusive Teaching at the Learning Academy of the Gardner Institute: https://www.jngi.org/(many opportunities available here)

• A lecturer stipend to prepare materials to help students use cognitive science to improve their studies for students who lack technical preparation due to access.

Here are some additional opportunities for the funds this year (including some April deadlines for digital conferences) and be sure to check out application sites for each campus for more info.

Additionally, this year a separate Inclusive Teaching Program for Lecturers via the CRLT in Ann Arbor will be available to lecturers on all three campuses. Participating lecturers will attend a kick-off workshop in May; modify one of their Fall syllabi this summer in light of the ideas discussed in the workshop and with support from CRLT staff; and in the Fall semester, be part of three teaching circle meetings with CRLT staff and other Lecturers in the program, sharing and problem-solving challenges in the implementation of their new curricula.

Participants receive a stipend of $1000 for completion of the program. Flint, Dearborn, and non-LS&A Lecturers in Ann Arbor should use the LEO Inclusive Teaching Grant to fund this stipend. LS&A has committed to funding the stipends for its Lecturers. Application deadline: Friday, April 23, 2021. You can read the full description and requirements here. Please send any questions to Victoria Genetin at vgenetin@umich.edu.

*In bargaining, we’ve also arrived at a tentative agreement (TA) on MOU 10 -- DEI-Related Initiatives for Lecturers -- which includes the introduction of an Annual Lecturer Excellence in Inclusive Teaching Award. Thanks to the Inclusive LEO Committee for generating and organizing around our DEI proposals.