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Grants Incorporating Generative AI With Novel Ideas for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching Excellence offers CTE-IGNITE (Incorporating Generative AI With Novel Ideas for Teaching Excellence) grants. These grants will support faculty as they innovate in instruction to redesign assignments, assessments, modules, or courses. The purpose of CTE-IGNITE is to encourage scholarly teaching around the opportunities and challenges presented by generative AI. Grant funding will be transferred to the grantee's department as professional development funds (PDF) after the project deliverables are submitted to the CTE.

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Project Scope and Professional Development Funding Levels


Level
Title
PD Funds
Scale of Incorporation of Student
Use of GenAI in Redesign
Proposal Word Limit
1
AI-Enhanced Assignment
$200
1-2 assignments
No more than 750 words
2
AI-Augmented Module
$400
1 module (instructional unit, as defined
 by 2-3 weeks of instruction)
No more than 750 words
3
AI-Integrated Course
$1,500
Multiple assignments and assessments
throughout a course
No more than 1500 words

Grant Proposal Instructions


Deadline: October 15, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Notification of 2025-2026 grantees: October 31, 2025

Previous CTE-IGNITE awardees are eligible only for additional awards at higher levels.

Here are the proposal components; we recommend you use them to prepare your submission before entering your responses in the online application. 

Proposer Information

  • Name(s)
  • E-mail address
  • Department(s)

Project Description

  • Project title
  • Funding level
  • Course (prefix and number) and semester
  • Number of students in your course/section

Describe your proposed redesign project in fewer than 750 words total. Please avoid (or define) discipline-specific language. People outside of your field will be reviewing your proposal.

  • What are your goals for the redesign?
  • Which generative AI tools will you incorporate and how?
  • What course goal(s) and/or challenge(s) will be addressed by incorporating student use of AI?
  • How will student learning be improved through your redesign? What measurable learning outcomes will be achieved?
  • How will you assess and evaluate student learning on the redesigned assignment(s) (and assessments, if applicable)? Be sure to describe the student data you will collect and how it will be analyzed.

Level 3 Items Only:

  • What constitutes responsible AI use, what is your AI policy, how does it support your course redesign, and how will you communicate it to students?
  • How does the course redesign support student exploration of AI affordances and limitations?