Save the date for the TLPDC's next AI Mini Conference on Friday, August 22nd! This “back to school” event will help instructors prepare for the fall semester and provide tangible strategies for teaching in a world of AI overload. This opportunity is for those with any level of exposure to AI tools. Whether you have little experience or you’ve already integrated AI into your course, we hope to provide strategies, resources, and support to instructors on all points of the spectrum of AI learning.

Details about sessions and speakers are forthcoming, but registration is open now.  Stay tuned for updates on the conference webpage during the summer for the full agenda. While this event is designed to be face-to-face, we understand that many faculty are working outside of Lubbock. Please reach out to the TLPDC if you need to join remotely.

Register today!

(posted 4/28)

The 2025 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Mini-Grants support instructors who are interested in thoughtfully integrating generative AI into teaching, assessment practices, faculty workflows, or cross-disciplinary collaboration for the 2025–2026 academic year. The purpose of the mini-grant is to encourage formal investigations of the impact of AI on teaching and learning that can be disseminated to TTU and broader academic communities. Special consideration will be given to proposals that are empirical in nature, including formal data collection and analysis procedures.

Dissemination of findings is another important component of the grant. Recipients will be required to lead a TLPDC workshop to share their work and/or write a Small Bytes post (the blog supported by the AI Resources and Guidelines Committee).

Grants are available to all full-time faculty (full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty, full-time professor of practices, or full-time lecturers) in the amount of $2000 to be paid on August 31st, 2025. Recipients who publish this work in the 2025-2026 academic year as SoTL peer-reviewed scholarship will receive an additional $1000 bonus upon publication.

Submit a proposal by 11:59 p.m. on May 28, 2025 outlining the project goals, expected outcomes, and intended plan for incorporating generative AI into the curriculum. Special consideration will be given to proposals that have promise for publication in a SoTL journal or discipline specific peer-reviewed publication. Document should not exceed 6 pages.

Please submit to the AI Resources and Guidelines Committee in a PDF format via email to Suzanne Tapp (Assistant Vice Provost, Faculty Success and TLPDC Director).

Review requirements

(posted 4/3)

Calling All Faculty! Win a $2,500 grant through the Faculty C-Startup Program!

The Texas Tech Innovation Hub is looking for faculty to become ambassadors for innovation and entrepreneurship in ANY department or college within the Texas Tech University System. The Faculty C-Startup Program empowers these ambassadors by providing a $2,500 grant to support entrepreneurial education.

To be eligible, you must be Texas Tech System faculty with a course offered a minimum of once per year. Apply by submitting the course syllabus, a one-page narrative describing the learning objectives, and a 150-word bio and headshot. Ready to apply? Submit the application through our program portal.

Don't wait! Applications close on Monday, May 19, 2025. Learn more and apply today at innovationhub.ttu.edu or contact Mrs. Ryan Bain at ryan.m.bain@ttu.edu for details.

(posted 3/24)

The Engaged Scholarship Symposium, originally scheduled, for March 27 has been cancelled due to campus closures, and will be rescheduled for a new date in Fall '25. A new date will be announced soon. For further questions, please contact Alexandria Fontana at the Office of Outreach and Engagement.

The event will highlight multi-disciplinary programs and initiatives that are designed to foster and sustain mutually beneficial partnerships between the university and external communities for lasting societal impact. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with engaged scholars from across the university while also connecting with potential community partners.

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)  started in 1915, was instrumental in establishing main principles of shared governance in academia, still in place today. 

Texas Tech University Chapter was established in December of 2021 to serve ALL of its faculty involved in teaching and research- tenure-track, non-tenure track, full-time and part-time, as well as graduate TAs.  

As academic freedom is increasingly under attack on campuses throughout our country,  we work hard on behalf of our faculty to protect their freedom to speak up and to choose what to teach. 

Join your colleagues at Texas Tech University in speaking out and defending what's important to YOU.