(posted 4/17)

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Mini-Grants

2024 Theme: Teaching with AI

Purpose:

The 2024 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) mini-grants support instructors who are interested in implementing generative AI into their teaching for the 2024-2025 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 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, 2024. Recipients who publish this work in the 2024-2025 academic year as SoTL peer-reviewed scholarship will receive an additional $1000 bonus upon publication. 

Requirements:

Selected projects will be required to complete the following:

• Submit a proposal by May 28, 2024 outlining the project goals, expected outcomes, and intended plan for incorporating generative AI into the curriculum. Please include the following information:

  • What is your experience with and interest in generative AI tools? (Note: Prior experience is not required.) 

     

  • What course does your project target?  

     

  • Who are your students and how many do you expect to enroll in your course?  

     

  • Describe your proposed research project. What generative AI tool will you use and how? What parts of your course will be impacted?

     

     

  • How might your use of generative AI enhance student learning?  

     

  • What challenges do you anticipate in terms of student learning?  

     

  • How might this use of generative AI provide opportunities in your course (e.g. support students with different levels of preparation or academic backgrounds, address differences in student outcomes, etc.)?  

     

  • What is your timeline for implementing and completing this project?

• If relevant, please answer additional questions about SoTL scholarship potential:

  • What student course work could you use as data to assess changes in students' learning and/or performance?  

     

  • What other ways could you measure impacts on students?  

     

  • How could you include a control condition or comparison group to measure impacts?  

     

  • Please identify three possible publication outlets for this work. These might include SoTL-specific journals or discipline specific peer-reviewed publications.  

     

  • What is your timeline for implementing and completing this project?  

• Attend two meetings (virtual options will be offered) during the summer of 2024 and two meetings during the fall 2024 to discuss your project with other grant recipients.
• Collect data on faculty and/or student learning gains and outcomes. If you plan to publish your project, IRB approval will likely be required.
• Disseminate your project to TTU colleagues (and beyond) in the following ways:

  • Present at a Fall, 2024 or Spring, 2025 TLPDC teaching session. 

     

  • Write a Small Bytes blog post in either Fall, 2024 or Spring, 2025.

     

  • 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).

(posted 3/27)

2024 Ethics in Teaching & Learning Symposium

At the Ethics in Teaching & Learning (ETL) Symposium, members of the 2023-2024 ETL cohort will present projects they have worked on during the academic year toward addressing an ethical challenge they have identified in their teaching and learning contexts. All are welcome to attend! Breakfast and lunch will be provided for those who register by April 19th.

(posted 1/25)

The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2024: “Value/Values”

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

April 26-27, 2024

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Agnes Callard, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago 

This conference aims to bring together an international group of scholars to interrogate how we assign value (aesthetically, politically, culturally) and to consider the mechanics of evaluation in relationship to values (ideological, moral, ethical) either explicit or unspoken. We will host conversations that engage these concerns through time and across modes of inquiry in the humanities.

Learn more today!

(posted 1/22)

Sexism|Cinema is a feminist film series in Lubbock, Texas. Movies, Conversation, and Activism Since 2015. Join us at Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock on the first Wednesday of every month: February 7 - May 1, 2024.

Daughters of the Dust (1991) | February 7th | 7:30pm

At the dawn of the 20th century, a family in the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina -- former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors' Yoruba traditions -- suffers a generational split. Watch the trailer! 

The Lost King (2022) | March 6, 7:30pm | 7:30pm

Guided by instinct and spectral visions, an ambitious writer and amateur historian defies the academic establishment to unearth Richard III's long-missing remains in a Leicester car park. Watch the trailer! 

She Said (2022) | April 3, 7:30pm | 7:30pm

The New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor publish a report that exposes sexual abuse allegations against powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The shocking story also serves as a launching pad for the #MeToo movement, shattering decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault and harassment. Watch the trailer! 

Joy Ride (2023) | May 1, 7:30pm | 7:30pm

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are. Watch the trailer!

The Sexism|Cinema team has just published the book chapter “Red Carpet Radicals: Public Feminist Scholarship and the Sexism|Cinema Film Series” in the new collection Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community out as an open access publication from Lever Press. You can download the full book by clicking on the link above.

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.