Community Engagement Awards - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Community Engagement AwardsOverviewThe Community Engagement Award (formerly the FASS Teaching Development Award, TDA) is available to individuals who are undertaking a major pedagogical advancement that clearly extends beyond the routine development of course materials. Up to two awards, with a maximum value of $4000 per award, will be supported each year. Please note that these awards are not supported by an endowment or a base budget, and thus depend on the Office of the Dean having discretionary funds available in any given year.Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must hold a regular faculty appointment (i.e. Instructors through to Full Professors) AND at least 50% of their appointment must be in FASS.

Beginning in 2018, faculty members are eligible to receive the award once per academic rank.

Eligible faculty can submit applications for the Research Excellence, Community Engagement and Excellence in Teaching in the same year but can hold only one of these Awards per cycle.

ApplicationsApplications must include:

A proposal (maximum of 5 pages) including a statement of teaching philosophy and plans on how the Award will be used to advance teaching. The plan should address items such as engagement of students, HIPs (High-Impact Practices), experiential learning and internationalization of curriculum. For previous FASS TDA recipients, a brief statement summarizing the impact of the previous Award on your teaching is required.

A brief statement (maximum of 1 page) commenting on the relationship between teaching and research activities and/or advancement of pedagogy (as applicable) and the integration of teaching with departmental, Faculty and University goals

A budget proposal and justification (maximum of 1 page)

Teaching evaluation reports produced by OIRP of all courses taught over the previous 3 to 5 years and a list of graduate students supervised (if applicable).

A current curriculum vitae must be appended to the application.Student testimonials are not to be included in the application package.All parts of the application must be contained in a single file, starting with the application, followed by the budget proposal, teaching evaluation reports and the applicant’s CV. The application package must be emailed to fass.awards@carleton.ca by Thursday, January 30th, 2025.Applications will be adjudicated by the Executive of the Faculty Board, based on the:

Candidate’s demonstrated teaching record, and

Overall quality of the proposed research project.

Conditions of the AwardAward winners will be recognized at the FASS annual vin d’honneur celebration and the Award must be applied in the next academic year.Award WinnersView Past TDA Award Recipients

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