CNDLS offers various grant opportunities for faculty members, programs, and departments.

Curriculum Enrichment Grants

Georgetown Learning Initiative (GLI) grants for curriculum enrichment support class-related activities that strengthen the intellectual climate around the undergraduate curriculum. Typically awarded each semester, these grants are intended to help faculty and students to take advantage of the resources of the larger community and to give students in introductory classes a richer sense of the broader implications and applications of work in that particular discipline. Events funded by these grants could include museum visits, musical and theatrical performances, lectures, cultural dinners, and many other sorts of activities designed to foster dialogue inside and outside the classroom and to influence class discussion and understanding of course material going forward.

For more information, including details on how to apply, please visit this page.

Assessment Grants

Program-Level Assessment Grants are intended to support individual programs and departments in the gathering, analysis, and application of findings of direct evidence of student learning. The intent of these grants is to help departments and programs “close the loop” on their curriculum planning and teaching by looking at student work or other evidence of student achievement across courses or an entire major, in order to make use of that evidence in decisions about improvement.

The Senior Writing Assessment Project builds on our commitment to assess the quality of student writing campus-wide. Teams of faculty members will focus on specific writing samples from students in their departments and programs in order to generate student learning data that will help us to identify efforts we might pursue to improve Georgetown’s writing curriculum.

For more information about assessment grants, please contact Daryl Nardick.