Deadline to Apply: October 17, 2025, 5pm
Award Amount: $2000 per project
Project Period: Academic Year 2025–2026
The Office of the Cross Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Adaptive Edge Institute invite proposals from course instructors at Illinois State University to participate in a collaborative, multi-context SoTL initiative centered on the following question: "How is GenAI being used/not used, understood, and/or integrated in higher education settings, and what are its implications for teaching and learning at ISU?"
This hub-and-spoke SoTL project will bring together instructors from across Illinois State’s diverse teaching contexts to investigate how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) are shaping student learning, instructor decision-making, course design, and academic engagement.
It is hoped that this focused, collaborative project will help Illinois State lead national conversations about the pedagogical and ethical dimensions of GenAI. Join us in shaping a thoughtful, research-informed approach to AI in higher education.
Selected instructors will serve as “spoke” investigators, each designing and implementing a small-scale SoTL study within their own course or academic support setting. Projects should explore students' and/or instructors’ experiences, practices, or outcomes related to GenAI.
All investigators will:
Awardees will receive:
Each proposal (2 pages max) should include:
Submit your proposal as a single PDF to Dr. Jennifer Friberg (jfribe@ilstu.edu) by Friday October 17, 2025, 5 pm. Questions about the grant program should also be emailed to Dr. Friberg.