campus partner(s)

Northwestern University

state(s)

IL

amount

$85,000

initiative

Graduate Student Teaching in the Arts and Sciences

award date

02.2013

project director

Monica Ann Gerlach

Northwestern University

Grant Summary

$85,000 over 24 months for Northwestern University to implement a program for graduate students in its History Department to prepare for undergraduate teaching. The project aims to achieve this end through workshops, student and faculty reading and discussions groups, as well as an online teaching resource guide, which will be overseen by a faculty advisor and teaching coordinator. The project will work in cooperation with Northwestern’s Graduate School (TGS),  the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, and the American Historical Association.