Glennan Fellowships

A fellowship application consists of two parts: an online form and a PDF submission. The application deadline has now passed for the 2024-2025 award cycle.

Part 1: online form

Complete an online form that provides UCITE with necessary contact information. The Glennan Fellowship Application Form is linked here.
Part 2: PDF submission

Compile the following documents in the order below into one PDF, and submit your materials using the Glennan Fellowship Application Form. The PDF should be no longer than ten pages.

1. Cover Letter (one page):  Describe your teaching and research accomplishments, and discuss why you feel this is the appropriate time in your career as a professional educator to receive grant funding. Include your full name, faculty title, and department at the bottom.
2. Project Summary (one page, maximum 300 words):  Identify the objectives and outcomes for the proposed project, and explain how the project will positively affect student learning.
3. Project Proposal (maximum four pages)
4. Budget (one page):  The budget should be signed by your department chair or associate dean. An example budget is shown here.
5. Curriculum Vitae (one page)
6. Recommendation Letters (two letters, one page each): Include two signed recommendation letters from faculty colleagues. The letters should highlight the scholarly excellence and teaching excellence that make the nominee worthy of a fellowship award.

Proposals can contain provisions for faculty summer salary, student help, software, limited travel, and supplies. The total budget cannot exceed $6,500 and must conform to the rules of the proposer's department and school, as well as those of the university. Fringe benefits must be included for all faculty salaries, where required by department, but there is no overhead.

Purchases of equipment and computers are discouraged, unless strongly motivated by an innovative proposal idea. The proposal author is responsible for checking with the appropriate entities to make sure that all of the budget items meet the various criteria before submitting the budget. Failure to do so may result in payments not being approved or reimbursements being denied. UCITE's approval is based on the project and does not imply that the items conform to all university rules.

The cohort will meet once per month during the fall and spring semesters, for a total of 4 meetings per semester. Meetings are scheduled based on participants’ availability.

At the end of each academic year, Glennan Award recipients will give a short public presentation at the UCITE Teaching and Learning Colloquium.

Within two months after the award period ends, the grant recipient must file a report with UCITE (approximately 300 words) that contains project accomplishments, including impact on student learning. The report will be published in UCITE’s annual report.

Recipients must also file a brief summary of budget expenditures to be kept on file.

Any resulting publications and presentations should acknowledge the support of UCITE. For example, “The author of this publication received financial support from a CWRU UCITE Glennan Award for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.” Please submit electronic copies of any publications.

Glennan Award recipients may be invited to record brief comments about their project for the UCITE website or other university publicity purposes