The Moore Family Foundation Faculty Development Program for Teaching is providing grant funding for 14 faculty projects at Central College for the 2018-19 academic year.
The funding totals almost $71,000. Individual grants for the 2018-2019 academic year to date average just over $5,000 per grant and range from $3,070 to fund a sabbatical leave for research on relationships to $6,810 to send six faculty members to a workshop on evidence-based teaching.
Other projects include:
-Research on ethnographic writing (faculty/student collaborative research)
-Support for faculty development in biochemistry
-Study of the impact of drought on new prairie plantings (faculty/student collaborative research)
=Synthesis of quinone-based supermolecular structures (faculty/student collaborative research)
=Purchase of 10 iPad Pros to support courses in the exercise science program to enrich the education experience of students
The Moore Family Foundation has provided significant support to the college over the years. Since 2013, 123 Central faculty have written 77 grant proposals and received a total of $346,671 in funding from the Moore Family Foundation Faculty Development Program for Teaching.