Faculty Grants

Please make a copy of the relevant application form and email the completed application to bcte@transy.edu. If you are using a Google Doc for your application, please share the file with Melissa Fortner and Julie Perino. The bcte email account is unable to open shared documents.

Available Applications

Technology Support Grant

• Due Date: Reviewed Weekly

• Click here to access the application

  • These grants help meet faculty technological needs that arise incidentally throughout the year. For instance, faculty can apply for this grant to help purchase hardware (i.e. adapters, tripods, etc.), software (applications or mobile apps), or some combination thereof to enhance teaching. These grants are designed to be minor, one-time expenses to complement program instructional budgets. Faculty can apply more than once in a fiscal year for up to $1,000 combined. 

Professional Development Grant

• Due Date: Reviewed weekly

• Click here to make a copy of the application

  • Faculty can apply for grant funds up to $1,500 to attend pedagogical conferences and workshops, for transportation, lodging, and registration fees. Faculty are only eligible for one grant of this kind per academic year.

Potential Opportunities

For your information, we will have several grants that can be applied for during the 2024-2025 school year for work to be completed Summer 2025 or 2025-2026. The Bingham Board meets in November 2024, at which point we will get final approval for our newly-designed grants program. We will update this space at that time and advertise. So that you can start thinking about possible projects, below is a list of our previous grant opportunities, many of which will continue in some form. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk over your ideas.

Collaborative Project Teams

• • Collaborative Project Teams will develop a year-long project in some area of the Digital Liberal Arts (i.e. data visualization, artificial intelligence, VR, a podcast series, digital mapping, media literacy, digital culture, digital interfacing, app design, or other areas of digital inquiry). Grants will fund up to $6,000 for stipends, equipment, training, materials, travel, etc. Teams must be composed of faculty from at least two different divisions and may include staff and/or students, for 3-5 members total. 

Pedagogical Course Development Grant

• • Pedagogical course development grants will support developing a new course, or re-engineering an existing course with a substantially new pedagogical focus or method. Grants provide up to $1,000 stipend and $1,500 for materials.

Digital Course Development Grant

• • Digital course development grants will support the infusion of digital methods or focus for a new or existing course. Grants provide up to $1,000 stipend and $1,500 for materials.

Faculty Research Grant

• • Faculty can apply for up to $4,000 in grant funds to support the use of technology in scholarly research or creative work. These funds will be used to purchase equipment (i.e., drones for aerial photography or data acquisition, CNC router/computer, 3D printers, high-quality camera equipment, audio recording equipment, etc.), buy software packages, fund training sessions, pay for maker space membership fees, hire professional services for documentation or data acquisition, fund student workers, or pay consultant fees.