Competitive funding is available to support faculty efforts to advance assessment innovation within a program/department (up to $1,000 per proposal). Funds can be used for professional development, summer re-contracting, as matching funds, and/or for hourly graduate student support. Faculty are encouraged to consider planning for the infusion of equitable teaching, learning and assessment practices throughout the curriculum to impact all students.

Funding opportunity is ongoing. For more details, and to learn about whether your assessment project can be considered for funding, please email assess@uri.edu.

2023/2024 Assessment Innovation Mini-Grants: Program Assessment using Brightspace: Investigating Options

This mini-grant program, sponsored by ATL Assessment Office in collaboration with the ITS Teaching and Learning Services, and co-facilitated by Professor Jenny Jones (English), successfully recruited seven academic programs (nine faculty participants) to join a year-long pilot investigation of the URI learning management system, Brightspace, for program assessment.

• Program flyer here; program description here.
• Program and faculty participants:

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2023 Assessment Innovation Mini-Grant Recipients

• Virginia Killian Lund, Peter Adamy, Sandy Hicks, Cathy Semnoski, Sara Sweetman, Elementary Education and the College of Education: Integrating a Reflective Portfolio Assessment Tool in Elementary Education Teacher Preparation
• Amanda Missimer, Ingrid Lofgren, Department of Nutrition: The Discovery of Micronutrients: An Untold, Unethical History of Human Research
• Joesph Nardolillo, Britny Brown, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research: Assessment of Pharmacy Curricular Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-related Topics and Care for Marginalized Communities

For inspiration from past mini-grant recipients or questions about submitting a proposal, please email: assess@uri.edu.