The scholarship of teaching, learning, and assessment is a form of scholarship that makes our work public and available to the wider teaching community for faculty members' mutual continued learning about their teaching. The scholarship focuses on student learning and involves using evidence of student learning to improve the scholar's teaching and students' learning.

TLA Travel Grants

Faculty members are invited to apply for grants (capped at $750) to travel to conferences where they will present on teaching, learning, and assessment. The deadline for fall is February 15. 
After the deadline, we will review applications on a rolling basis while funds remain. 

Please remember to include description of the presentation you'll be making that clearly indicates how it conforms to the expectations regarding the scholarship of teaching, learning and assessment.

Faculty funded to travel to conferences will be asked to publish their presentation materials on the TLA website. (Application may be made in anticipation of acceptance, but funding will only be approved provisionally, pending acceptance of proposal.) 

Please note that if approved applications for this semester’s Travel Grants exceed the funds available, priority will be given to those faculty who did not receive a TLA grant during Academic Year 2011-12. 

BEFORE YOU TRAVEL!!!

If you are planning CSU funded travel, please see your department's administrative coordinator before making travel arrangements to assure you are properly reimbursed.

To be sure your expenses are reimbursable, please read the policy before you book.

When your grant is approved: You must use our CSU travel agent. You must have completed Defensive Driving training to be reimbursed for mileage.

"The Travel Expense Claim must be submitted to the campus Travel Reimbursement office within 30 days of the end of a trip..."

Read the CSU travel policy here.

TLA Travel Grant Application.

Listed here are some examples of successful travel grant applications:

Karen Davis  
Strains of Resistance: Strategies for Writing Instruction in the Visual/Media Arts
Presented at the 11th CSU Regional Symposium on University Teaching, Pomona, April 2008.

Nick Meier and Carolina Serna       
Preparing Pre-service Teachers to work with English Language Learners   
Presented at the California Council on Teacher Education, San Jose, March, 2008.

Sandra Pacheco   
Transforming Students' Conceptions of Feminism: The use of service learning to promote social responsibility       
Presented at the Association for Women in Psychology, San Diego, March, 2008.

Robert Strayer      
Teaching the Twentieth Century in World Histroy    
Presented at the California World History Association, San Francisco. November, 2008.

Bude Su   
learner-learner interaction in online learning environment  
Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA) in New York City, March 2008.

Scott Waltz
Students writing themselves into social-cultural awareness, identity and action: Teaching practices for the Social Foundations classroom   
Presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference, Savannah, Georgia, October 2008

Maria  Zielina   
Encounters and Departures: Africania studies in the Americas
Conference VIII Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, Chile, 2008 

Posted by Becky Rosenberg on Jan 25, 2013 -