Campuses
•UM-Crookston
•UM-Duluth
•UM-Morris
•UM-Twin Cities

Resources
•Design-Based Research (pdf)
•SoTL Conferences (pdf)
•Engaging Student Learners
•Evaluation Toolkit (pdf)
•Model Survey (pdf)

Archives
•2004-2008 Grant (pdf)
•Call For Proposals (pdf)
•Exec. Summary Year-1 2006 (pdf)
•Publication and Present List (pdf)
•2001-2004 Grant (pdf)

Sponsors
•Archibald Bush Foundation
•CTL
•DMC

Contact Us
•Bush Grant Coordinator

The Archibald Bush Foundation has awarded the University of Minnesota system a three-year grant to enhance student learning through innovative teaching and technology strategies.

Each of the campuses has selected a unique focus for its efforts.

UM-Crookston
Promoting High Quality Collaborative Learning
Campus Coordinator: Marilyn Grave

UM-Duluth
Developing Reflective Practioners and Self-Regulated Learners
Campus Coordinator: Bilin Tsai

UM-Morris
Engaging Students by Teaching to Multiple Learning Styles
Campus Coordinator: Engin Sungur

UM-Twin Cities
Promoting Student Learning in Large Classes
Campus Coordinating Team

In proposing programming for the grant, the campuses are using the following three goals to unite their efforts and the design of specific program activities:

Goal 1: Align grant efforts with current campus initiatives to keep student learning in the forefront.

Goal 2: Foster a scholarly and collaborative approach to addressing student learning issues.

Goal 3: Integrate the assessment of student learning and the evaluation of student learning initiatives in the campus mainstream.

View the Bush grant 2004-2007 (PDF) to find out more about the learning issue each campus has selected for its focus, the design of the project proposed to address the issue, and the three-year implmentation plan.

View a list of publications and presentations by Bush grant participants since they joined the grant .

2001-2004

The University of Minnesota in conjunction with the Bush Foundation supported a three-year initiative entitled Innovative Teaching and Technology Strategies. The program fostered the development of faculty perspectives and skills for integrating innovative teaching practices, including new developments in technology-enhanced learning, to address problems of student learning. This program extended a long history of faculty development initiatives in innovative teaching and learning, supported in part by the Bush Foundation, and added to recent University investments in technology-enhanced learning.

View the first Bush grant: 2001-2004 grant (PDF).