The document discusses two grant programs managed by a center for teaching and learning to promote excellence in student learning. It outlines the center's process for developing guidelines, requirements, and systems to evaluate the purposes, topics, activities, and outcomes of funded projects. The center analyzed grant reports and found improvements in student learning, grades, and test scores as well as lower failure rates in courses impacted by the grants.

1. Gauging the Effectiveness of Instructional and Institutional Development Grants Lynda Milne Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Center for Teaching & Learning POD Network Conference, Pittsburgh October 26, 2007

2. Our center, like many, has a long history of awarding grants to faculty. In this session we will discuss two grant programs and the systems we developed to categorize and analyze data about the purposes, topic areas, activities, and outcomes of grant projects.

3. Acknowledgements David Laverny-Rafter CTL Faculty Project Specialist Professor, Political Science Minnesota State University, Mankato Thomas Wortman Assistant Director for Grant Programs Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Center for Teaching and Learning

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