Funding for Accepted SoTL Presentations

CETL will sponsor a limited amount of travel funding for faculty whose Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) has been accepted for presentation at disciplinary or interdisciplinary conferences.  

Highest priority is given to those projects that adhere to good practices for SoTL (Felten, 2013).

For these purposes, CETL defines SoTL as:

systematic and/or reflective inquiry into student learning and/or teaching in higher education which involves methodologically sound application of appropriate research methods, peer review, and distribution as scholarly work.

 

Application Process, Eligibility, and Criteria

  • You may submit an application at any time, provided you have been accepted to the conference for which you are applying. Applicants will be notified of a decision within one week of the application deadline.

    For Fiscal Year 2026, we will review applications for travel ending between June 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026 four times per year according to the following deadlines:

    April 28, 2025
    August 25, 2025
    November 3, 2025
    February 2, 2026

  • An applicant can apply for travel funds for up to $2,000. 

  • To be considered, applicants must provide proof of their acceptance to present at the conference. Conference presentation funds are not retroactive.
     
    Applications will be reviewed utilizing the evaluation rubric. Highest priority for funding is given to:

    • Proposals that represent original SoTL projects as defined above. SoTL projects may use quantitative or qualitative approaches appropriate to the discipline but must adhere to IRB guidelines for research involving human participants when applicable;
    • Proposals for conferences that are international or national in scope;
    • Faculty who are serving as lead author on the proposal;
    • Faculty who have not recently received SoTL Travel Funds. 

    Proposals from faculty who are not the lead author on the session, have recently received travel funds, or for those who are presenting teaching-related sessions that do not adhere to the definition of SoTL above will be considered but will receive lower priority for funding. Applicants should ensure that their applications demonstrate their work clearly for an interdisciplinary audience.

  • All KSU full-time, contracted faculty members are eligible for this program.
    1. Complete the InfoReady application by filling in all required fields and include any file attachments (e.g., your proof of acceptance to the conference).
    2. After you submit your application, it will automatically route to your immediate supervisor for approval.
    3. Application will be reviewed.
    4. Applicants will receive notifications if they are awarded or not awarded.
    5. Applicant will then submit Concur Travel Request, including the following approvals from CETL
      • Miacko Thompson
      • Christina Ujj
      • Michele DiPietro (shows up as Michele Di Pietro in Concur)
      • Carmen Skaggs

    You will receive an e-mail confirmation upon receipt. If you do not receive the confirmation e-mail, please contact CETL at cetl@kennesaw.edu. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the proposal was received by the deadline.

  • Felten, P. (2013). Principles of good practice in SoTL. Teaching and Learning Inquiry,1(1), 121–125. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.1.1.121

Contact Us

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Hillary Steiner

Position:
Associate Director for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Psychological Science

Phone: (470) 578-6147
Email: hsteiner@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3211