Collective Scholar application information: Teaching & Learning Scholar projects don’t require the time and resources of our Faculty Fellowships. Funding for Scholar projects will vary based on the scope of the proposal and the Collective’s available budget. We encourage creativity, imagination, and experimentation, but the primary objective is to benefit teaching on Rider’s campus. If you’ve got a project you want to pursue that can do that, then we want to help you out.

Below is a list of possible Teaching Learning Scholar projects. We will give special consideration to projects that reinforce the two pillars the Collective will focus on this year: High Impact Teaching and Experiential Learning and Teaching with Emerging Technology. This list is neither exhaustive nor prescriptive, but we hope that it allows you to brainstorm and consider a wide range of possibilities.

  • Reading groups: working through a text together
  • Affinity groups: regular meetings of faculty centered around a shared purpose
  • Research/white paper: semester- or year-long dive into an emerging pedagogical topic that will educate/enrich other faculty
  • Collective Imagining: proposals for future programs/initiatives the Collective can undertake
  • Trial Runs: testing a new approach in the classroom that could have implications across campus
  • Classmates: a handful of faculty enroll in the same online course and meet regularly to discuss
  • Campus Mapping: the creation of resource guides to help faculty connect students to resources available on campus
  • Open classroom: distinguished teaching faculty who welcome colleagues to observe their classroom on designated days
  • Liaisons: faculty who seek out effective teaching strategies in their own departments and colleges, and amplify them for the benefit of the wider university community
  • Grants: faculty who search for grants for the Collective and assist in writing proposals
  • Stuff n Things: ideas you have that will benefit teaching on campus but that don’t fit neatly into anything we’ve outlined here

Submit your Fall 2026 project proposal

Submission deadline is July 17. Proposals will be evaluated on clarity, feasibility, institutional needs, and scale.