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LTI-CUL-004
Secure joint transfer-focused grants to fund collaborative curriculum alignment
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearwith adaptationFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation
Mechanism
Going after a shared federal or foundation grant forces the two institutions to write down joint goals and deliverables. The grant then holds both of them to it.
Preconditions
Grant office capacity and research support at both institutions.
Owner, by role
Director of Grants and Sponsored Research / Academic Dean
Who can act
Both institutions jointly
Effort
Large, 12 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Grant funding awarded; gateway science majors articulated
Failure modes
Grant-funded projects can stall if key principal investigators leave the institutions, leaving no institutionalized pathways behind.
Contra-indications
None stated
Related practices
- LTI-CUL-005 Conduct joint multi-day summer training institutes for active learning integration