Funding Opportunities

UTA Libraries is proud to announce several grants for Faculty who wish to use the library as a resource in the courses they teach here at the university. They include the UTA CARES Grant for open educational resources, the Experiential Learning Faculty Fellowship program, and the Faculty Teaching in the Archives Grant.

The UTA Coalition for Alternative Resources in Education for Students (CARES) Grant Program was established in 2017 to support educators interested in practicing open education through the adoption of OER and, when no suitable open resource is available, through the creation of new OER or the adoption of library-licensed or other free content.  Additionally, the program promotes innovation in teaching and learning through the exploration of open educational practices, such as collaborating with students to produce educational content of value to a wider community.

The grant has multiple categories to support projects of different complexity levels. Grants include: 

  • Affordable Adoption Stipends – to adopt existing no-cost or low-cost materials 

  • OER Modification Grants – to remix and customize published OER 

  • OER Creation Grants – to create and publish a unique OER 

Apply to UTA CARES

Fellows will have the opportunity to work with our Experiential Learning Librarians and other experts in the library to create or redesign curricula or assignments to include experiential or project-based learning components that utilize library resources.

The goal of this program is to support student success by uniting your expertise in course content, our expertise in experiential learning curriculum design, and the libraries’ resources and technologies that build the transferable skills of our students. The fellowship includes a $1,500 stipend.

Program Requirements

  • Faculty must be willing to collaborate closely with Experiential Learning Librarians.
  • The course should be taught regularly (yearly, every semester, etc.).
  • Faculty should be willing to have their curriculum shared through open access venues.
  • Faculty should be willing to present their work at a campus-wide presentation, a blog post for the Libraries, and at least one professional conference and/or publication in collaboration with library staff.

Apply to Faculty Fellowship

We invite faculty who would like to design or invigorate an undergraduate or graduate course with unique content from UTA Libraries Special Collections to apply for this grant opportunity. Preference will be given to faculty proposals that utilize African-American primary source materials, or other primary sources that highlight the diversity found within Special Collections' materials, to generate innovative primary source assignments and projects for students.

Apply to Faculty Teaching in the Archives

The Open Initiatives Grant program was first launched in 2022 in order to expand the Libraries’ support of open projects that support teaching and learning, as well as open access publishing. While the UTA CARES Grant only funds projects related to a specific course, the OI Grant considers applications for any project that will yield an openly licensed outcome. 

Apply for a Teaching & Learning OI Grant

Apply for an Open Access APC or BPC Grant 

Have Another Idea?

If you have a project that doesn’t fit into one of these grants, please reach out to us at LIBRARY-OI-GRANT@LISTSERV.UTA.EDU.