Travel Grants and Awards – APSA Teaching and Learning Conference 2027

The Brintnall Award helps college attendance on the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference. The award is known as in honor of former APSA Executive Director, Michael Brintnall, who was deeply dedicated to advancing the scholarship of instructing and studying within the self-discipline.

Eligibility: Contingent college, non-tenure monitor college, and college whose departments don’t present journey assist are significantly inspired to use. Priority consideration is given to an applicant that: is presenting on the convention, is a first-time attendee, and on the bottom degree of the earnings scale for APSA membership. Applications ought to embody a CV and 1 – 2 web page private assertion.

The award carries a money prize of $300.

The APSA Award for Teaching Innovation honors a variety of recent instructions in instructing.

Eligibility: Self-nominations are accepted. Nominees do not need to be members of APSA, affiliated with an establishment within the United States, or an American citizen with a purpose to be thought-about for an award. Examples of eligible nominations embody a professor that used an revolutionary course syllabus or a brand new multimedia method to reaching college students. All submissions ought to embody:

• Personal assertion (written by the nominee) detailing the instructing innovation, its affect, and why this innovation deserves this honor.
• Letter of nomination from nominating college (if related), briefly summarizing the instructing innovation and its affect, and explaining why it deserves this honor
• Other supporting paperwork of nominee and/or nominator’s selecting.

The award carries a money prize of $500.

APSA is happy to supply journey grants to help students in attending the 2027 APSA Teaching & Learning Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Eligibility: All attendees are eligible; nevertheless, first-time attendees, graduate college students, unemployed members, worldwide students, neighborhood school college, and contingent college will probably be prioritized, as will assembly presenters.