AI Mini-Grants for Course Integration

The Center for Instructional Design and Educational Technologies, in partnership with the Center for Faculty Excellence, is pleased to announce a continuation of AI Mini-Grants for Course Integration to faculty for the 2025-2026 academic year.

AI Mini-Grants for Faculty

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Ten stipends of $500 will be awarded to faculty as an incentive to develop student-facing instructional units that integrate AI into existing courses, thereby enhancing student "AI Literacy" within their discipline. The instructional unit may include lessons, activities, and/or projects that require the use and/or critical analysis of artificial intelligence. Faculty are expected to disseminate the insights and outcomes from their work, promoting a campus-wide community of practice that improves AI understanding and teaching methods.

*** Application for Fall 2025 Courses is open****
Due May 26, 2025.
 

See below for project reports for the Fall 2024 AI-Minigrants!

Information on Call for Proposals for AI Mini-Grants.

Important: Click on the PDF document below, "AI Mini-Grant for Course Integration: Call for proposals",  below for important information about the AI Mini-Grants, including eligibility, timeline, criteria, due dates and resources.

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Document containing all the information about and how to apply for the AI Mini-Grants for the 2025-2026 Academic Year.

Submission form

Click for online submission form:

Note: Faculty members who are accepted into the AI Digital Literacy Institute are not eligible to receive an AI Mini-grant award for the 2025-26 academic year. Faculty may apply for both; however, if selected, they must choose only one.

AI Mini-Grant Submission form for Fall 2025 Courses
More opportunities for faculty using AI in Teaching

Click link below for more opportunities and incentives for faculty to engage their students with artificial intelligence.

AI Programming and Events for Faculty

AI Mini-grants Award Recipients 2024-2025

Projects were selected from a pool of many excellent project ideas.

Project reports contain summaries and links to images and assignments. |
Ithaca College credentials required.

Utilizing AI for Art Direction in Advertising
Mark Addona, Strategic Communication
Project Report

Leveraging AI-Assisted Tools for Comprehensive Movement Analysis and Functional Assessment
Teresa Chen, Physical Therapy
Project Report

Incorporating Copilot in Data Analysis
Joash Geteregechi, Mathematics
Project Report

AI-Assisted Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders
David Hajjar, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
Project report

Comparative Coding Project
Xinxin Li, Finance and International Business
Project report

AI & Social Change
Priya Sirohi, Writing
Project Report

Work on Spring projects is currently underway.

Self-Regulation, Legal, and Ethical Issues and Risks Associated with Using ChatGPT and Generative AI in Advertising
Ann Marie Adams, TVPDM
Project Report

Lessons in the Creation and Ethics of AI-Generated Music
Colleen Countryman, Physics & Astronomy
Project Report

Ethical Use of AI Tools in Journalism
Allison Frisch, Journalism and Documentary Studies
Project Report

Understanding What ‘Reasoning’ in Large Language Models Encompasses
Venkata S Govindarajan, Computer Science
Project Report

Decoding Bias: Blackness, Ethics, and Social Companionship
M. Nicole Horsley,  Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE)
Project Report

AI Tools for Social Media Management
Yvette Sterbenk, Strategic Communications
Project Report
 

Contact

For information about this mini-grant, please contact Marilyn Dispensa, Instructional Designer with the Center for Instructional Design and Educational Technology.

607-274-3647