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Xavier > CAT > About > Grants > Bush-Hewlett Grant
In October 1997, Xavier University was awarded a three-year, $450,000 grant from The Bush and William and Flora Hewlett foundations to support a faculty development program. This grant was administered by Xavier's Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
The Center examined the data collected throughout the three-year course of this grant, with equal attention to what worked and to what did not work. Based on these findings, the Center drafted a proposal to The Bush and William and Flora Hewlett foundations for a renewed faculty development program capitalizing on the successes of the original. The renewal proposal was approved in early 2002.
(Both the original proposal and the renewal proposal, as well as the interim reports, are available via the links below.)
The aim of the renewed faculty development initiative is to improve student learning by fostering a campus culture where teaching and research are improved and made public. The Center will promote this aim through a continuous program of faculty development which:
The Center will achieve these goals through the following activities:
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