The Daily Bulletin

SUNY Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Melur K. “Ram” Ramasubramanian has announced the SUNY 2025 Academic Innovation Grants, which combine resources allocated to the Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) and Open Educational Resources (OER) Impact grant programs.

This year’s process builds on the success of last year’s two-stage proposal process, which resulted in more multicampus grants and a wider distribution of grants across all campus sectors. Once again, faculty and staff are encouraged to connect beyond departmental and campus boundaries to pilot, share, and scale-up transformative teaching and learning practices. Grants are specifically sought that support one or more of the SUNY Chancellor’s four pillars as well as the shared commitment for leading sustainable, impactful innovations that return value by multiple measures. Like last year, priority also will be given to proposals that focus on:

1. Optimizing artificial intelligence (AI) for teaching and learning, and/or
2. Expanding support for the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER).

The 2024 grants are listed on the IITG/OER Impact Grants website to learn which projects were funded last year.

The two-stage proposal solicitation process is detailed on the IITG/OER Impact Grants website and summarized below:

Stage One: Faculty and staff are invited to submit “ideas” for projects using the Ideation Submission Form.  Those who submit ideas will be invited to join town-hall-style Meetings (participation in one of the meetings is strongly recommended).  The goal is to use these meetings to foster more cross-campus dialogue and enable multicampus project teams to be formed around similar or complementary ideas. 

Stage Two: Those with ideas or shared goals coming out of the Ideation stage are invited to submit a full proposal. Applicants will need to create an account in the SUNY online grant management website to submit a full proposal.

Key Dates:

• The Ideation Submission Form will be available Tuesday, January 27, through Friday, February 14
• Town-hall-style meetings will occur during the weeks of February 17 and February 24
• The full proposal site opens the week of March 3
• The full proposal deadline is Sunday, March 30, at 11:59 p.m. 

Announcements of awards will be made during the 2025 SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology (CIT) hosted by SUNY Oneonta in May.

As a reminder, recipients must follow state and campus procurement policies and will need to identify local campus administrative and procurement support if a project requires expenditures prior to funds distribution.  As is the tradition with these SUNY grant programs, outcomes must be openly shared under a Creative Commons license.

Additional information will be provided via the IITG/OER Impact Grant website, as well as through normal SUNY and FACT2 communication channels.  In the interim, please do not hesitate to contact the team at iitgrants@suny.edu with any questions.