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SUNY has announced the 2016 request for proposals (RFP) for the Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) program. These competitive, peer-reviewed awards of up to $60,000 are allocated to demonstrate, communicate, and replicate innovations developed at campuses across SUNY.

This year’s RFP gives priority to collaborative proposals that support one or more of the five pillars of SUNY Excels: access, completion, success, inquiry, and engagement. This includes Open SUNY, our multifaceted initiative to expand online education and enhance support resources for students and faculty. Online learning, open educational resources, e-textbooks, mobile devices, flipped classrooms, educational gaming, competency-based and experiential learning, prior learning assessment, and MOOCs are transforming how education is providing access and engaging students and can have a positive impact on SUNY’s overall completion agenda.

The 2016 RFP has been posted to the IITG website along with application details and a list of currently funded projects and outcomes. The SUNY RFP deadline is Tuesday, March 1. To facilitate sufficient campus administrative review for the creation of statements in support of IITG proposals, principal investigators should e-mail proposals to David Demers, chief information officer, by 3:00 p.m. Friday, February 19.

Applicants should create an account in the SUNY online grant management website. Multiple proposals from a campus, each requiring a brief project and budget narrative as well as an assessment plan, are welcome. Proposals featuring multicampus collaborations are strongly encouraged.

Award announcements are anticipated by May 1, which allows time for project planning prior to the distribution of these university-wide program funds. Please note that IITG grants are not connected to the Research Foundation. Recipients must follow state and campus procurement policies, and must identify local campus administrative and procurement support as well as advance funds if a project requires expenditures prior to award distribution. 

The biggest change in the program this year is that Tier 2 awards are still expected to have a 25 percent campus match, and Tier 3 has increased from 33 to 50 percent. Please refer to the IITG FAQs or contact Lisa A. Stephens, senior strategist for academic innovation in the SUNY Office of the Provost, or Melaine Kenyon, Buffalo State’s SUNY FACT² representative, 878-6679, with questions.