Pomerantz Career Center is pleased to announce that through University P3 initiatives, the project Closing the Gap: Experiential Education for All Undergraduates at Iowa funding is now available to assist with the development of new or enhanced experiential education courses. Pomerantz Career Center, in partnership with the OTLT Center for Teaching, Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates, and Office of Community Engagement is seeking applications for courses that will expand access to and opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in experiential education. More information and sample courses can be found at: https://careers.uiowa.edu/p3.

The first round of applications has been submitted and notifications will go out by February 10. A second/extended deadline is available Friday, February 17, 2023. More information is included below.

Course Funding Guidelines:

Funds may be used for course development and execution of the course experiential elements within the course as well as equipment or materials but may not be used for course instruction costs.  

Application Tracks: 

• Existing courses – already experiential    
  Existing undergraduate-level courses that are already experiential in nature and would like to enhance that component are eligible to apply for up to $2,000 in one-time funding and assistance in enhancing the applied elements of the course.   
• Existing courses – not yet experiential   
  Existing undergraduate-level courses that would like to apply for grant funds to remodel their course into a newly experiential course are eligible to apply for up to $2,000 in one-time funding and assistance in creating applied elements of the course.   
• New experiential courses  
  Academic departments that have ideas, concepts, and an instructor or instructors for undergraduate-level courses that are not yet developed may apply for experiential course development funds through this program. Departments may apply for up to $3,000 for development and execution of the new course.  

Application Timeline:  
2^nd Application Deadline:   
2nd application close: Feb 17, 2023  
2nd Application notification date: March 3, 2023 

For questions regarding the application process, please contact Angi McKie at angi-mckie@uiowa.edu. For questions from College of Liberal Arts and Sciences departments, please contact Jennifer Eimers at jennifer-eimers@uiowa.edu.