Grants and Awards

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) supports faculty innovation and professional growth through grants and recognition opportunities that advance excellence in teaching and learning at Bowie State University.

CETL grants encourage faculty to explore new instructional approaches, integrate innovative technologies, and develop creative strategies that enhance student engagement and academic success. These opportunities provide resources that support experimentation, collaboration, and scholarly inquiry related to teaching and learning.

CETL also recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching through awards that highlight faculty members who demonstrate exceptional commitment to instructional excellence, mentorship, and student success.

2026–2027 Adobe/SoTL Mini Grant Recipients

As an Adobe Creative Campus, Bowie State University is committed to advancing digital literacy, creativity, and innovation across teaching and learning. This environment creates strong opportunities for SoTL by supporting faculty and students in using digital tools to explore, document, and communicate learning in more engaging and accessible ways.

Adobe tools can support SoTL at every stage of the research process. Faculty may use Adobe Express to create surveys, research posters, infographics, digital reflections, webpages, and student-facing learning materials. Adobe applications can also support the collection, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of findings through multimedia projects, presentations, short videos, podcasts, and public-facing research summaries.

At Bowie State, Adobe has also been featured in faculty development programming that highlights research communication, assignment design, and the use of digital tools to make scholarship more accessible to broader audiences.

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is pleased to recognize the recipients of the 2026–2027 Adobe Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Grants. These grants support faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning while integrating Adobe tools to enhance instruction, creativity, and student engagement.

Through this work, faculty investigate innovative teaching practices, examine their impact on student learning, and contribute to a culture of evidence-based teaching and continuous improvement across the university.

Recipients:

Hamdan Alabsi
Kim Evelyn
Darius Gwynn
Andrew Mangle
Wendy Post
Qingqing Sun
Jeremy Treadwell
Sabah Uddin
Faith Williams
Brittany Williams
Monique Alston
Jayne Cubbage
Leta Hooper
Sriram Srinivasan