Thrive Grants

The University of Virginia is “guided by a founding vision of discovery, innovation, and development of the full potential of talented students,” and teaching excellence and innovation in the classroom are core components of faculty lives. To achieve ongoing and substantive innovation requires sustained institutional commitments that encourage, incentivize, and reward the risk-taking that comes with innovation and the necessary human, technological, and organizational supports required for it. Thrive grants, along with pedagogical support from CTE staff, provide faculty with the resources needed to (re)imagine how they teach and how their students learn.

Co-funded by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching Excellence and administered by the CTE, Thrive grants are available to UVA and UVA Wise instructors who wish to innovate their undergraduate courses. A regular call for proposals is typically announced in early July for innovations to be implemented in the upcoming academic year. Special calls are announced periodically based on institutional priorities and available funding.