Award Recipients

2024-2025 Award Recipients

The Upshur Institute for Civic Education at Eastern Michigan University has awarded funding to faculty and lecturers for projects to prepare Eastern Michigan University students for the intellectual demands of democratic participation through critical inquiry and engagement in History and other Social Studies disciplines.

Winners of the 2024-2025 UICE Awards are:

First Round Award Recipients Announced

The Upshur Institute for Civic Education at Eastern Michigan University has awarded funding to faculty and lecturers for projects to prepare Eastern Michigan University students for the intellectual demands of democratic participation through critical inquiry and engagement in History and other Social Studies disciplines.

Established in September, UICE-EMU promotes innovative teaching and learning methods in History and social studies. The UICE investigates and tests new ways to apply and adapt approaches to history and social studies teacher training courses at EMU and helps foster a new generation of informed and engaged citizens and innovative educators at the high school and college levels to benefit students in Michigan and beyond. The Institute grounds itself in producing citizens with strong civic knowledge, skills, dispositions, and capacities.

The award program aims to support projects that:

Projects could develop Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement through: 

• Course development plans that encourage greater student engagement and offer the opportunity for transformative learning experiences; 
• Collaborative and/or interdisciplinary work around democratic engagement;
• Research projects, including conducting experiments and/or demonstrations;
• Projects related to the scholarship of teaching and learning; 
• Community engagement experiences (local or global); 
• Team-based or problem-based learning;
• Large group debates;
• Peer teaching;
• Roleplaying or game-based learning;
• Place-based pedagogies;
• Faculty learning communities.

Selected proposals receive up to $4,500, which must be spent during the 2023/2024 Academic year. 

Winners of the inaugural UICE Awards are:

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