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TRAIL award and applications
Award information
All full-time teaching, clinical, practice, lecturer, research, tenure-track, and tenured faculty, at any rank step, are eligible to apply for support under the TRAIL program, under either the instructional or research and scholarship track. Awardees will receive $5,000 toward summer salary or professional development to engage in the development of their proposed activities.
Awardees will be listed as IAAAI members and profiled on the TRAIL page. Awardees also commit to showcase their work during the spring of the award year and attend TRAIL mixers as part of our institutional professional development activities. Lastly, awardees will serve in the selection process for the next year.
Application information
Applications for the next academic year will be accepted September through February with award notifications announced in March for the next academic year.
Applicants may apply as an individual or as part of a group. The award amount is the same regardless of number of people in a group. Applicants may apply as individuals to both tracks and also be part of a group in both tracks. Half of all awards will be reserved for first-time applicants.
Applicants for the instructional track of the program must have assigned courses in the fall term of the award year and meet the expectation that proposed interventions be piloted in at least one of their assigned fall courses.
Applicants applying under the research track of the program must commit to the expectation that the AI-based techniques will be used to complete one or more discipline-appropriate scholarly product (e.g., journal or conference publication, grant proposal, book chapter) during the award year.
Applications for each track will be separately assessed and prioritized for funding according to the following criteria:
- Innovation and originality of the proposed intervention and its potential to contribute to an improved understanding of possible applications of AI in the program’s areas of interest;
- Feasibility and methodological soundness of the proposed intervention, including the proposer possessing the necessary expertise to successfully complete the work;
- As appropriate to each respective track, (a) potential for positive impact on students, including considerations of enrollments in targeted courses, and across disciplines or (b) potential for positive impact on the research or scholarly field and the generation of opportunities for scholarly dissemination or extramural funding support;
- Potential for the sustainability of the proposed intervention beyond the scope of the award; and,
- Rigor in considering ethical implications of the proposed work and mitigating relevant risks, including data privacy of student information and transparency for students.