The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) is accepting applications from tenure and non-tenure track faculty to learn about innovations taking place in distance education and blended learning at the following conferences:

OLC Innovate Conference: Tenure and non-tenure track faculty are invited to apply for conference grants to attend the Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate conference  VIRTUALLY only from March 3 - 5, 2026. Note that there is no in-person option.

The OLC Innovate conference is a great place to hear experts discuss the latest trends in online and hybrid teaching.

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE: Monday, February 16th by 5 pm.

The Center would like to sponsor faculty that possess some experience designing and delivering distance or blended courses. Applications will be evaluated accordingly and by the anticipated impact attending the conference will have on increasing and supporting distance education and blended learning at MSU.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants may submit their application by responding to the questions in this MS Word document and sending it to Ken Silvestri at kenneth.silvestri@montana.edu.