The Undergraduate Learning Initiative (ULI) emphasizes ways to deepen the intellectual experience of Georgetown students, improve the teaching lives of main campus faculty, and create new opportunities for depth, coherence, and integration in undergraduate learning. The ULI also emphasizes ways to link undergraduate learning to quality and innovative graduate training, as well as to link classroom and curricular learning to meaningful experiences outside the classroom, such as study abroad and community-based learning.

Faculty, students, and academic staff are partners in the collaborative creation of an environment that advances learning in every aspect of undergraduate education. The ULI fosters this commitment to learning by advancing three broad goals:

• Creating curricular and pedagogical designs that help students take greater responsibility for their own learning;
• Expanding opportunities for deep learning through undergraduate research and teaching, and creating stronger connections between curricular learning and experience outside the classroom; and
• Providing more resources to support ongoing pedagogical and curricular enhancement, in ways that improve the quality of professional life for faculty and take careful account of gains in learning and the true costs of instruction.

The ULI grant and funding opportunities described here will advance the above goals through curricular experimentation and innovative programs targeted at students, faculty, programs, and schools.