The Call for Proposals is now available for those who seek to apply for grant funds to support their OER work in Fiscal Year 2026. To view the entire CFP along with detailed information and OER glossary of terms, please go online.
For the 9th consecutive year, CUNY has received funding to further its institutional OER initiative. The CUNY OER scale-up initiative seeks to incentivize and empower CUNY faculty to redesign their course materials and pedagogy through the replacement of proprietary textbooks and other costly materials with open educational resources and materials that carry zero cost to students, facilitate and incentivize faculty to create new OER that can be shared beyond CUNY, and enhance and deliver distributed faculty support models and programming. The goals of this initiative are to reduce costs for students, accelerate their progress through college, and change University culture to create structures and innovative teaching practices that better connect curriculum and pedagogy to updated student learning outcomes.
Proposals are due by Monday, July 7, 2025. Late proposals will not be considered.
How to submit an application:
To submit a proposal for a course conversion to Zero Textbook Cost using OER or other freely available materials, please email your submission to Professor Christina Boyle, Emerging Technologies Librarian and OER Coordinator at Christina.Boyle@csi.cuny.edu, subject line: “OER Grant Application FY26,” with the required information as outlined in the online RFP document.
To submit a proposal for original OER content creation, such as a textbook, assessments, or other ancillary materials, applicants must submit ONLY via the CUNY form. Content creation proposals that are not submitted via this form will not be considered.
For questions or additional information, please contact: Christina Boyle, Emerging Technologies Librarian and OER Coordinator at Christina.Boyle@csi.cuny.edu.
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