There are dozens of ways to take part in Life-Changing Education. Whether you’re seeking funding for a project, opportunities to learn from others, or a platform to share your story, you’ll find them here.
Ways to Take Part
Choose the path that fits your goals—apply for funding, join a program, or share your story.
Grant Opportunities
Life-Changing Education offers flexible funding ($2K–$20K) through a single application with four tracks. Choose the track that fits your work:
Research/Scholarship Investigate how people learn, teach, or access knowledge—and share insights publicly through accessible resources.
Events Create learning experiences that bring people together and leave a lasting resource for others to build on.
Planning Design future programs or partnerships and create a roadmap that shows what comes next.
Storytelling Share authentic stories that make learning visible through video, podcasts, exhibits, or other creative formats.
Who Can Apply U-M faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students (with a faculty/staff sponsor). Community partners may apply with a U-M sponsor.
If Funded, You’ll
- Complete your project within 12 months
- Attend one 90-minute Learning Community gathering
- Create a public, accessible resource others can use
- Credit Life-Changing Education and follow accessibility practices
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The Learning Community
The LCE Learning Community meets a few times each year to trade discoveries from classrooms, research, and collaborative projects with schools and community partners. It is part workshop, part reunion, and part show and tell. People bring what they are trying, what has surprised them, and what they still cannot quite figure out. The best insights travel through new stories, shared resources, and future grants so others can build on what has been learned and keep the questions alive.
The Learning Community
The LCE Learning Community meets a few times each year to trade discoveries from classrooms, research, and collaborative projects with schools and community partners. It is part workshop, part reunion, and part show and tell. People bring what they are trying, what has surprised them, and what they still cannot quite figure out. The best insights travel through new stories, shared resources, and future grants so others can build on what has been learned and keep the questions alive.
The Four Ways Education Changes Lives
Changing lives through education can mean a thousand different things. The Four Ways make it concrete by linking every grant, program, and partnership. Each one offers a different approach to improving learning at Michigan and beyond.