2026/27 Snapshot

2026/27 Awarded Funding

The 2026/27 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) awarded $2,429,493 to support 60 new and returning TLEF projects (18 Large TLEF Transformation projects and 42 Small TLEF Innovation projects). Proposals were submitted to the TLEF call for funding by faculty, staff and students across the UBC Vancouver campus.   

An additional $120,000 was awarded to support 12 project teams as part of the Special Call for the Universal Design for Learning Fellows Program. These projects were nominated by UBC Vancouver Faculties to participate in the 4th UDL Fellows Program cohort that will launch in Spring 2026. 

Applied Science – $506,697 (20.9%)
Arts – $384,989 (15.8%)
Dentistry – $57,533 (2.4%)
Education – $165,299 (6.8%)
Forestry & Environmental Stewardship – $196,384 (8.1%)
Land and Food Systems – $59,337 (2.4%)
Medicine – $236,937 (9.8%)
Pharmaceutical Sciences – $323,635 (13.3%)
Sauder School of Business – $68,049 (2.8%)
Science – $430,633 (17.7%)

 

2026/27 Funded Projects

60 projects received funding during the 2026/27 TLEF funding round.

Small TLEF Innovation Projects

Proposals: 68 | Funded: 42

62%

Large TLEF Transformation Projects

Proposals: 23 | Funded: 18

78%

2026/27 Faculty, Staff and Student Engagement

The TLEF actively engages with educational leadership and research faculty across the university as well as support staff and students who work together on the TLEF project teams.

In 2026/27, approximately $1.325 million in TLEF-awarded funding will employ over 210 UBC students to support the development, implementation and evaluation of TLEF projects.

42

42 Small grants awarded


95 Research Faculty


84 Educational Leadership Faculty


47 Sessionals, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty


90 Staff


75 Students

18

18 Large grants awarded


48 Research Faculty


55 Educational Leadership Faculty


26 Sessionals, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty


51 Staff


14 Students

 

 

2025/26 Student Reach
 

TLEF projects funded in 2025/26 reached 24,826 student enrollments in Small TLEF Innovation projects, 4,535 student enrollments in Large TLEF Transformation projects, and were complimented by 3,633 student enrollments in Universal Design for Learning projects. Overall, the projects reached 215 unique courses (undergraduate and graduate) across 462 sections in 11 Faculties at the UBCV campus, impacting 32,994 student enrollments taken by 16,832 unique students.

The number of student enrollments impacted within each UBC Faculty by the entirety of the TLEF projects in the Small, Large and UDL cohorts, respectively, are as follows:

Small TLEF Innovation Projects

Applied Science – 3,823
Arts – 4,394
Dentistry – 549
Education – 680
Forestry & Environmental Stewardship – 1,575
Land and Food Systems – 663
Medicine – 3,935
Pharmaceutical Sciences – 4,686
Sauder School of Business – 205
Science – 4,316

Large TLEF Transformation Projects

Applied Science – 57
Arts – 1,856
Pharmaceutical Sciences – 443
Sauder School of Business – 961
Science – 1,218

Universal Design For Learning Projects

Allard School of Law – 28
Applied Science – 10
Arts – 480
Education – 86
Forestry & Environmental Stewardship – 114
Land and Food Systems – 41
Pharmaceutical Sciences – 30
Sauder School of Business – 2,114
Science – 730