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Assigned Time & Funding Opportunities
Academic Year 2008-09
(as of December, 2007)
Academic Year 2007-08 Assigned Time & Funding Opportunities
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- Assessment Awards
- Community Engagement & Service Learning
- Center for Enhancement of Teaching and learning (CETL)
- Graduate Faculty/Program Enhancement Awards
- Curricular Innovation for Student Success Projects
- Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities (RSCA)
- Research Activity Awards (RAA)
Introduction
Below are summaries of the opportunities faculty have to apply for assigned time and/or stipends that are supported this year by the Office of the Provost. Please take note of which offices will be announcing, reviewing, and managing the distribution of those funds. The Provost encourages you to consider applying for one or more of these opportunities.
For this round, applications for the following awards will be due on Friday, February 15, 2008 unless otherwise mentioned. Awards will be announced before the end of March, 2008. Please be advised that these awards are contingent upon the 2008-2009 budget and enrollment projections.
Assessment Awards
We initiated these awards two years ago for those faculty and/or departments seeking funding to enhance, develop and implement outcomes assessment and use of results in curriculum and program planning. Look for the RFP in the next few weeks. The awards are managed by Tina Leimer, Director of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning. For more information, please contact Tina Leimer.
Community Engagement and Service Learning
There continue to be multiple forms of grants related to community engagement and service learning on campus, some of which are designed for individual faculty and some for departmental work on service-learning programs. There are Service Learning Faculty Development Grants, funds to support Community-Based Action Research and an Engaged Department grant to assist with department-wide review and planning for deeper community engagement will be available. Submissions for all are due on Friday, February 15, 2008. Awards are managed by Chris Fiorentino, Director of the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning. For more information on these programs and others, please email Chris Fiorentino.
Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
The Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) continues to offer grants for Instructional Enhancement focusing on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Awards are managed by Roy Bohlin, Director of CETL. An announcement on applying for these funds has been issued and a second RFP is expected to be distributed in the spring. For more information, please contact Roy Bohlin, Director of CETL.
Graduate Faculty/Program Enhancement Awards
Graduate Faculty/Program Enhancement Awards of up to $5,000 are available for faculty teaching and/or advising graduate students. Departments with graduate programs may also apply for Graduate Enhancement Awards of up to $10,000. Exceptional proposals with appropriate justification may be considered for additional funding. Awards may be used, for example, for faculty professional development, activities related to the recruiting of graduate students, graduate assistantships, advising or mentoring activities, mentoring graduate McNair Scholars, or developing curriculum. Faculty applying for research funding must clearly demonstrate a strong connection to the graduate program. These awards are for the 2008/2009 academic year and summer 2009. The amount of money available for these awards is $250,000. The complete application will be linked here as soon as it is available.
Curricular Innovation for Student Success Projects
This program will fund travel for 2-3 faculty from a single department to attend the National Center for Academic Transformation’s annual meeting in March 2008 and release time for one faculty member to prepare a proposal to the NCAT C2R program. The proposal is due in November 2008, and if successful, would require attendance at conferences in March and April 2009, development of a redesigned course in Spring/Summer 2009 with implementation in Fall 2009 and reporting of results in Spring 2010 at a national conference. The application guide is available here. If the proposal is not successful, efforts would be made to implement course redesign without the disciplinary workshop and interaction with redesign scholars. For more information, please contact Dennis Nef.
Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities (RSCA)
Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (RSCA) program provides 28 competitive awards of up to $5000, primarily for release time or summer pay. Applications are reviewed and recommended by department chairs and college research committees prior to being forwarded to the Research Awards Review Committee. The RSCA Call for Proposals and guidelines are available online.
Research Activity Awards (RAA)
The Research Activity Awards (RAA) are competitive internal funds that support assigned time and related expenses for a faculty member or team of faculty members to develop proposals for major projects that hold high promise of attracting substantial external funds. Proposals resulting from this funding must request major external support for a new project or a major expansion of an existing program, and it is expected that those involved would submit multiple proposals to more than one funding source. Previous successful proposals were very specific, often identifying the potential funding agencies, the programs, and the deadlines for submission. They also included a clear timeline for activities leading to submissions, and their budgets were carefully crafted. More information is available at the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs website.