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Chancellor's Small Grants Program 2012-2013

 

Deadlines:

 

  • Department Head: Friday November 2nd, 2012
  • Associate Dean: Wednesday November 7th, 2012
  • Notification of awards: Monday November 12th, 2012

 

Eligibility

 

Eligible faculty are tenured/tenure-track faculty and term faculty appointed at least 35% time for two semesters.

Proposals may be related to teaching, research, or service. Proposals can be submitted for any purpose that has an identifiable connection with principles of the collegiate vision. The maximum award per faculty member will be $750. These funds should be expended during the time period between the award and April 12, 2013.

 

Examples Fundable Projects

 

  • Professional travel for students to present at conferences, or attend workshops
  • Professional travel for faculty to present at conferences, or attend workshops
  • Tuition for faculty development workshops/initiatives
  • Support for course projects/initiatives (poster printing, materials for projects etc.)
  • Funding for departmental consultants
  • Funding for materials to support departmental advising and/or retention efforts
  • Funding to support faculty research (materials, assistantships)
  • Guest speakers from community or area of expertise
  • Departmental functions to support student learning
  • Support for student fellowship groups
  • Funding to support assessment efforts

 

Proposal Format

Each proposal must contain the items listed below and should be no more than two pages. Submit two copies of your proposal to your department head. The department will retain one copy and send the other to the Associate Dean.

 

  • Today's date
  • Your name
  • Your rank
  • Your college and department
  • Your address
  • Expected dates of the project
  • Amount requested (maximum award $750)
  • Provide a brief description of the project.  Also include the following elements in your description: (a) how your project advances the goals identified in the CEHSP Vision; (b) the way(s) in which your project advances UMD Strategic Goals; (c) how the project contributes to your professional development.
  • An itemization of the basic categories and expenses of this project. If travel is anticipated as an expense, include transportation, lodging, meals, registration, etc.
  • An explanation of any external or internal funds you already have received for this project.

 

Click on this statement (Word file) to access the interactive format for entry and the printing of the two copies to be given to your Department Head by the stated deadline.

Guidelines

The guiding principle for determining awards will be based on the CEHSP Vision:

http://www.d.umn.edu/cehsp/about.html 

The CEHSP Vision can be thought of as action steps that grow out of the mission. The Vision embodies the direction in which we endeavor to move as a group.  The vision states that “We are increasingly recognized for excellence in creative learning, teaching, advising, research and service.” As such, the awards will be based on the extent to which the project is related to our Vision.  We will be documenting our efforts toward our Vision goals by archiving the reports generated by award recipients upon completion of their projects.

Submissions will be prioritized using the following guidelines

Department Head priority and comments: Please see your Department Head for their considerations and criteria. 

Quality of the Proposal: Proposal should provide a well-constructed rationale that clearly identifies how the project advances the Vision of CEHSP, how it supports your professional development and how it advances UMD strategic goals.

Other considerations: Awards will be distributed across departments to as many individuals as possible.

A proposal with a clearly articulated connection to the vision will receive higher a ranking than will a proposal with multiple connections that are marginally related to the vision.  In other words, more is not necessarily better.

Joint grants which ask for $750 per author are more complex because it limits the number of individual grants that can be awarded.

The purpose is "small grants" so cumulative proposals above $750 receive less priority.

Proposals will receive lower priority if other funding opportunities for the project are available.

Number of recent awards: New faculty or those who haven't applied recently receive a higher priority.

Applicants who failed to submit required follow-up report(s) on previously awarded Chancellor’s Faculty Small Grant will receive lower priority.