Chancellor's Faculty Small Grants Program, Spring 2008

PROPOSAL FORMAT

Deadlines:

• Dean: January 25, 2008
• VCAA: January 31, 2008
• Notification of awards: February 8, 2008

Eligiblility

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; the maximum award per faculty member will be $750. These funds should be expended during the time period between the award and the end of fall semester 2008.

Proposal Contents

Each proposal must contain the items listed below and should be no more than two pages. Submit three copies of your proposal to your department head. The department will retain one copy and send two copies to the dean. After prioritizing all requests, the dean will send one copy of each to the VCAA.

1. Today's date
2. Your name
3. Your rank
4. Your college and department
5. Your address
6. Expected dates of the project
7. Amount requested (maximum award $750)
8. A brief description of the project that will be funded by this grant, including a statement as to the value of the project to the institution and to your professional development.
9. An itemization of the basic categories and expenses of this project. If travel is anticipated as an expense, include transportation, lodging, meals, registration, etc.
10. 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 three copies to be given to your Department Head by the stated deadline.

Guidelines

Proposals will be prioritized using the following guidelines (approved by the Department Heads and CEHSP Senate
Executive Council in February 2004).

1. Pay close attention to the memo from the VCAA. Guidelines are followed closely.
2. Department Head priority and comments: Please see your Department Head for their considerations and criteria.
3. Clear, concise writing that connects outcomes to teaching, research, or service.
4. Awards are distributed across departments to as many individuals as possible.
5. Joint grants which ask for $750 per author are more complex because it limits the number of individual grants that can be awarded.
6. The purpose is "small grants" so cumulative proposals above $1000 receive less priority.
7. Enhancing factors considered:
   1. Materials that enhance coursework and increase student participation.
   2. Research that involves students
   3. Innovative advisement and retention projects
   4. Focus on cultural and global perspectives
   5. Engaging faculty and students with the community
8. Professional development travel: I look for specific outcomes that will be integrated into teaching, research, and service
9. Number of recent awards: New faculty or those who haven't applied recently receive a higher priority
10. Required brief report was submitted on previously awarded CFSG.
11. Technology related proposals can be considered and prioritized; however, due to technology fee allocations administration does not prioritize technology related proposals high. The exception to this would be faculty who are teaching a course in technology as opposed to just using technology for teaching and learning.