- Colorado College

Faculty Advancement Committee May 14, 2007

The Path to Faculty Funding

Faculty regularly have ideas about new professional projects, ranging from the personal to the College-wide, ideas that usually require funding to implement. The Faculty Advancement Committee recognizes that the path to funding is unclear to many faculty members. To help match projects, faculty, and funding, we have prepared this page.

First, we recommend that you attempt to identify which of the following tracks best describes your idea:

a. Individual (e.g. research by a single faculty member)

b. Intra-department (e.g. visitor for a particular class, support of students in a single discipline, lecture of interest primarily to one discipline)

c. Inter-department (e.g. collaboration among several departments on an event or speaker or class)

d. Divisional (e.g. infrastructure to support all natural sciences)

e. College-wide (e.g. lectures that appeal to many disciplines, support for co-curricular or curricular programs regardless of discipline)

While every project is unique, the typical progression for funding of a faculty initiative proceeds from left to right using the appropriate row of the following table. As you work your way rightward on the table, be prepared to discuss your efforts to secure support from other sources. If your project might be considered under two or more tracks above, consider pursuing all relevant rows of the table. Note that this table is not meant to exclude possible funding avenues, but merely to guide the process for the average project idea.

For department funding, contact your department chair. Department chairs should contact Debby Fowler in the Advancement Office at x6952 if they are unsure of the resources available to them. Also consider Course Development Grants (see Dean’s Office below).

For division funding, contact your Divisional Executive Committee for relevant guidelines and deadlines. Consider both research funding and development block release time from this source. The Research and Development Board (R&D), which consists of a representative from each of the three divisional executive committees reviews these proposals.

Each of the three divisions (Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences) receives college funds to disburse for faculty research and development each year. The Divisional Executive Committees are responsible for awarding these funds. These are competitive grants and typically range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per award. Projects may include such items as faculty research-related expenses, special studies, student stipends for working on faculty research projects, travel to meetings. Year-long visiting faculty may apply, but receive lower priority than continuing faculty, particularly for summer projects. Approximate Application Deadlines- mid-Fall, with later rounds in the winter and spring depending on demand and funds requested.

Release Blocks- The college awards several blocks of release from teaching for professional development and scholarship. These blocks are highly competitive with up to four blocks awarded to faculty in each division each year. Faculty must maintain the 5-block minimum teaching load. Approximate Application Deadlines- mid-Fall

For Program or Department-Sponsored Funds open to interested faculty: Contact the relevant program for specific guidelines and deadlines.

1. The Program in Comparative Literature offers support for faculty to design new or revise existing courses to be taught under the Comparative Literature topics rubric of Literature and Other Disciplines. The courses may be offered at the 200-level (CO220) or the 300-level (CO352) and may be cross-listed in other departments. Two grants of up to $2,500 each will be awarded to teams of faculty who wish to engage in the planning and implementation of a topics course addressing Literature and Other Disciplines. Faculty are free to use the grants however they choose. They are expected to teach the course within two years. Generally due in block 4.

2. The Asian Studies Program has established a research fund for Colorado College faculty who participate in a variety of Asian-related activities. Through the terms of the Gaylord Endowment for Pacific Areas Studies, the program is authorized to support projects in or about countries/regions that touch on the Pacific Ocean. These include, but are not limited to, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Generally due in late Fall. Contact the program chair for more information.

For Dean’s Office funding:

1. College-wide Conference Travel.

The college provides support towards attendance at one conference per year for all full-time and adjunct faculty. Ask your department Chair for details.

2. Benezet Grants for full-time or adjunct faculty.

These grants award $4,000 to faculty for summer research. Typically, about six awards are available per year. R&D Board reviews these. Approximate Application Deadline- early April. Contact Dee wood-Lane at 6682.

3. Mrachek Award for Nontenured, Tenure-Track faculty.

This award provides $4,000 for the development of a faculty member’s research agenda in the years leading up to tenure. Funds may be used over the summer following the conferral of the Fellowship or through the following academic year. Funding for one or two faculty per year is typical. R&D reviews these. Approximate Application Deadline- in April. Contact Dee Wood-Lane at 6682.

4. Christian-Johnson Endeavor.

Funds to encourage innovative, discipline-specific and interdisciplinary faculty proposals, including ‘team’ proposals that will increase the number of CC and CC-affiliated international programs, improve international programs already established at CC, or broaden the range of the College’s internationally-oriented courses. Currently an annual total of $20,000 is available to support this endeavor. Approximate Application Deadline- usually by the end of Block 2; a second round at the end of Block 5 may occur if funds are left. Contact Jeff Noblett at 6681.  For more, please see the all-faculty memorandum on the CJE Fund.

5. Venture Fund for Faculty-Student Collaborative Grants.

Grants for faculty who involve students in the faculty member’s research activities and provide these students with a first-hand research experience as undergraduates. The grant pays $2500 to the students for a ten-week commitment. Faculty mentors receive $500 in their research accounts to defray lab, field or other expenses at their discretion. The Dean’s Advisory Committee reviews these applications. Typically, 10 grants are awarded each year. Approximate Application deadline- beginning of April (Block 7). Contact Victor Nelson-Cisneros at 6686.

6. Venture Fund- Other Faculty Opportunities.

Faculty may apply for Venture Grant funds for several purposes. These may include taking students to professional meetings (not faculty expenses) and bringing distinguished visitors to campus for seminars or lectures. Proposals are due to the Dean’s Advisory Committee by 1:00PM of the second Friday of each block. Contact Victor Nelson-Cisneros at 6686.

7. Curricular Development Grants.

For construction of a new course ($4,000) or revision to an existing course($2,000). Generally due early in block 7; preference given to proposals for courses that will satisfy general education requirements. Reviewed by the General Education Oversight Committee. Contact Jeff Noblett at x6681.

8. Dean's Summer Research Grant.

The Dean’s Summer Research grants are open to all regular faculty members (tenure track, adjuncts, and lecturers) and are designed to provide faculty members with time during the summer to develop, pursue, or complete scholarly projects which have the promise of leading to publication, performance, or exhibition to an audience outside the college. The $4000 funds may underwrite scholarly travel, salary for student research assistants engaged in a collaborative project with the awardee, equipment, books, or other similar expenses related directly to the research project, or may be used simply as a summer research grant to provide release time for the pursuit of the proposed project (in which case the $4000 would be taxable income).

9. Faculty Opportunity Grants.

In an effort to expand support for scholarship, the Dean’s Office offers resources to faculty members interested in exploring new interests or in reviving projects postponed due to heavy college and departmental commitments. This fund supports a variety of initiatives, including per diem supplements to the standard college conference travel grants, books for reading programs, preparation for collaborative research initiatives, visits to laboratories and libraries for preliminary investigations.

10. Norman B. Smith Faculty Fund.

Norm Smith, Class of 1942, recently endowed a fund dedicated to helping to improve the quality of undergraduate teaching by supporting recently-hired faculty at the College through merit awards to celebrate high quality teaching, incentive awards to enhance teaching, and/or summer stipends for faculty in their first and second years at the College to help prepare courses. After consulting with younger faculty, we decided this year to use the income from the endowment to support one $4000 stipend for course development for the equivalent of a four-week period during the summer. You can propose to develop an introductory or advanced course, a course in the department or an interdisciplinary program, an FYE offering or one designed for Critical Perspectives credit.

For Faculty Research Support, contact the Director of Faculty Research Support (Tess Powers; tpowers@ColoradoCollege.edu) and see details at www.coloradocollege.edu/resources/dean/grants.asp. While she has no funding to offer, she will assist in locating appropriate external sources to support faculty research, in editing your grant proposal, in securing College approval of your research proposal (required by most funding agencies), and in finalizing payment of the grant funds to your research account.

For Advancement support, contact Jay Maloney in the Development Office at x6785. Advancement has no allocation authority over funds, so will rely on others (departments, divisions, Dean’s Office, President’s Office) to inform and guide their fundraising priorities. In particular, they will confirm with you that you have sought out funding from any other appropriate internal and external sources in order to focus our fundraising efforts effectively on projects which truly would be unsupported by existing internal resources. After framing the proposal with you, Jay will connect you with the appropriate Advancement officer, determined by either geography or theme. For questions concerning advancement support, please feel free to contact the faculty members of the Faculty Advancement Committee:

Peter Blasenheim, History

Dan Johnson, Economics

Libby Rittenberg, Summer Programs

John Simons, English

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TO: All Faculty

DATE: February 17, 2008

FROM: Susan Ashley

RE: Summer Research Funds

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I am pleased to announce the Dean’s Summer Research Grants program, which is funded for three years by a generous foundation grant. Benezet summer research grants support completion and start up projects, and the Mrachek Fellowship program serves non-tenured, tenure-track faculty in their first four years at the College. The Dean’s Summer Research grants are open to all regular faculty members (tenure track, adjuncts, and lecturers) and are designed to provide faculty members with time during the summer to develop, pursue, or complete scholarly projects which have the promise of leading to publication, performance, or exhibition to an audience outside the college. The $4000 funds may underwrite scholarly travel, salary for student research assistants engaged in a collaborative project with the awardee, equipment, books, or other similar expenses related directly to the research project, or may be used simply as a summer research grant to provide release time for the pursuit of the proposed project (in which case the $4000 would be taxable income).

The Research and Development Board will review applications and make the awards. The award emphasizes scholarly or creative achievement in accordance with the guidelines given below. Up to three grants will be awarded for the summer of 2008.

Here are the guidelines for submission of proposals:

1. Applications are to be submitted to the R & D Board, c/o Office of the Dean of the College no later than March 24, 2008. Please submit the original and 4 copies if submitting a hard copy application. Applications may be submitted electronically to Karen Ferguson (kferguson@ColoradoCollege.edu).

2. Applicants must be tenure-track faculty, adjuncts, or lecturers.

3. Awards will be made without regard to divisional or departmental quotas; each application will be judged strictly on its scholarly merits.

The proposals must include the following information in this order.

a. A description of the project and of the intended use of the funds.

b. A clear statement about how the criteria will be met.

c. A statement regarding the expected time of completion of the project.

d. A list of other grants applied for or already awarded which concern the topic of the proposal (e.g., Research and Development Blocks, Jackson Blocks, divisional research grants, or grants from outside the College). Application for other grants will not prejudice a summer award proposal. In the event that a comparable outside grant is awarded for the same period, however, the recipient will be expected to notify the Research and Development Board and to give up the grant.

e. The proposed research project is expected to be the recipient's major effort during the period of the grant (which should be a minimum of four weeks of concentrated work).

f. A vita, including the applicant's recent publications, presentations, current research activity and preparation for the proposed project.

4. The Research and Development Board reserves the right to ask faculty members at the College and elsewhere to appraise the proposals submitted to the Board, and to award a smaller number of fellowships if applications do not meet the criteria.

5. Recipients of the Dean’s Summer Research Awards will be expected to submit a report of their work by November 1, 2008.

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TO: All Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty

FROM: Susan Ashley, Dean of the College and Dean of the Faculty

DATE: January 21, 2008

RE: Curricular Development Grants

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Curriculum Development Grants

Rationale: Building from the conversations about revitalizing the Block Plan at the Faculty Forum in the fall of 2005, the Dean’s Office, in conjunction with the Crown Faculty Center, would like to provide support to faculty interested in developing new courses or taking existing courses in fresh directions.  The grants apply either to individuals or to collaborative (a few faculty) initiatives. This year we especially encourage faculty to revise and develop courses for the FYE program or to fulfill the Critical Perspectives requirements. Proposals to recast required departmental courses taught by most members of the department will also be considered.

Representatives from the Divisional Committees and the General Education Oversight Committees will evaluate the proposals and make awards. The awards will be modest grants to support the time involved in course development. Work should occur during the summer or over half-block. It is expected that faculty members receiving the grants will work closely with library liaisons in identifying resources for the course.

Course Revision grants of $2,000.00 will be awarded for significantly revised courses; assuming two full weeks of focused effort (~80-100 hours of work)

Course Development grants of $4,000.00 will be awarded for creation of new courses; assuming four full weeks of focused effort (~160-200 hours)

Criteria for Proposals:

Course Revisions

What is being revised (lectures, readings, topics, projects...)?

How will these changes improve student learning?

How do the changes meet the criteria for Critical Perspectives or for FYE? Or, in the case of required departmental courses, what problems require attention, and how do you propose dealing with them?

Course Development

What gap in the FYE or Critical Perspectives offerings does the course fill?

What pedagogical approaches inform the course and how are these likely to enhance learning?

Here are the guidelines for submission of proposals:

1. Please submit proposals to Jeff Noblett for the General Education Oversight Committee by March 28, 2008 (end of the first week of block 7). Provide the original and 4 copies if submitting a hard-copy application. Applications may be submitted electronically to kferguson@coloradocolege.edu.

2. Applicants must be full-time or adjunct members of the faculty. Faculty who hold temporary on-going, full-time appointments may apply, but will receive a lower priority ranking on their proposals than other faculty. 

3. Awards will be made without regard to divisional or departmental quotas; each application will be judged on its own merits.

4. Applications must include the following information in this order:

            a. Name of faculty member.

            b. Current date.

            c. Course Title.

            d. A short rationale for developing the new course or revising an existing course.  

            e. A detailed course description, explaining the goals, the readings, discussions, papers or projects central to the course. If the course fulfills the Critical Perspectives or the FYE requirement, relate the course design to the criteria as specifically as possible. Discuss the teaching pedagogy you propose to use to enhance student learning in the course. 

            f. An old syllabus for comparison, if applicable; a new tentative outline or syllabus.

            g. An estimate of the duration of the project.

5. Results: At the completion of the project, faculty members will submit a revised syllabus to the review committee. After teaching the course, faculty members will submit a summary of the student evaluations and an assessment of the results of the changes.

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TO: First and Second-Year Faculty

FROM: Susan Ashley, Dean of the College/Dean of the Faculty

DATE: January 22, 2008

The Norman B. Smith Faculty Fund

Summer Curriculum Development Grant

Norm Smith, Class of 1942, recently endowed a fund dedicated to helping to improve the quality of undergraduate teaching by supporting recently-hired faculty at the College through merit awards to celebrate high quality teaching, incentive awards to enhance teaching, and/or summer stipends for faculty in their first and second years at the College to help prepare courses.

After consulting with younger faculty, we decided this year to use the income from the endowment to support one $4000 stipend for course development for the equivalent of a four-week period during the summer. You can propose to develop an introductory or advanced course, a course in the department or an interdisciplinary program, an FYE offering or one designed for Critical Perspectives credit.

As specified by the donor, faculty in their first and second years at the College are eligible to apply.

Guidelines for submission of proposals:

Please submit proposals to Jeff Noblett for the General Education Oversight Committee by March 28, 2008 (end of the 1 st week of block 7). Provide the original and 4 copies if submitting a hard-copy application. Applications may be submitted electronically to kferguson@coloradocolege.edu .

Applications must include the following information in this order:

            a. Name of faculty member.

            b. Current date.

           c. Course Title.

            d. A short rationale for developing the new course.  

            e. A detailed course description, explaining the goals, the readings, discussions, papers or projects central to the course. If the course fulfills the Critical Perspectives or the FYE requirement, relate the course design to the criteria as specifically as possible. Discuss the teaching pedagogy you propose to use to enhance student learning in the course. 

            f. An estimate of the duration of the project.

Results: At the completion of the project, faculty members will submit a syllabus to the review committee. After teaching the course, faculty members will submit a summary of the student evaluations and an assessment of the results of the changes.

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Faculty Opportunity Grants –2008-2009

Rationale: In an effort to expand support for scholarship, the Dean’s Office offers resources to faculty members interested in exploring new interests or in reviving projects postponed due to heavy college and departmental commitments. This fund supports a variety of initiatives, including per diem supplements to the standard college conference travel grants, books for reading programs, preparation for collaborative research initiatives, visits to laboratories and libraries for preliminary investigations.

Guidelines for submission of proposals:

1. Please submit proposals to Susan Ashley by March 28, 2008 (end of the first week of Block 7) . Provide the original and three copies if submitting a hard-copy application. Applications may also be submitted electronically to pspoelman@ColoradoCollege.edu.

2. Applicants must be full-time or adjunct members of the faculty who have not received significant college funding for research (substantial divisional funds, development blocks, MacArthur awards, mini-sabbaticals) in the last three years.

3. Each application will be judged on its own merits.

4. Applications should include the following information, in this order:

a. Name of faculty member.

b. Current date.

c. Description of the project.

d. An explanation of how the grant would contribute to the applicant’s scholarly development.

e. The budget.

5. Reports. The recipient must provide an account (and accounting) of the activities supported by the grant and an assessment of their results.

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TO: All Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty

FROM: Research and Faculty Development Board

DATE: February 22, 2008

RE: Benezet Summer Research Grants

The College will provide up to six Benezet Summer Research Grants in 2008, each in the amount of $4000. The Benezet Summer Grants may underwrite scholarly travel, equipment, books, or other similar expenses related directly to the project. The Research and Development Board will review applications and make the awards. The Benezet award emphasizes scholarly or creative achievement in accordance with the guidelines given below.

Here are the guidelines for submission of proposals:

1. Applications are to be submitted to the R & D Board, c/o Office of the Dean of the College no later than March 24, 2008. Please submit the original and 4 copies if submitting a hard copy application. Applications may be submitted electronically to kferguson@coloradocollege.edu.

2. Applicants must be full-time or adjunct members of the faculty. Faculty who hold temporary appointments will receive a lower priority ranking on their proposals than other faculty. This is not to say that the Board will deny all such proposals but rather that in the case of difficult decisions, good proposals from regular faculty will be ranked higher than proposals from short-term, full-time faculty.

3. Awards will be made without regard to divisional or departmental quotas; each application will be judged strictly on its scholarly merits.

4. Proposals for Benezet Completion grants should demonstrate:

a. that the research project is likely to resolve or reveal issues of significance, add to original scholarship, or contribute to creative work, as in art or music, in the field of the proposal, and

b. the faculty member's competence and preparation to carry the project to completion within approximately one year after the summer of the award. "Completion" refers to publication, presentation to a professional organization, or some other form of presentation to scholars outside Colorado College.

5. Proposals for Benezet Start-up projects are expected to demonstrate that the faculty member is in the beginning stages of a major contribution to original scholarship or creative work. Proposals should discuss the central problems of the project, indicate clearly what portions are expected to be completed during the summer, and provide an approximate time-table for the entire activity together with suggested plans for its completion. Completion of the summer portion of the project should result in a report to the R & D Board by November 1, 2008, which would be suitable for presentation to a professional organization (as a Research Report, proposal for an exhibition or a performance, for example) or for publication.

6. The Benezet Summer Grants are designed to aid research or creative effort that could be judged critically by national experts in the field of the endeavor. They are not intended to further programs of reading, to assist in course preparation and curriculum development, or to initiate investigations that have no clear promise of completion.

Benezet proposals must include the following information in this order.

a. A description of the project.

b. A clear statement about how the criteria will be met.

c. A statement regarding any other summer commitments during the period of the grant. The proposed research project is expected to be the recipient's major effort during the period of the grant. Applicants cannot teach in the summer in which they have been awarded a Benezet grant.

d. A statement regarding the expected time of completion of the project.

e. A list of other grants applied for or already awarded which concern the topic of the proposal (e.g., Research and Development Blocks, Jackson Blocks, divisional research grants, or grants from outside the College). Application for other grants will not prejudice a summer award proposal. In the event that a comparable outside grant is awarded for the same period, however, the recipient will be expected to notify the Research and Development Board and to give up the Benezet Grant. For example, because a MacArthur Professor receives a summer stipend he/she would not be eligible to apply for a Benezet grant. 

f. A vita, including the applicant's recent publications, presentations, current research activity, and preparation for the Benezet project.

g. The Research and Development Board reserves the right to ask faculty members at the College and elsewhere to appraise the proposals submitted to the Board, and to award a smaller number of grants if applications do not meet the criteria.

h. Recipients of summer grants will be expected to submit a report of their work within one year after the summer of the grant, and may be asked to present their findings to the faculty in a special program such as the Faculty Luncheon series.

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TO: All Non-Tenured, Tenure-Track Faculty

FROM: Research and Faculty Development Board

DATE: February 22, 2008

RE: Mrachek Fellowship Program for Non-Tenured, Tenure-Track Faculty

The College is very pleased to once again announce the Mrachek Fellowship program designed for non-tenured, tenure-track faculty in their first four years at the College, thanks to the generous support of alumnus William Mrachek >66. The Mrachek Fellowship provides $4000 support for the development of a faculty member =s research agenda in the years leading up to tenure. The funds may be used over the summer following the conferral of the Fellowship or through the following academic year. The funds may underwrite scholarly travel, salary for student research assistants engaged in a collaborative project with the Mrachek Fellow, equipment, books, or other similar expenses related directly to the research project, or may be used simply as a summer research grant to provide release time for the pursuit of the proposed project (in which case the $4000 would be taxable income).

The Research and Development Board will review applications and make the awards. The Mrachek Fellowship award emphasizes scholarly or creative achievement in accordance with the guidelines given below. Two Mrachek Fellowships will be awarded for the summer of >08 academic year >08-09. Recipients must be non-tenured, tenure-track faculty in the first four years at the College.

The Mrachek Fellows will be expected to submit a report of their work within one year after the conferral of the award and to present their work, informally, at a dinner with the President and Mr. Mrachek in the spring semester. The College will be pleased to honor both the newly named Fellows and the current Fellows at such a dinner annually.

Here are the guidelines for submission of proposals:

1. Applications are to be submitted to the R & D Board, c/o Office of the Dean of the College no later than March 24, 2008. Please submit the original and 4 copies if submitting a hard copy application. Applications may be submitted electronically to kferguson@coloradocollege.edu

2. Applicants must be Non-Tenured, Tenure-Track Faculty members.

• The Mrachek proposals must include the following information in this order.
• a. A description of the project and of the intended use of the funds.
• b. A clear statement about how the criteria will be met. 
• c. A statement regarding the expected time of completion of the project.
• d. A list of other grants applied for or already awarded which concern the topic of the proposal (e.g., Research and Development Blocks, Jackson Blocks, divisional research grants, or grants from outside the College). In the event that a comparable outside grant is awarded for the same period the recipient will be expected to notify the Research and Development Board and to give up the Mrachek Grant. For example, because a MacArthur Professor receives research funds and a release block, he/she would not be eligible to apply for a Mrachek Fellowship.
• A vita, including the applicant's recent publications, presentations, current research activity, and preparation for the Mrachek project.

4. The Research and Development Board reserves the right to ask faculty members at the College and elsewhere to appraise the proposals submitted to the Board, and to award a smaller number of fellowships if applications do not meet the criteria. 

5. Recipients of the Mrachek Fellowship will be expected to submit a report of their work within one year after the conferral of the grant, and will be asked to present their findings to the President, Mr. Mrachek and selected guests in a special program in the following spring semester.

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TO:                  Colorado College Faculty                                                                 

FROM:            Jeff Noblett, Associate Dean of the Faculty

DATE:             September, 2009

RE:                  The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Grant

The Colorado College, through the generosity of the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, has about $15,000 of funding available for faculty proposals for course development and affiliation/exchange development for 2009-10 and summer 2010, and is now ready to receive applications. The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor (CJE) committee encourages innovative, discipline-specific and interdisciplinary proposals, including ‘team’ proposals clearly grounded in the curricular needs of College departments and programs. Faculty proposing such courses or programs should expect to work closely with the Faculty Director of International Studies, Charlotte Blessing, the Director of the Office of International Programs, Heather Browne, and with the International Studies Oversight Committee in the development and implementation stages of their proposals.

The CJE Foundation Endowment contains four major components:
1) Increasing access to international study abroad programs for students with high financial need (this will occur under a separate student application process overseen by Jim Swanson).

2) Selectively increasing the number of Colorado College international programs, including department-specific programs.

3) Improving the international programs already established at Colorado College.

4) Broadening the range of the College’s internationally-oriented courses and semester/block study abroad programs.

The following sorts of projects are eligible for Johnson Endeavor Grant support:

1. Travel expenses related to the development of study-abroad courses, courses with major international studies components, or the establishment of student or faculty exchanges/programs with specific international institutions.

2. Tutt Library purchase of books and/or video equipment related to international curriculum at the college.

The following items are excluded from Johnson Endeavor Grant support:

1. Research or study salaries or similar stipends for faculty members.
2. Sabbatical supplementary salary payments.
3. Expenses associated with work toward an advanced degree.

How to submit a proposal:

1. CJE Foundation Grant proposals should contain the following sections in this order:

a) Name of principal applicant

b) Current date

c) Short title of the proposal

d) An introduction, including a statement concerning the purpose of the project

e) An explanation of the process and time-line to be followed in the development of the course or exchange program and an explanation of the ways in which you will assess the success of your endeavor (presumably a successful outcome occurs with the implementation of the course or program but please provide an overview of the steps toward that end)

f) The proposed, itemized budget (please note that the CJE committee may ask applicants to also consider alternative or supplementary funding sources, such as divisional and departmental/program funds)

g) A justification of the budget

h) If applicable, a statement explaining student impact beyond the classroom

i) An estimate of the duration of the project and an approximate date at which the funds will be expended

j) Other information which you consider appropriate

2. Travel expense proposals should contain the following information in this order:

a) Name of the principal applicant

b) Current date

c) The reasons for the travel grant request and the anticipated outcome of the travel

d) Itemized budget

e) Other information which you consider appropriate

3. Other information and guidelines:

a) Submit one electronic copy of the proposal to the Office of the Associate Dean of the Faculty

b) Proposals involving travel requests and course/exchange development projects must include the information requested in both (1) and (2) above

Budgets should be calculated following the Divisional Research and Development Funding guidelines. The CJE Grant will cover airfare and housing (R&D guidelines apply for both).

Deadlines:

October 12, 2009 (beginning of third week of Block 2) for projects and grant-related travel to be undertaken during the 2009-10 academic year or during summer 2010.

February 10, 2010 (the final Wednesday of Block 5) for a second round, if funds are still available.

Business Office procedures:   After the CJE committee approves a grant, the Dean’s Office notifies the Business Office, which in turn assigns the grant an account number. The grantee may draw on the grant by requisition for actual expenditures (receipts required) or by means of an advance to be settled later by an accounting of expenditures, including receipts.

Special Requirements:

1. Faculty members in a terminal year may apply for grants only if the project/course upon which they are working will be continued by other faculty at the College.

2. Part-time faculty members are not eligible to apply for grants. Adjunct faculty are eligible to apply for grants.

3. A grantee cannot receive a supplemental grant in a subsequent year to offset a failure to cover expenses with an earlier grant.

4. If a faculty member makes a substantial revision of a project, he or she should notify the Dean’s Office and seek its approval of the change.

5. Grantees may apply for continuations of projects already underway.

6. Grantees must submit reports to the Dean’s Office at the end of the grant period, summarizing achievements and expenditures. The grantee cannot be considered for additional support until this report is filed.

7. In the event that proposed travel plans must be delayed for safety reasons, as for example when the State Department issues a warning to US citizens against travel to a particular country or region, the grant period may be extended.