Entry-Level Course Planning Grant (ELCP) Application
Instructions
This grant program is designed for faculty to discuss their
department’s entry-level courses. This
program would fund a day’s or a few days’ meetings, meals, and a facilitator,
if needed. Entry-level courses are the
first course a student encounters in your discipline, so it could be your 100
or 111, or any courses where students start in your field, like Business 200,
Marketing 300, Education 210, Engineering 150, Social Work 281, etc.
The ideas behind this program are that a department’s
faculty would gather to discuss just what students are supposed to learn in
their department’s first courses and what the best ways are to have students to
learn them. Possibly you want to parse
out what should be common across sections and what should be left to individual
teachers. Perhaps you want to make it
more inquiry-based, or examine measures that would tell you if new approaches
are more effective. Maybe your
department wants to improve students’ writing skills across all sections of the
course.
Costs should be calculated at $100 per faculty member per
day, plus costs for meals, a stipend for the organizer, a facilitator, or
books, if those are requested. Funds
available in 2007-08 are $20,000. The
deadline for proposals is May 4, 2007. Submit
seven copies of your proposal. Send
them to the address on the last page.
The length of the narrative should not exceed four pages with a 12-point
font.
Guidelines
for proposal narrative
1. Brief Abstract (~200 words)
2. Rationale / Need for the project: Describe the teaching methodology currently
used in the course(s). Is there
evidence it should be changed? What
aspects of students' learning will be affected? How?
3. Goals: State your goals for the
project. What do you hope emerges from
these discussions? Do you have both
broad and specific goals, e.g. implementing a more problem-based, thinking
approach, or revision of labs or writing assignments?
4. Project activities: What do you propose to do? Indicate what specific products (syllabi,
curricular structure, etc.) may result from your work.
5. Preparation
for the project: Is there previous
work that relates to the project? For example, team members might have attended
a conference on a particular pedagogical technique, read books or articles
about this approach, analyzed student outcomes, or observed classes that employ
the methodology you wish to implement.
6. Evaluation: How will you assess whether you have met your objectives? How will you know that students’ thinking
skills are improved (i.e. is there a good evaluation plan)?
Entry-Level Course Planning (ELCP) Grant Application Cover Sheet
Name
:_____________________________ Dept./Program: _____________________
Mail # ______________Phone #
_________ E-mail:___________________________
1. Title of
proposed project:
2. Description of project suitable for
use in publicity and reporting to a general audience (not to exceed 50 words;
avoid use of jargon):
3.
Intended start date: _______________
Project duration (in months):
________
4. Total amount
requested: ___________
5. Have you
previously received Bush Grant funds?
___ Yes ___ No
If yes, please describe:
6. Estimate the number of undergraduate
students who will be affected by this project, e.g. __ number of students in __
sections of a course offered __ each year = ___
2) Budget Format page for Entry-Level Course Planning (ELCP) Grants
· Applicants are expected to provide
reasonably detailed estimates of all expenses.
· Capital equipment (>$500) may not be
purchased with these funds.
· The Proposal Narrative should give reviewers
adequate justification for general categories of expenses. Detailed expenses and other calculations
must be provided in a Budget Explanation.
· Other sources of funding should be detailed
in a Budget Explanation, as applicable:
· Indicate whether or not you have applied for
internal or external funding of this project in addition to UST’s Bush
Foundation grant. As appropriate, list
names of funding programs, both internal and external, and specify which
expenses those programs are expected to cover.
This should also be reflected on the Budget form and in supporting
documentation (such as a letter of commitment).
· If currently funded by any UST Bush
Foundation grants, list the grant type, year of award, and project title of
each grant received.
BUDGET ITEM Grant Request Other Funding Total
1. Personnel /
Director Stipend __________ ___________ ___________
2. Travel expenses ___________ ___________ ___________
a. Lodging ___________
b. Transportation ___________
c. Meals ___________
d. Conference Fee ___________
e. Other (give detail) ___________
3.
Supplies, e.g. books
and refreshments ___________ ___________ ___________
4. Duplicating, postage, telephone __________
5. Other (provide detail) ___________ ___________ ___________
TOTAL REQUESTED: ___________ ___________ ___________
3) Grant Application Checklist
Submit the application to: Dr. Vanca Schrunk, Mail # JRC
432.
Check that your application package contains seven complete,
collated copies of the following:
___ A. Cover Sheet
___ B. Proposal Narrative
___ C. Budget
Format page and Budget Explanation (not required
for Seed Grants)
___ D. Copies of
supporting documentation, if applicable
___ E. Two-page
vitae (not required for Core and Core Area Grants)
___ F. Grant
Application Checklist (this sheet, signed and dated)
Other items to acknowledge:
___ G. Final reports
I do not have any final reports due for previous UST Bush
grants.
___ H. Protection of Human Subjects of Research
I understand that if my research will involve human
subjects, I must seek approval from UST's Institutional Review Board for the
Protection of Human Subjects of Research (IRB) before beginning the project.
See the IRB website for information: http://www.stthomas.edu/irb
___ I. Final Report
Within three months of my project’s completion date, I agree to submit to Program Coordinator
Vanca Shrunk (c/o Bush Grant Mail # JRC 432, idschrunk@stthomas.edu, 2-5740)
the following: 1) a project evaluation report, 2) an accounting of funds spent,
and 3) assessment results. I understand that submission of this final report is
a prerequisite for any future funding from UST’s Bush grant for Collaborative
Inquiry.
Applicant
Signature:___________________________________________ Date:____________