The United States Department of Education Transition to Teaching
program encourages the development and expansion of alternative
routes to full state teacher certification as well as the recruitment
and retention of highly qualified mid-career professionals, recent
college graduates who have not majored in education, and highly
qualified paraprofessionals as teachers in high-need schools operated
by high-need Local Education Agencies (LEAs), including charter
schools that operate at high-need LEAs. Eligible applicants include
institutions of higher education in partnership with a high need
LEA or State Education Agency (SEA). There are two competitive
preference priorities for this program:
- Partnerships or Consortia that Include a High-need
LEA or a High-need SEA -- This priority supports projects
that are designed and implemented in active partnerships or
consortia that include at least one high-need LEA or high-need
SEA. The Department of Education will award 5 additional points
to an application that meets this priority.
- District Projects to Streamline Teacher Hiring Systems,
Timelines, and Processes -- This priority supports
projects by one or more high-need LEAs to streamline their hiring
systems, timelines, and processes. The Department of Education
will award up to an additional 10 points to an application that
meets this priority. The LEA(s) will need to conduct the following
activities: examine its (their) current hiring system(s), processes,
and policies to identify the critical barriers to hiring highly
qualified teachers; and design and implement efforts to remove
the identified barriers and put in place systems that streamline
and revamp the hiring process.
The Department of Education has established separate funding
categories according to the scope of projects, as follows:
- National/regional projects serving eligible high-need LEAs
in more than one state. Award amounts are estimated to range
from $350,000 - $750,000 per year with an estimated average
size of $600,000 per year. The Department of Education will
make approximately 5 of these awards.
- Statewide projects serving eligible high-need LEAs statewide
or LEAs in more than one area of a state. Award amounts are
estimated to range from $250,000 - $650,000 per year with an
estimated average size of $375,000 per year. The Department
of Education will make approximately 20 awards in this category.
- Local projects serving one eligible high-need LEA or two
or more high-need LEAs in a single area of a state. Award amounts
are estimated to range from $150,000 - $450,000 per year with
an estimated average size of $225,000 per year. The Department
of Education expects to make approximately 40 awards of this
type.
The actual level of funding, if any, will depend on final congressional
action. The project period is up to 60 months.
No cost sharing or matching is required.
The primary purpose of the United States Department of Justice
“Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual
Assault, and Stalking on Campus” program is to develop and
strengthen victim services in cases involving domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campuses and
to strengthen security and investigative strategies to prevent
and prosecute such crimes. Eligible applicants are individual
institutions of higher education as well as a consortium or a
flagship of higher education institutions. Applicants must address
at least one of the following program purpose areas relating to
crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault,
and stalking on campus:
- Provide personnel, training, technical assistance, data collection,
and other equipment with respect to the increased apprehension,
investigation, and adjudication of persons committing such crimes.
- Develop and implement campus policies, protocols, and services
that more effectively identify and respond to such crimes and
to train campus administrators, security personnel, and personnel
serving on campus disciplinary or judicial boards on such policies,
protocols, and services.
- Implement and operate education programs for the prevention
of such crimes.
- Develop, enlarge, or strengthen victim services programs
on campuses, including programs providing legal, medical, or
psychological counseling for victims and improve delivery of
victim assistance. Not less than 20% of grant funds must be
designated for this priority.
- Create, disseminate, or otherwise provide assistance and
information about victims’ options on and off campus to
bring disciplinary or other legal action.
- Develop, install, or expand data collection and communication
systems, including computerized systems, linking campus security
to local law enforcement for the purpose of identifying and
tracking arrests, protection orders, violations of such orders,
prosecutions, and convictions with respect to such crimes.
- Provide capital improvements (lighting, communication facilities,
etc., but not building construction) on campuses to address
such crimes.
- Support improved coordination among campus administrators,
security personnel, and local law enforcement to reduce such
crimes.
Institutions are encouraged to adopt and publicize policies that
encourage students to report such crimes even though alcohol,
drug, and other illegal activities may be involved; however, this
program will not fund projects that focus primarily on alcohol
and substance abuse.
All applicants must comply with the following requirements:
- Create a coordinated community response to violence against
women on campus. This multidisciplinary response should involve
the entire campus (students, student organizations, faculty/staff,
administrators, relevant academic departments, law enforcement/public
safety, etc.) as well as the larger community. Applicants must
develop partnerships with at least one local nonprofit, nongovernmental
victim services organization within the community and one or
more criminal justice or civil legal agencies (external law
enforcement, prosecution, civil legal assistance providers,
judiciary and court personnel, etc.).
- Establish a mandatory prevention and education program about
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking
for all incoming students.
- Train campus police to respond effectively to such crimes.
- Establish or strengthen programs to train members of campus
disciplinary boards to respond effectively to charges of such
crimes.
Awards of up to $300,000 will be made for individual projects,
$500,000 for consortia projects, and $1,000,000 for flagship projects.
All awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
The award period is 36 months.
URL: http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/docs/finalcampussolicitation07.pdf
Opportunity for Faculty
Members in the College of Liberal Arts
Teaching
American History Grant Program
Agency: United States Department of Education
Deadline: February 7, 2007 for notice of intent
to apply
March
9, 2007 for full application
The United States Department of Education Teaching American History
grant program supports projects designed to increase student achievement
by improving teachers’ knowledge, understanding, and appreciation
of traditional American history. Eligible applicants are Local
Education Agencies (LEAs) that must work in partnership with one
or more of the following entities: an institution of higher education,
a non-profit history or humanities organization, or a library
or museum. The grants will assist the LEAs, in partnership with
those entities, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate
innovative, cohesive models of professional development. For this
competition there is one absolute priority in addition to two
competitive preference priorities. The absolute priority requires
the LEA to work in partnership with one or more of the above-named
entities. Competitive preference priorities are:
- School Districts with Schools in Need of Improvement,
Corrective Action, or Restructuring – projects
that help such districts implement academic and structural interventions
in schools that have been identified for improvement, corrective
action, or restructuring under the No Child Left Behind Act
of 2001. Up to 15 additional points will be awarded depending
on how well the application meets this priority.
- Student Achievement Data –projects
that collect pre- and post-intervention test data to asses the
effects of the projects on the academic achievement of student
participants relative to appropriate comparison or control groups.
Up to 10 additional points will be awarded to applications meeting
this priority.
The project period is up to 36 months. Total funding for the
three-year period is a maximum of $500,000 for LEAs with enrollments
of less than 20,000 students; $1,000,000 for LEAs with enrollments
of 20,000 – 300,000 students, and $2,000,000 for LEAs with
enrollments or more than 300,000 students. LEAs may form consortia
and combine their enrollments in order to receive a higher award.
The actual level of funding, if any, will depend on final congressional
action. The Department of Education anticipates making 120 –
135 awards.
No cost sharing or matching is required.
URL: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-33.pdf
(Federal Register announcement)
http://www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/index.html
(Program page)
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Opportunity for Faculty
Members in the Arts
Access
to Artistic Excellence
Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
Deadline: March 12, 2007
August
13, 2007
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Access to Artistic
Excellence program is intended to encourage and support artistic
creativity, preserve our diverse cultural heritage, and make the
arts more widely available in communities throughout America.
While projects may focus on just one of these areas, many of the
most effective projects encompass both artistic excellence and
enhanced access. The NEA is particularly interested in projects
that extend the arts to underserved populations, i.e. those whose
opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography,
ethnicity, economics, or disability. Grants range from $5,000
- $150,000 with most awards ranging from $10,000 to $100,000.
Support may be up to two years. All grants require a nonfederal
match of at least 1 to 1. For guidelines and information on areas
of support within specific disciplines, prospective applicants
should click on the discipline that is most appropriate for the
proposed project at the URL listed below.
URL: http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/index.htm
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Opportunities for
Faculty Members in National Science Foundation-Supported Disciplines
National
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital
Library (NSDL), Usage Development Workshops
Agency: National Science Foundation
Deadline: March 14, 2007 for (optional) letters
of intent
April
11, 2007 for full proposals
The National Science Foundation’s Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program is accepting
proposals, under its Services track, for Usage Development Workshops.
The purpose of the NSDL program is to establish a national digital
library that will constitute an online network of learning environments
and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) education at all levels. Projects under the Services track
are expected to develop services that support users, resource
collection providers, and the Core Integration effort and that
enhance the impact, efficiency, and value of the NSDL.
Usage Development Workshops projects will support workshop series
promoting the use of NSDL and its resources by various communities
of learners. Examples of possible workshop emphases include development
of leadership teams of faculty and librarians seeking joint expertise
in the use of digital libraries that would in turn be shared with
a local institutional or organizational audience; assistance for
teachers and students at K-12 schools or colleges having limited
computer capability and technical support; experiences to increase
the library's usability for special populations such as young
children or other users having limited experience with computer
technology; or engagement of users of digital resources within
a specific STEM domain.
Simultaneous with the development of a user base for NSDL, the
workshops will permit the study of user information-seeking behavior
and user interaction with specific NSDL content. Projects should
report feedback from these observations that can guide further
development of NSDL and make its overall resources more useful.
Workshops should seek to improve both the capacity of individual
users and the capacity of the larger community of learners. Such
capacity would inform both research on building and sustaining
user communities within the context of the digital library and
research on uses of digital libraries to improve learning by students
at all levels.
While it is expected that the majority of funds in project budgets
will be directed towards participant support costs, funding for
the development of resources to be used by workshop participants
may be requested. In all cases such materials should be made available
via NSDL for use in subsequent workshops or by interested individuals
or groups seeking to develop an understanding of the capabilities
of NSDL. In addition, any materials and other resources developed
by workshop participants should be suitably described with appropriate
item-level metadata and contributed to NSDL. Projects are expected
to provide models for how their approaches can be applied to other
learning communities sharing similar characteristics.
Prospective applicants may request small grant support under this
initiative. NSF expects to make 15 to 20 small grant awards of
up to $100,000 each with a duration of up to 24 months. The estimated
program budget, number of awards, and average award size and duration
are subject to the availability of funds.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07538/nsf07538.htm
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Ethics
Education in Science and Engineering (EESE)
Agency: NASD Investor Education Foundation
Deadline: April 10, 2007
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Ethics Education
in Science and Engineering (EESE) program considers proposals
for research and educational projects to improve ethics education
in all fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, including
in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts. Proposals
must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students
in those fields, or on developing summer post-baccalaureate ethics
education activities or activities that transition students from
undergraduate to graduate education. The program will entertain
proposals in graduate ethics education in science and engineering
generally, but is particularly interested in proposals addressing
issues involving the international or global context and those
addressing issues of intellectual property, including scientific
publishing.
EESE will accept proposals for research projects, education projects,
and combinations of the two. It is interested in innovative projects
likely to create long-term improvement in ethics education for
graduate students that go well beyond standard approaches. Education
projects must be based on research findings that indicate successful
ways to enhance ethics education for graduate students. They may
include such activities as mentoring programs, infrastructure-development
activities, faculty capacity-building, and graduate student involvement
in program development. Projects to develop and test new materials
or tools or teaching techniques are also eligible. Projects should
test the feasibility and effectiveness of their activities or
programs in more than one institution. Research projects should
build on earlier relevant research in ethics or education or other
relevant fields and add to the research base. Proposals should
specify plans to deliver findings to appropriate research and
educational communities and assist them in implementing projects
or programs based on the findings. Proposals may also combine
research and education components. For instance, the first year
of a project might examine ethics education for graduate students
in a scientific or engineering field. The second year might implement
programs on several campuses based on what was discovered. Repetition
and modification, evaluation and diffusion might occur during
the third year. The EESE program will not consider proposals that
will start or provide incremental improvement to formal or informal
educational activities responsive to Federal mandates for research
integrity of human subjects training requirements.
An institution may submit only one proposal to this program as
the lead institution. There is no limit on the number of proposals
under which an institution may be included as a non-lead collaborator
or subawardee. The maximum award amount is expected to be $300,000,
and the maximum duration is expected to be 36 months. NSF anticipates
making 5 -12 awards.
Cost sharing is not required.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07541/nsf07541.htm
Opportunity for Faculty
Members in The College of Business and Economics
2007
General Grant Program
Agency: NASD Investor Education Foundation
Deadline: February 26, 2007 for First Cycle applications
August
10, 2007 for Second Cycle applications
In partnership with the National Endowment for Financial Education,
the NASD Investor Education Foundation General Grant Program funds
research and/or educational projects to improve investor education
and protection in the United States. In 2007, the NASD Foundation
is especially interested in applications that focus on the following
areas:
- Behavioral finance
- Retirement income security of older Americans
- New marketing and distribution channels for investor education.
Of particular interest are projects that:
- Expand the body of knowledge and/or provide practical materials
that will have a positive impact on investor education or protection.
- Use research methods to improve disclosure to investors about
investments and financial services.
- Encourage investors to check the background of financial
professionals prior to doing business with them.
- Empower the nation’s young people who are about to
enter the workforce to better prepare for retirement and to
meet other financial goals.
- Better prepare older Americans for handling their finances
during retirement.
- Encourage women and minority populations to take control
of their financial future through investor education.
- Advance practice, policy, and thought in the fields of investor
education and protection.
NASD supports three types of projects:
- Educational projects or programs that respond to an unmet
investor education or protection need for a target audience.
- Research that expands the body of knowledge and offers solutions
in the field of investor education and protection.
- Combination of research and educational programs for initiatives
that lead with a research element and follow with a high-impact
investor education or investor protection project based upon
the results of the research.
For educational projects, the NASD Foundation places a high priority
on broad distribution and replication. Successful education projects
will be highly practical and serve large numbers of Americans.
Preference will be given to projects that can be sustained beyond
the term of grant funding. Applicants should develop viable outreach
plans to attract and reach the target audience. In addition, applicants
are encouraged to collaborate and partner with organizations that
can assist in distributing project deliverables.
There is no set minimum or maximum grant amount. In considering
grant requests, the merits of the proposed work are the primary
focus. In 2006, grants ranged from $153,725 to $629,310; the average
award was $421,031. Projects should be completed within 18-24
months of the award. This year there are two application cycles,
as listed above under Deadlines. The NASD Foundation will hold
conference calls to answer general questions about this program.
Prospective applicants are encouraged to participate in one of
the following call sessions: January 24 at 11:00 am EST or February
9 at 2:00 pm EST. Registration instructions can be found at the
URL below.
URL: http://www.nasdfoundation.org/general07.asp
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