Agency: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration
for Children and Families
Deadline: May 29, 2007 (for strongly encouraged but not required) letters of intent
June 26, 2007 for proposals
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing the availability of funds to support grants for secondary analysis of data from a variety of Head Start-related sources. The analysis should be designed to inform policy and practice related to Head Start program characteristics that influence child outcomes. Program characteristics of interest include classroom, teacher, and curriculum characteristics, characteristics of the families and children served, as well as variables related to program administration. Priority will be given to applications that address questions that are likely to be of practical use in understanding how to improve outcomes for children and families who participate in Head Start. Applicants must plan to use at least one of the following datasets but may include additional data sources as well. The datasets are:
- Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
- The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey
- National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study
- Comprehensive Child Development Program
Awards are for 24 months, and the average estimated amount is $100,000 ($50,000 per year). ACF anticipates making up to 10 awards. Cost sharing is not required. Awards are subject to the availability of funds.
URL: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2007-ACF-OPRE-YR-0027.html
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Individual Opportunity for Faculty Members in the Humanities
NEH 2008 Summer Stipends
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: September 4, 2007 (internal deadline for project summary submitted to
the College of Graduate Studies and Research, Office of University
Research Services)
October 2, 2007 for Towson University’s nominees and those exempted
from nomination*
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Summer Stipends program, supports individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public’s understanding of the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges and universities or independent scholars or writers. Faculty members teaching full-time at colleges and universities must be nominated by their institutions in order to apply for a Summer Stipend. Degree candidates may apply only if they have completed all work, including any kind of requirement for an oral defense of the dissertation, by October 1, 2007.
Summer Stipends awards provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Individuals who have held a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent within the last three academic years prior to the October 2, 2007 deadline are ineligible to apply. A major fellowship or research grant is a postdoctoral award of at least $10,000 that provides support for a continuous period of time equal to at least one term of the academic year; that enables the recipient to engage in scholarly research, personal study, professional development, or writing; and that comes from sources other than the recipient’s institution. Recipients may hold other research grants during this time but must devote full-time to their Summer Stipend projects for the two months of the stipend tenure.
Each college and university in the U.S. may nominate two faculty members. Each nominee may be either a junior faculty member (assistant professor, instructor, or a scholar at a comparably early stage of his or her career) or senior faculty member (associate professor or professor).
Please note: The Towson University College of Graduate Studies and Research will coordinate a nominating committee, in consultation with college deans of applicants from eligible disciplines, to review nomination materials and choose the University’s two nominees. As the NEH’s submission deadline is October 2, 2007, faculty members wishing to be considered should submit to the Office of University Research Services, by September 4, 2007, a one-page summary of their proposed projects. Interested faculty members may wish to consult the NEH guidelines for a description of what is expected in full application narratives. The summary submitted to the nominating committee should very briefly address the basic questions listed in the “project narrative” section of those guidelines.
*The following individuals may apply directly to the NEH, online, without a nomination:
- Adjunct faculty, part-time faculty, and applicants with academic appointments that will terminate by the summer of 2008
- Nonfaculty college and university staff members who will not be teaching during the 2007-2008 academic year
- Independent scholars not affiliated with a college or university
According to the act that established the NEH in 1965, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, theory and criticism of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
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