Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: March 3, 2008
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accepting proposals for grants that support national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers. Seminars and institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six weeks. Summer seminars and institutes:
- extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics, texts, and issues;
- enhance the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants;
- build a community of inquiry and provide models of excellent scholarship and teaching; and
- promote effective links between teaching and research in the humanities.
Seminars and institutes may be hosted by colleges, universities, school systems, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or other repositories, and cultural or professional organizations. The host site must be appropriate for the project, providing facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction.
Proposed programs may take the following formats:
- Seminar for school teachers – 15 participants
A seminar enables fifteen participants to explore a topic or set of readings under the guidance of a scholar with expertise in the field. Participants may, for example, examine an important text, study works of well-known authors, or review significant scholarship on an important historical period or event. The principal goals are to engage teachers in the humanities and deepen their understanding through reading, discussion, reflection, and writing in a manner that will help sustain their commitment to teaching. The director guides discussion of common readings and provides mentoring for individual study and projects.
- Institute for school teachers – 25 to 30 participants
An institute, which is typically guided by a team of core faculty and visiting scholars, presents the best available scholarship on important humanities issues and works taught in the nation’s schools. Participants may compare and synthesize the various perspectives offered by the faculty, make connections between institute content and classroom applications, and develop new teaching materials.
- Seminar for college and university teachers – 15 participants
A seminar enables participants with related interests to conduct scholarly research or focused study under the direction of an expert. The director designs a program of study to articulate key issues and focus on discussion in seminar meetings. The director also advises participants on their individual projects.
- Institute for college and university teachers – 25 participants
An institute focuses on a topic of major importance in undergraduate curricula. Guided by a team of scholars, participants explore a challenging and complex subject. The primary goal is to deepen understanding of a subject in order to advance humanities teaching.
NEH anticipates that awards for seminars will range between $45,000 and $120,000 in outright funds for a grant period of twelve months. Awards for institutes range from $80,000 to $200,000 in outright funds for a grant period of fifteen months.
Cost sharing is not required.
NEH staff will review and comment on preliminary drafts of proposals if they are submitted at least four weeks prior to the March 3, 2008 deadline.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html
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Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Agency: National Science Foundation
Deadlines: April 3, 2008
March 2, 2009
March 1, 2010
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its “Ethics Education in Science and Engineering” program (EESE), is inviting proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, especially in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts. Proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields, although the proposed programs may benefit advanced undergraduates in addition to graduate students.
EESE invites proposals for:
- Education projects, which must be based on research findings that indicate successful ways to enhance ethics education for graduate students. They may include a wide range of activities such as mentoring programs, infrastructure development activities, faculty capacity building activities, training of postdoctoral fellows to implement programs, and graduate student involvement in program development. EESE education projects should test the feasibility and effectiveness of their activities or programs in more than one institution, incorporate ways to diffuse project activities even further, and evaluate project effectiveness, including assessment of expected student outcomes.
- Research projects that examine ethics education for graduate students in science and engineering. Proposals should build on earlier relevant research in ethics or other relevant fields, and add to the research base. Research projects should suggest and explore creative, original, or potentially transformative concepts. Projects can include quantitative and/or qualitative approaches. Interdisciplinary partnerships among researchers in natural sciences and engineering and experts in social sciences, humanities, and education are strongly encouraged.
- Combinations of education and research projects, such as a project that proposes, in its first year, to examine ethics education for graduate students in a scientific or engineering field; in its second year, to implement programs over several campuses based on what was discovered; and then, in its third year, to repeat and modify activities, evaluate, and disseminate results of the work.
Limited Submission Program: An organization may submit only one proposal as the lead organization. Organizations submitting more than one proposal as the lead organization will be notified and given one week from notification to select one proposal for consideration. If one is not selected in that time period, all of the proposals submitted will be returned without review. There is no limit on the number of proposals under which an organization may be included as a non-lead collaborator or subawardee.
NSF expects project teams to include persons with appropriate expertise. This might include expertise in the domain or domains of science or engineering on which the project focuses, in ethics, in educational research, and in pedagogy.
The maximum award amount is expected to be $300,000, inclusive of indirect costs. Maximum duration is expected to be 36 months. Projects that include partnerships (for example, between universities and professional societies) for the purpose of disseminating best practices in graduate ethics education will be eligible for a maximum award amount of $400,000.
Cost sharing is not required.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08530/nsf08530.htm
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Professional Development for Arts Educators (PDAE) Program
Agency: US Department of Education (USDE)
Deadline: February 11, 2008 Letter of Intent (required)
February 29, 2008 Application deadline
This program supports the implementation of high quality professional development model programs in music, dance, drama, media arts, or visual arts, including folk arts, for arts educators and other instructional staff of kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12) students in high-poverty schools. Grants are intended to strengthen the capacity of teachers and schools to deliver standards-based arts education programs and to raise student academic achievement in the arts and ensure that all students meet challenging State academic content standards. For FY 2008, an absolute priority under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) considers only applications that use innovative instructional methods and current knowledge from education research and focus on:
- The development, enhancement, or expansion of standards-based arts education programs; or
- The integration of standards-based arts instruction with other core academic area content.
In order to meet this priority, an applicant must demonstrate that the project for which it seeks funding is linked to State and national standards intended to enable all students to meet challenging expectations, and to improve student and school performance.
The applicant, a local education agency (LEA), must meet the high-poverty criterion as stated in the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) in which 50 percent or more of the children enrolled are from low-income families. Additionally, the LEA must partner with one or more of the following:
- A State or local non-profit or governmental arts organization;
- A State educational agency (SEA) or regional educational service agency;
- An institution of higher education;
- A public or private agency, institution, or organization, including amuseum, an arts education association, a library, a theater, or a community- or faith-based organization.
Contingent upon the availability of funds and the quality of applications, USDE may make additional awards in FY 2009 from the list of unfunded applicants from this competition. The estimated range of awards will be between$100,000 – $350,000 for the first year and funding for the second and third years is subject to the availability of funds and project continuation. The average size of awards will be $200,000 for 36 months and an estimated number of 30 awards will be made Cost sharing is not required.
URL: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-217.pdf
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Opportunity for Faculty Members in the Arts
Grants for Art Projects
Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Deadlines: March 10, 2008 and August 11, 2008 for Access to Artistic Excellence
June 2, 2008 for Challenge America Fast Track
June 9, 2008 for Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just released new guidelines for Grants for Arts Projects (GAP), its major support categories for organizations. An organization may submit only one application in response to one of the following FY 2009 GAP opportunities:
- Access to Artistic Excellence encourages and supports artistic creativity, preserves our diverse cultural heritage, and makes the arts more widely available in communities throughout the country. While projects in this category may focus on just one of these areas, the Arts Endowment recognizes that many of the most effective projects encompass both artistic excellence and enhanced access. Support is available to organizations for projects that do one or more of the following:
- Provide opportunities for artists to create, refine, perform, and exhibit their work.
- Present artistic works of all cultures and periods.
- Preserve significant works of art and cultural traditions.
- Enable arts organizations and artists to expand and diversify their audiences.
- Provide opportunities for individuals to experience and participate in a wide range of art forms and activities.
- Enhance the effectiveness of arts organizations and artists.
- Employ the arts in strengthening communities
The Arts Endowment is particularly interested in projects that extend the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. This is achieved in part through the use of Challenge America: Reaching Every Community funds. Grants range from $5,000 - $100,000
- TheChallenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grantscategory offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations – those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Age alone (e.g., youth, seniors) does not qualify a group as underserved; at least one of the underserved characteristics noted here also must be present. This category, as an essential component of the Arts Endowment's goal of providing wide access to artistic excellence, supports local projects that can have significant effects within communities. Grants are available for professional arts programming and for projects that emphasize the potential of the arts in community development.
Partnerships can be valuable to the success of these projects. While not required, applicants are encouraged to consider partnerships among organizations, both in and outside of the arts, as appropriate to their project. Grants are for $10,000 each.
- The Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth category offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire knowledge and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. Funded projects apply national or state arts education standards. All projects submitted to the Learning in the Arts category must include:
- Experience: Students and their teachers will have the chance to experience exemplary works of art -- in live form where possible.
- Study: Through the guidance of teachers, teaching artists, and cultural organizations, students will study works of art in order to understand the cultural and social context from which they come, and to appreciate the technical and/or aesthetic qualities of each work. Where appropriate, study will include the acquisition of skills relevant to practicing the art form.
- Performance: Informed by their experience and study, students will create artwork. In the case of literature, the primary creative activities will be writing and/or recitation.
- Assessment: Students will be assessed according to national or state arts education standards. Where appropriate, projects will employ multiple forms of assessment including pre- and post-testing.
Learning in the Arts projects may take place in school-based or community-based settings and should focus on children and youth in the general age range of 5 through 18 years. Awards will range from $5,000 - $100,000.
LIMITED SUBMISSION PROGRAM: Since each applicant organization may submit only one proposal in response to this call for proposals, it will be necessary to internally coordinate submissions. Faculty members interested in applying to the Arts Endowment under one of these programs should submit a statement of interest, including a brief (one or two paragraph) project description to the Dean’s Office, College of Fine Arts and Communication, by February 23. If more than one individual or group is interested in submitting, that office will coordinate submission.
URL: http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/index.html
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