CST

Grants of up to $2,000 to support meetings, conferences and/or workshops for ACM faculty members. Proposals due to the ACM Office by February 15, 2005.

The ACM Advisory Board of Deans provides Faculty Development Grants of up to $2,000 to support a meeting, conference, seminar, workshop or visiting scholar program for ACM faculty members. Most recently, this program has funded classicists, economists, computer center directors, mathematicians, anthropologists, Latin Americanists and theater directors. Meetings may focus on such themes as disciplinary or interdisciplinary pedagogy, course or curriculum development, or emerging scholarship; or campus-wide concerns such as the use of information technology in scholarship and teaching, helping students develop as competent thinkers and communicators, or the development of institutional structures that support interdisciplinarity. Interested faculty should contact Jan Serie prior to proposal development.

a clear description of the goals of the project;
a description of the importance of the issues to faculty within a discipline or across a range of disciplines;
an explanation of the outcome of the project, including how it will contribute to curricular aims of the ACM colleges;
a preliminary agenda outlining the topics to be covered, the mode of interactions envisioned, and the outside speakers, if any, to be included;
an indication that faculty in the host institution, and in other ACM institutions, have been involved in the planning process.

Proposals should include a preliminary budget, which may include food and lodging for one participant from each college, administrative costs, and travel expenses and support costs for a visiting scholar. Each participating ACM college will pay travel costs for one person to attend a proposed meeting. Colleges may send more than on individual to meetings, but will have to bear the full costs of such participation. Ordinarily a request for funding should not exceed $1,500. Special consideration of expenses up to $2,000 can be given provide there is a compelling justification.

Proposals should be developed in consultation with Jan Serie, and must be endorsed by Dan Hornbach before being sent to the ACM Office. The Provost's endorsement must accompany the proposal. Faculty proposing projects should, if possible, indicate follow-up activities to signify that the project will have impact. Following the workshop, organizers will provide a report to the ACM office on the content and costs of the meeting.

Proposals received by February will be reviewed by the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of Deans and final recommendations will be submitted to the full Board by the end of March. Sponsors of successful projects should know by April that support for the following academic year or summer will be available. Three projects are funded each year.