QEP Curriculum Development Mini-Grants CFP

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Call for Proposals:  Vocation: Discovering One’s Purpose in a Changing World, QEP Curriculum Development Mini-Grants

I. Eligibility

All full-time faculty.  Full-time staff who work directly with students.  All applicants must attend Helping Students Find Their Purpose: A QEP Workshop for Faculty & Staff  (workshop dates are Friday, September 16 or Saturday, September 17).

II.  Program Description

Competitive mini-grants will be awarded for curriculum development that incorporates vocational discovery into: (a) an existing course, (b) a new course, (c)  a co-curricular activity, in order to advance the new QEP.

III. Funding

Curriculum Development Grant up to $1,000

 IV. Format for Grant Applications

Grant applications should be no more than three pages in length double spaced, excluding the cover sheet and bibliography (if applicable), and will be evaluated based on the criteria listed below by members of the QEP Development Team and NetVUE Vocation Renewal Grant Team. The cover sheet should list the name of the faculty and/or staff member(s) submitting the application and a very brief abstract/summary of the proposed assignment(s), course, and/or activity.  The proposal itself should include the following:

  1. a clear description of the assignment, course, and/or activity to be undertaken
  2. a description of student learning outcomes as they relate to the QEP (i.e., must coincide with one or more QEP student learning outcomes). You can find the (summer 2016) QEP SLOs at https://sites.stedwards.edu/qep/student-learning-outcomes/
  3. a description of project scope  and timeline (e.g., if an assignment in a class – how often will you teach this class, when will you teach the class next; if a new course entirely, when will you present the course for consideration to department chair, curriculum committee (if relevant), when will it first be taught, and how frequently.).
  4. please request either a $500 or $1,000 grant based on project scope.

 V. Criteria for Evaluation of QEP Mini-Grants

(0 = completely missing; 1 = almost absent; 2= somewhat present; 3=adequate; 4= mostly present; 5=perfect)

  • Assignment, activity, and/or course description clear — 5  pts
  • Assignment, activity, and/or course has potential for permanence  (i.e., not just a one-off) — 5 pts
  • SLO(s) are appropriate and correspond to QEP SLOs — 5  pts
  • Potential contribution to QEP — 5  pts
  • Total Points Possible:  20 pts

 VI. Proposal Due Date

Please email grant proposals to the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs (lorip@stedwards.edu) no later than October 14, 2016 at 5 pm Central time.   Award notifications will be announced in November.  Late proposals will not be accepted.

 VII. Further Information

Inquiries concerning the particular aspects of grant proposals should be addressed to Dr. Lori Peterson, AVP for Faculty Development and Academic Programs and/or Fr. Louis Brusatti, Director the Center for Religion and Culture.

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About Rebecca Davis

Rebecca Frost Davis Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology Rebecca Frost Davis joined St. Edward’s in July 2013 as Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology, where she provides leadership in the development of institutional vision with respect to the use of technology in pursuit of the university’s educational mission and collaborates with offices across campus to create and execute strategies to realize that vision. Instructional Technology helps faculty transform and adapt new digital methods in teaching and research to advance the essential learning outcomes of liberal education. Previously, Dr. Davis served as program officer for the humanities at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), where she also served as associate director of programs. Prior to her tenure at NITLE, she was the assistant director for instructional technology at the Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center and an assistant professor of classical studies at Rhodes College, Denison University, and Sewanee: The University of the South. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in classical studies and Russian from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Davis is also a fellow with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). As a NITLE Fellow, Dr. Davis will develop a literature review relevant to intercampus teaching, which will cover contextual issues such as team-teaching, teaching through videoconferencing, and collaboration; a survey of intercampus teaching at NITLE member institutions; and several case studies of intercampus teaching at liberal arts colleges, including interviews with faculty, students, support staff, and administrators. This work will be summarized in a final report or white paper to be published by NITLE. At Rebecca Frost Davis: Liberal Education in a Networked World, (http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/) Dr. Davis blogs about the changes wrought by new digital methods on scholarship, networking, and communication and how they are impacting the classroom. In her research, she explores the motivations and mechanisms for creating, integrating, and sustaining digital humanities within and across the undergraduate curriculum.

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