The Associated Colleges of the Midwest seeks pre-proposals to the Faculty Career Enhancement Program (FaCE) for joint research projects, teaching and learning collaborations, collaboratively organized events, reading groups, and other cooperative initiatives that:
- Engage faculty either from multiple institutions or from different departments within a single institution;
- Identify and test new approaches that have the potential to address current challenges or opportunities faced by liberal arts colleges and their faculty; and
- Show plans to become sustainable on the campuses involved and demonstrate the potential to be replicable on other campuses through effective dissemination strategies.
The FaCE Steering Committee hopes that projects proposed each round will include a mix of proposals related and unrelated to the thematic emphasis of the current year. What challenge or opportunity faced by liberal arts colleges affects your work as a faculty member? What collaborative innovation might you propose as a way of addressing that challenge or leveraging the opportunity? What would be new, and how could this change be sustained?
Typical grant awards will range from $5,000 to $30,000. Projects that involve several collaborators from multiple campuses, demonstrate significant complexity in other aspects of the plan, or justify a higher grant award in other ways may be funded up to a maximum of $50,000.
Pre-proposals must be submitted by Friday, October 13, 2017. Questions and ideas can be directed to Christopher Tassava in Corporate & Foundation Relations (507-222-5833 or ctassava@carleton.edu). Christopher and CFR staff can assist with all aspects of the development of pre-proposals.