How to Apply
FACULTY FELLOWS-IN-SERVICE
CALL FOR PROPOSALS & FUNDING GUIDELINES
Funding for Faculty Interested in Advancing Academic Service Learning & Public
Scholarship
Proposals for Academic Year 2009-2010
Deadline: November 29, 2009
Guidelines to apply for funding are listed below, for additional information
please visit www.psc.cornell.edu. And don't forget to join us for the Faculty
Fellows in Service annual seminar series featuring leaders in the field.
“Service-Learning and Movement Building” featuring: Dr. Nadinne Cruz, 11/6/09;
Dr. Randy Stoecker, 2/12/10; and Dr. Kevin Mahoney, 3/26/10 contact ayk3@cornell.edu
for more info!
FACULTY FELLOWS-IN-SERVICE FUNDING GUIDELINES
Applicants can request funding of up to $2,000. Only applicants with faculty
status are eligible.
Project Goals:
FFIS is seeking proposals from Cornell faculty who are interested in advancing
academic service learning and public scholarship on campus. Funds can be used
for a variety of reasons including to support innovations in an existing service-learning
course; undertaking curriculum development or evaluation; undertaking a specific
service project, survey, or action research, as long as these are integral to
a course and involve students and community organizations. All proposals should
mutually advance the pedagogy and research of academic service learning at Cornell.
Since its inception, FFIS has been instrumental in launching academic service
learning at Cornell, which directly engages the relationship between active citizenship
and learning. With its focus on reflection and co-learning it directly links real
world issues and community experiences with a student's education. FFIS seeks
to build a larger constituency of Cornell faculty who understand and embrace academic
service learning and public scholarship while exploring its role in fostering
an engaged university. It seeks to disclose and debate the various resistances
and challenges facing faculty who engage in service learning while exploring the
various tools, resources and support mechanisms needed to foster it.
Proposal Review:
Proposals will be reviewed by FFIS governance committee, which is made up of
faculty members representing the undergraduate colleges of the university. It
is the FFIS committee's policy to encourage their colleagues to participate in
the program, and to assist them as much as possible in securing a grant. A proposal
will be evaluated on the basis of how well it adheres to the above stated goals
and guidelines.
Each proposal should be a maximum of 4 pages and include the following:
Project title page (1 page) Including: Your name, title and affiliation, Contact
addresses and numbers, Project Title and Brief Abstract.
Project description and/or methodology (not to exceed 2 pages):
Project Intent ie. What public need or concern does the project address? Who
and how many will be participating (faculty, students and community) and what
are their anticipated roles? What do you propose to do and what is the design
of the service-learning project or program?
Course or Educational Program Design: What is the expected educational value
of participation in this service learning project/program for the students? What
specific theories and practices will they engage? Will academic credit will be
awarded and how much? What specific service-learning reflection and evaluation
processes will be utilized?
Community and Project Outcomes: How are community partners actively engaged in
the project and what will be provided to them through the service? What are some
of the expected project outcomes and products?
Project Budget (1 page): How will you spend the money and what is the budget?
Please note in-kind and project expenses needed to complete the project. NOTES
on FUNDING:
Eligible expenses include all out-of-pocket expenses for carrying out the project
including supplies and consumable materials, travel, telephone, copying, photography,
etc. Grant requests may include full matching funds for Federal Work Study, but
students who do not qualify for work study funding are eligible to participate
as volunteers, or they may participate for academic credit. Specifically excluded
from funding are:
Personnel salaries, except for work study matching funds. Capital expenditures.
No university overhead expense is allowed. Academic credit for students participating
in service-learning experiences is encouraged.
FINAL REPORT and FFIS SYMPOSIUM:
A brief final report discussing successes and challenges of the project, as well
as the number of students involved and other demographic and qualitative information,
is required at the end of the grant period. In addition, participants are invited
to participate in the annual Faculty Symposium on Service-Learning. Participants
may also be asked to contribute to the FFIS Annual Symposium and or for the publication
of a forthcoming FFIS Working Paper Series on Service-Learning. The annual conference
and the publication of the papers presented there offer a forum for faculty to
teach others about the educational value of service-learning in higher educational
institutions such as Cornell University.
Applicants will be informed of grants by December 12, 2009. Applications should
be sent electronically to Leonardo Vargas-Mendez, ljv1@cornell.edu by November
29, 2009.
