Grants and Awards

Harper CollegeThe following grants and awards are available to help you bring your innovative teaching and learning ideas to life! Read about the different grants available, their criteria, and how to apply for:

 

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TEACHING AND LEARNING INNOVATION GRANT

Applications must be for projects that stimulate innovative approaches to teaching and learning which can be used across the curriculum or within your department and shared with colleagues. Funding is available to pay for activities that support innovative curriculum development. Emphasis is on sharing information with colleagues. Funding is not provided for course development. Full funding may not be available for all proposals. If that is the case, partial funding may be awarded.

Contact, Deadline, and Application Information

Contact: Teaching and Learning Co-Chair, Kimberly Fournier and Robin James, extension 6882.

Deadlines: You may submit grant proposals on an ongoing basis. Proposals are reviewed on the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month through May 18, 2013.

Applications:

Grant Proposal(Microsoft Word Format)

Grant Final Report (Microsoft Word format)

 

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TECHNOLOGY GRANT

Applications must be for discipline-specific, technology-related professional development projects. Funding may be available for projects that utilize technology as a tool in the teaching and learning process, including the development of material that may be available via the Internet or by other means. Funding may also be available for information gathering as to how to utilize technology as a tool in the teaching and learning process, such as attending related conferences or taking related courses.

Special consideration will be given to first time applicants and successful, continuing projects.

No capital equipment and no maintenance of Internet sites will be funded through these grants. For information regarding reassigned time related to developing and teaching distance learning courses, please review your contract.

Full funding may not be available for all proposals. If that is the case, partial funding may be awarded.

Contact, Deadline, and Application Information

Contact: ITC chair, Kimberley Polly MS, extension 6696

Deadlines: You may submit grant proposals on an ongoing basis. Proposals are reviewed each month through May 1, 2013.

Applications:

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Technology Grant Final Report (Microsoft Word format)

 

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CII FACULTY FELLOWSHIP

Fellowships are intended for the development of an instructional technology project over the course of a single semester. This project should enhance the use of instructional technology and can be discipline-based or more generally broad based.

Up to three fellowships may be offered per semester with each carrying three hours of release time or a $3,000 stipend.

Contact, Deadline, and Application Information

Contact: Matthew Ensenberger, CII, extension 6933

Deadlines: October (for Spring Fellowships); March(for Fall Fellowships).

Applications:

CII Fellowship Application (Microsoft Word format)

 

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MULTICULTURAL FACULTY FELLOWSHIP

Fellowships are intended for the development of integration of multicultural learning into course syllabi or the development of new courses with mainly diverse content.

Contact, Deadline, and Application Information

Contact: Laura Labauve, Associate Dean for Multicultural Learning, extension 6522

Deadlines: If you have general questions, please contact Laura by telephone. If you have specific questions regarding a project idea, please set up an appointment.

Applications:

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GLENN A. REICH
MEMORIAL AWARD FOR INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Glenn Reich believed in a humanistic, collaborative approach to instructional technology. He believed that "technology could enrich the teaching and learning process; it could open the doors for new opportunities and new ideas."

This award was established in 1999 by Lori Reich in memory of her late husband, Glenn Reich, former Director of User Services at Harper College. Glenn wanted to share his love of computers with students and faculty members. He encouraged faculty and staff to invest their energy in the technology that he knew would dramatically affect our world. Glenn believed every academic discipline should expose students to technology and assist them to become more comfortable with it. This award is devoted to realizing and carrying forward that vision.
To be considered for the $1,000 award, applicants must submit:

  • a description of the instructional technology or technologies they have used or are using
  • explain how it has enhanced the teaching and learning process
  • describe how they envision its future use.

Applications will be evaluated based upon innovation, creativity, teaching/learning evolution, shared knowledge and future teaching/learning application.

Contact, Deadline, and Application Information

Contact: ITC co-chair, Kimberley Polly, MS, x 6696

Deadlines: Nominations may be made by any member of the Harper Community. The nomination deadline is Tuesday, November 1, 2012. The award recipient is announced each December.

Applications:

Glenn A. Reich Memorial Award Application (Microsoft Word format)

 

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SUSTAINABILITY FACULTY FELLOWS PROGRAM

The Sustainability Faculty Fellowship was designed to create and support a team of faculty with a commitment to continuous improvement of student, staff and faculty learning around issues of sustainability. This fellowship is an opportunity for full-time faculty members to partner with the Sustainability Teaching and Learning Coordinator and Harper’s Green Committee to create a teaching and learning project that will integrate sustainability issues into classroom curriculum and/or initiate campus-wide projects.

Options for projects may include:  (1)  Infuse Sustainability into your current curriculum (more than one course); (2)  Work with faculty in your department to infuse sustainability into their curricula; (3) Develop curricula which will integrate a campus-wide project (class takes on a campus sustainability project/initiative); or (4) Work with a student club on a campus-wide initiative. The idea is to identify a project that reaches out to the greater Harper community.

  • The Sustainability Faculty Fellowship is a two semester commitment (consecutive) and is non-renewable. The Fellow will receive a $3000 stipend and professional development support up to $1500.00 to attend a regional sustainability conference or discipline specific conference with sustainable components.  It is preferred that conference attendance be completed prior to February 1, 2013.

Responsibilities

The Sustainability Fellow will:

  • Create a sustainability project that explores new and creative ways to infuse sustainability into student learning in his/her program, department or campus-wide project.
  • Work on this sustainability project for two consecutive semesters.
  • Attend meetings with the Sustainability Teaching and Learning Coordinator.
  • Participate in workshops/trainings designed for Fellows.
  • Attend a regional sustainability conference or discipline specific conference with a sustainable component with financial support from the Provost’s Office.
  • Submit a status report each semester to the Sustainability Teaching and Learning Coordinator to be shared with the Green Committee.
    • Report 1 – Project plan: An expansion on the application of the sustainability project and its relevance to advancing sustainability at Harper.  Report will include a summary of your attendance at a sustainability conference and how you plan to implement ideas from the conference into your project as well as resources needed to complete this project. This report is due at the end of semester one.
    • Report 2 – Implementation and analysis: Description of implementation and critical analysis of success of the project.  Detail the specific impact within the Harper community and how you assessed this.  Address the overall success or challenges of the project.  Generate a plan for future proposed projects or initiatives to support sustainability teaching and learning.

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  • A fellow must make a presentation showcasing project accomplishments at the during the orientation week following the Fellow’s year of work.  Fellows are encouraged to invite to this presentation the Provost, the Division Dean, the Dean of Resources for Learning, the department chair, faculty members from the department, members of the Green Committee, and any others as deemed appropriate.

General Information:

  • There may be up to three fellowships offered per year.
  • The fellowships are non-renewable in order to give more faculty members the opportunity to participate; however, this may be changed by the application committee in special circumstances.
  • The fellowships are not limited to full-time faculty, but priority will be given to applications that are largest in scope and overall strength of the application.
  • A working library is available on-line and on reserve in the Harper Resource Center (“Green Living”) available to Fellows.
  • The hours worked will be based on the project needs and will be established by the Fellow and the Sustainability Teaching and Learning Coordinator.
  • The fellow should consult with his/her department chair or program coordinator prior to applying for the fellowship.
  • If you should have any questions, please contact Jacque Mott at jmott@harpercollege.edu or extension 6894.

Contact, Deadline, and Application Information

Contact: Applications will be submitted to a Sustainability Review Committee in electronic format to jmott@harpercollege.edu. The Sustainability Review Committee shall consist of the Sustainability Teaching and Learning Coordinator, three faculty from the Green Committee and Provost or designate

Deadlines: June 1, 2012

Applications:

Sustainability Faculty Fellows Application 2012

 

 

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