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CHAS Faculty Grant for Promoting Student Achievement RFP

Faculty are invited to compete for funds that will allow them to undertake a project to promote high academic achievement among all students with a focus on promoting success and satisfaction among students of color.  Faculty members, teaching in all disciplines, may submit proposals that focus on pedagogy and enhancing the faculty’s role in promoting student success.  Both individuals and groups may submit.  Projects should be directed at how we teach, or how we engage our colleagues in thinking about how we teach, rather than what we teach.  They may involve pedagogical improvements to courses, creating workshops for faculty on mentoring, or other efforts to enhance the faculty’s role in promoting student success.  Up to five grants will be awarded.

The Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS) convened in 2001 to promote high achievement, leadership and personal satisfaction of students, particularly students of color, on member campuses. Consisting of 37 private, select liberal arts colleges and small universities, CHAS shares data and develops programs to support the whole student, academically, socially and culturally. 
 

EXAMPLES of past awards include:

• Best Practices for Advancing Diverse Students & Faculty
                    Seminar series for faculty focusing on teaching, advising, and mentoring
                    in the sciences.
• Eliminating Stereotype Threat Through Best Practices
                    Development of an online resource of research-based strategies to reduce
                    stereotype threat and boost student achievement
• The Personal Narratives of Minority Women in Higher Education
                    A study of the dynamic between student and professor, including
                    documentation of minority student experiences in the form of qualitative     
                    assessment and personal narrative
• A Program for Student Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Urban Affairs
                    Promoting high academic achievement in research projects among students of
                    color, increasing the number of students engaged in researching the fields of
                    race, ethnicity and urban affairs
• Critical Moments for Undergraduates in Pre-Medical Courses
                    Research on why students abandon pre-med preparation and what works
                    for them when they succeed
• Access to the Economics Major for Women and Students of Color
                   Identify through surveys factors which will make the major more accessible
                   to underrepresented students        

Eligibility: All faculty members at CHAS institutions are eligible.

Deadline: The proposal deadline is JUNE 6, 2008, and award recipients will be notified in mid June. 

Award: A maximum award of $6500 will be provided of which up to $3000 may be taken as stipends based on the budget submitted with the proposal. 

Instructions:  Each application, which should be no more than 2-3 pages, should include the following information:

1.  A brief description of your project and its potential to effect institutional change and to promote student success and satisfaction

2. A budget, budget justification, and timeline for completion of the project.

3. A brief summary of your background in promoting student success and satisfaction and how this project relates to other efforts to promote high achievement among all students on your campus with special emphasis on students of color. 

4.  Your commitment to share the project outcomes with the larger CHAS community including presentation at a meeting to be scheduled by CHAS.

5. An endorsement letter from the Chief Academic Officer.

6. All materials should be submitted by email to Patti Maisch patricia.maisch@trincoll.edu

 
This RFP has been prepared and will be reviewed by a CHAS committee consisting of:

Pamela Baker, PhD., Associate Dean of Faculty, Bates College
Elizabeth Boylan, PhD., Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Barnard College
Gretchel Hathaway Tyson, PhD., Director of Affirmative Action and Community Outreach, Union College
Adele J. Wolfson, PhD., Associate Dean of the College, Wellesley College