Applicant(s): __________________________________________________________________________________________________

Applicant Department(s): ______________________________________________________________________________________

Project Title: __________________________________________________________________________________________________     

Have you received a previous Student/Faculty Collaboration Challenge Grant Award?

___  Yes  ____  No     If so, what year? _______

Proposal Action Deadlines (extended):

__________________________________                                            _____________________  Monday, Feb. 5, 2007
Applicant Signature                                                                                Date

__________________________________                                            _____________________
Applicant Signature                                                                                Date

__________________________________                                            _____________________
Applicant Signature                                                                                Date

Signature denotes approval.  Please attach a brief explanation if you DO NOT support this proposal.

__________________________________                                            _____________________  Monday, Feb. 12, 2007
Department Chair                                                                                   Date

__________________________________                                            _____________________  Monday, Feb. 19, 2007
Dean                                                                                                    Date

Dean routes application to the Provost's Office, 702 Culkin Hall, by Friday, Sept. 8, 2006

__________________________________                                            ______________________ 
SCAC Committee Chair representing review committee                                Date

__________________________________                                            ______________________   Provost                                                                                                 Date

Application

Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants – 2007-08

There is $7,500 available (one grant was awarded earlier this year per the original timeline) to provide up to three awards of $2,500 each for faculty collaborating with undergraduate students on professional scholarly or creative projects.  Funds may be used to purchase needed supplies and equipment, travel to conduct the project or disseminate results, or cover other expenses related to the project. 

The purpose of the Challenge Award program is to promote and support true student/faculty scholarly collaboration. It is not the goal of the program to fund research assistants, but rather to assist faculty in providing motivated students with graduate level scholarly and creative experiences.  Successful applicants will be engaged in an ongoing project with one or more undergraduates who participate in a direct and meaningful way in every stage of the project from initial conception to dissemination of results. As a condition of this award, results must be submitted to a national or regional conference and presented at QUEST.

Grants will be available immediately after approval by the Provost (mid to late September) with work expected to be completed by June 30, 2008.

Eligibility

All full-time permanent teaching faculty (including librarians), and full-time temporary faculty who have multi-year contracts and are not in their final year are eligible to participate in this program. Non-teaching professionals on term and continuing appointment in the Division of Academic Affairs are ineligible under this program but are encouraged to apply for funding under the Scholarly and Creative Activity grant (formerly Faculty Enhancement Grant) program.  Applicants may receive a maximum of one Challenge Award per year and may submit only one application.  No grants are awarded to individuals who will be on sabbatical at the time they would receive the grant.  To extend the benefits of this program to as many faculty and students as possible, faculty who have had grants approved and funded under the Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants (SFCCG) program during the last three academic years are not eligible for funding under that program.  Students receiving a Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarly and Creative Activity grant award during the 2006/2007 cycle are not eligible for a Challenge grant during that period.  Previous receipt of a SCAC student or faculty enhancement award does not affect eligibility for an SFCCG Award.  Faculty may not receive a SCAC grant and a Challenge Award concurrently, but may receive a Challenge Award and Course Innovation Grant during the same award cycle.

Funding Amounts

The total money available for any grant will be up to $2,500. There are no minimum or maximums for specific categories. Faculty/student research teams submitting a grant must indicate how the money will be spent on an itemized budget sheet. A strong

justification for each item must be included. The Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee reserves the right to reduce the amount of the award, as does the Provost.

Guidelines and Instructions

Proposals for SFCCG awards should be concise, between four (4) and six (6) pages (excluding resume and attachments).  Please submit the appropriate cover/routing and budget sheets.  Extraneous documentation is discouraged although critical research instruments (surveys, etc.) should be included as appendices.

1.  Description of your project (Required of all applicants)

This description must be complete and specific, with a limited text of six single-sided and double-spaced pages.  Write clearly and persuasively so that a literate but non-expert reviewer can understand and appreciate your project.  The description should address the following areas:

Nature of the faculty/student collaboration:  What are the roles and responsibilities of faculty and student collaborators?  How are the students being prepared to fulfill their roles and responsibilities within the project?  Will students be included as co-authors on manuscripts and conference presentations resulting from the work, and will they actually participate in the preparation of these documents?  Please include evidence of successful collaborative work between the faculty member and the student if such exists.  This can include papers, presentations, or grant writing.

Current status of project development: How far along is the project?  What has been the extent of the student’s contribution thus far?  Can you reasonably expect the work to reach the stage of dissemination by the end of the grant period? 

Goals:  What are you trying to accomplish during the period of the grant?  If these goals relate to a larger project or scholarly/creative program, explain.  Potential venues for dissemination of results should be included in this section.

Methods or Procedures for Meeting Your Goals:  What will you do during the grant period?  What methods or procedures do you propose to use in order to meet your goals?  What professional training and experience do you bring to bear on this project in order to meet your goals?  What steps have been taken to ensure that the student will be capable of executing the proposed method or procedures? 

Scholarly or Creative Context for your Project:  How does what you are doing fit into what has been done by others?  For a scholarly proposal, this section would probably be a review of the literature.  For creative work, develop an argument that gives context to the proposed project.  You may include a discussion of artistic or literary influences, the theoretical or cultural tradition in which you are working, as well as how the completed work might appear publicly, in terms of exhibitions, performances, or publication.

Note:  You may include statements referencing an appendix, but the project description should be clear to the reader without the appended material.

2.  Budget justification and explanation (Required)

The proposed budget should be specific about travel expenses, supplies, and other costs as specified on the Budget Page.  Budget submissions for all proposals should note previous or concurrent efforts at obtaining other potential funding, including funding by deans and departments, UUP, Auxiliary Services and other internal or external sources.  Clear evidence of support for students must be included in this section. 

3.  Resume  (Required) – Faculty collaborators must submit a two-page resume highlighting relevant research or creative activity.  Student collaborators should submit a brief resume¢ describing their qualifications for the project including relevant coursework and/or previous experience with independent study or internship experience in their area.

4.  Appendix (Not required) - If an appendix is included, it must be kept very brief and used only to support the description of your project. You may include correspondence that supports the plans you described above; research instruments to which you have referred; copies of contacts with travel agents that support your budget.  Do not include academic papers, etc., and do not assume that any single inclusion with more than one or two pages will be read.

5.  Previous Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Award report (Required if applicable) – If you have received funding under the Challenge Award program in the past, you must include the final report of the most recent project.

If you receive an award, four copies of the final report will be due in the Provost’s office by July 1, 2007.  This office will forward a copy of your report to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, your dean’s office, and your department chair.  Your report must document how you have/will disseminate your results. 

Note:  Your submission of a grant proposal implies your consent for inclusion of the proposal, if accepted, on the SCAC website (http://www.oswego.edu/scac) for benefit of faculty preparing future Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants.  This is a secure site with access limited to Oswego Rocky account holders.

Proposal Checklist

1.  Cover/Routing sheet

2.  Description of your project

• Nature of faculty/student collaboration
• Current status of project development
• Goals
• Methods and procedures
• Scholarly context

3.  Budget justification and explanation

4.  Budget sheet

5.      Faculty Resume  (a two-page resume highlighting relevant research)

6.      Student Resume  (highlighting relevant in and out-of classroom experiences)

7.  Appendix (Optional)

8.  Previous Collaborative Challenge Grant report (where applicable)