Request for Proposals: Faculty Mini-Grants for 2013
Seventeen mini-grants totaling $16,500 are available to faculty to encourage community engagement in the categories outlined below. Awards will be announced by December 17, 2012 for activity taking place in spring or fall 2013.
Call for Proposals
Application Form
Service-Learning Partnership (Project)
Faculty will strengthen a partnership between the campus and the community through a collaboratively-conceived, course-related service-learning project that targets an unmet community need. Must result in an implemented project within the one-year grant period.
each grant: $ 2,000 funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative through CSUF's Center for Internships & Community Engagement and the CSUF Gianneschi Center's Ballentine Endowment
Add Service-Learning to a Course
Faculty will modify the curriculum of an established course or create a new course to include a required service-learning component. Service-learning allows students an alternative mode for exploring the course topic by providing 20 to 40 hours of service that meets an identified community need, combined with reflective exercises to connect the service and need to the learning objectives for the course.
each grant: $1,000 funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative through the Center for Internships & Community Engagement
Nonprofit Management Training
A member of the permanent faculty will develop 1 or 2 new 3-hour sessions on a nonprofit management topic (or expand/develop new materials for a returning course) for the annual Gianneschi Summer School for Nonprofits. (For sample topics, see 2012 program). It is expected that recipients will be available (if asked) to teach the resulting session(s) at the 8th annual Summer School for Nonprofits in July 2013, or in some other format (such as a webinar) to be mutually determined with the Gianneschi Center and the Center for Internships & Community Engagement.
each grant: $500 funded through proceeds of the Gianneschi Summer School for Nonprofits
Conference Travel
A member of the permanent faculty will participate in a professional, academic, or service-learning conference to present a paper or attend a session(s) specifically about course-related service or service-learning partnerships. Evidence of attendance at service-related session(s) required for reimbursement.
Example: Continuums of Service Conference, April 24-26, 2013 in Portland, Oregon
each grant: $500 funded by funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative through CSUF's Center for Internships & Community Engagement
Community-Based Research
Faculty will work with the community to identify a research need and jointly develop a pilot study. Ideally, the method, design and data collection should lead to a proposal for external grant submission. Additionally, graduate and undergraduate students should be considered for participation as co-researchers in the project.
each grant: $1,250 funded by CSUF's Office of University Research, Initiatives and Partnerships
2013 Awardees
Community-Based Research
Dr. John Breskey, Health Science Department
Dr. Edythe Krampe, Sociology Department
Dr. Gail Love, Communications Department (Ballentine Endowment for Nonprofit-Campus Research Projects)
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Dr. Kiran George, Computer Engineering, partnering with local high schools
2012 Awardees
Community-Based Research
Dr. Jack Jinghui Liu, Modern Languages and Literatures Department
Dr. Chris Street, Secondary Education
Dr. Jindong Wu, Geography Department
Service-Learning Partnership (Project)
Dr. Erualdo Gonzalez , Chicano Studies, partnering with El Centro Cultural de Mexico
Dr. Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Asian American Studies Program, partnering with OCAPICA
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Dr. Saul Tobias, Liberal Studies Department
Dr. Ying-Chiao Tsao, Human Communication Studies Department
2011 Awardees
Community-Based Research
Dr. Ioakim Boutakidis, Child and Adolescent Studies
Dr. Jennifer Burnaford & Dr. Jayson Smith, Biological Science
Dr. Russell Espinoza, Psychology
Dr. Edythe Krampe, Sociology
Dr. Jindong Wu, Geography
Dr. Jennifer Yee, Asian-American Studies
Service-Learning Partnership (Project)
Ms. Breta Hedges, Marketing, whose partner, Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, received the 2011 Community Engagement Award for Stellar Student Support
Dr. Jennifer Ponder & Dr. Teresa Crawford, Elementary and Bilingual Education
Dr. Jennifer Yee, Asian-American Studies, recipient of the 2011 Community Engagement Award for Outstanding Service-Learning Instructor
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Dr. Christine Gardiner, Political Science
Dr. Arnold Holland, Art
Dr. Rebecca Otten & Dr. Mary Wickman, Nursing
