Services and Programs Coordinated Through the Grants Development Office

6th Floor Allen Administration Building
2011-2012

August 2011

Dear Colleagues:

As you make plans for the academic year please remember that the Grants Development Office is here to assist you. Following is a list of services and internal grant programs that we administer to enable you and your students to accomplish your goals. The left hand side of this web page contains links to internal grant guidelines and forms.

We look forward to working with you! Please send an email to Colleen Donaldson, Grants Development Director at cdonalds@brockport.edu or call me at 585-395-5118.

Ways in which we can help you:

The Grants Development Office provides a wide range of services to assist you in achieving your scholarship/research goals including:

Identifying potential external and internal funding sources to support your research
Obtaining specific proposal guidelines
Budget preparation and obtaining institutional approvals
Writing or editing sections of proposals or entire grant proposals
Electronic submission or hard copy mailings of proposals to meet deadlines.

Services For Faculty and Staff

1. Assistance is provided in identifying grant funding sources, obtaining and completing grant applications both internally and externally for your scholarship, travel, program development, etc. This also includes:

Opportunity to get daily updates on potential grant opportunities targeted to your specific interests by registering in the COS database that we subscribe to. To register and for more information go to http://www.cos.com

Questions – contact Colleen.

The College is a member of the national Grants Resource Center. They will provide a variety of services including previously funded grant proposals for specific grant opportunities, contacts with program officers, etc.

2. The annual one-day, faculty/staff grants writing workshop will be offered on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 on campus. This is a practical guide to seeking external funding for your scholarship. It is offered on campus and features presentations by your colleagues who have been successful grant seekers. Please register by December 1, 2011 by sending an email to Colleen Donaldson at cdonalds@brockport.edu.

3. Grants writing presentations for your classes. These can be developed to take from 1.5 – 3 hours and will focus on how to successfully seek external grants in any discipline. Please contact Colleen at cdonalds@brockport.edu. During 2010-11, eleven in-class presentations on grants seeking across disciplines were presented reaching over 200 students.

4. Conducting research involving human subjects?
Our office coordinates the approval process for human subjects review for faculty, staff, and/or student research.

Contact Kristin Dauenhauer at kdauenha@brockport.edu for guidelines on how to seek human subject approval, or visit the IRB web page at http://www.brockport.edu/irb/.

If you would like to schedule an in-class presentation on the ethics of involving human subjects in research please contact Kristin.

5. Scholars Day – our annual celebration of faculty/staff/student research is coordinated by our office. The online call for participation will be available after November 1, 2011 and will be due in early February 2012. The forms can be found at http://www.brockport.edu/scholarsday/ More information will be forthcoming.

Campus-Based, Internal Grants for Faculty and Staff

6. UUP Individual Development Grants – open to all faculty and professional staff (full and part-time). Funds can be requested for research, travel to present or attend conferences/workshops, research supplies, etc. You can apply for reimbursement for development activities and events that will occur from July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012.
We are waiting to hear about our allocation or 2011-12. More information forthcoming.

7. Faculty Scholarship Account - This account replaces the $500/$600 previously available each year for Travel to Present at Conferences. Each full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty member’s account receives $750 annually. Managed by the Deans Offices, it is an equitable and predictable source of funding for a wide range of scholarly and creative activities. The Faculty Scholarship Account is:

Bankable – each $750 annual deposit expires after 2 years (subsequent annual deposits build up accounts whose funds have not been withdrawn or expired).
Flexible – accounts reimburse expenses associated with a wide range of defined scholarly/creative activities – registration and travel to academic conferences (not restricted to presenters); research (travel; student assistants; essential software, documents/data, lab or studio supplies); publication; artistic performance and display.

Approval forms can be obtained from departmental or dean secretaries. For more information click on the file on the left hand column of the page.

8. Scholarly Incentive Award - this competitive, merit-based program enables full time faculty (QAR faculty with at least a 2 year appointment are also eligible) to cover defined expenses associated with a wide range of scholarly and creative activities. Awards up to $1,000 are administered by the Grants Development Office, and expire if unused one year after award notification. Recipients must:

describe their scholarly project
identify how this award facilitates that project
provide a list of eligible expenses associated with the project.

Application deadlines: November 1, 2011 and March 1, 2012.
For more information click on the file in the left hand column of the page.

9. Pre-Tenure Grants Development Award - this competitive, merit-based program is open to all full-time, tenure-track assistant professors during their first five years of service at Brockport to support scholarly activity AND submission of external grant applications. Preference given to projects entailing first-time submission of external grant proposals, but applications for resubmission of external grant proposals are also encouraged. Each grantee receives an award of $2,000 – ½ of award up front and the other ½ of the award after submission of external grant application(s). Awards provide reimbursement for eligible expenses (same range of expenses eligible under Faculty Scholarship Account). They are administered by the Grants Development Office and expire if unused two years after award notification. Applicants need to describe:

a program of scholarly activity
a grant writing plan that may include:

meeting with Brockport’s Grants Development Director (Colleen Donaldson)
identifying relevant public and/or private grants(s)
speaking with Program Officers of targeted public and private funding agencies
reviewing winning proposals for targeted grants(s) (if available from Grants Resource Center)
participating in an on-campus grant writing workshop
submitting application for targeted external grant(s).

Application Deadlines: November 1, 2011 and March 1, 2012.
For more information click on the file in the left hand column of the page.

10. Provost’s Post-Tenure Fellowship - this competitive, merit-based award of up to $4,000 enables tenured faculty to cover expenses associated with a substantial scholarly endeavor. Awards provide reimbursement for eligible expenses (same range of expenses eligible under Faculty Scholarship Account). They are administered by the Grants Development Office and expire if unused two years after award notification. Applicants must:

identify a rigorous scholarly project, potential external grants (if applicable), and timeline for publication/presentation
identify how the fellowship would enable them to finish a current, major scholarly project or begin a new and substantial one.

Ineligible faculty include: 1) those who completed or will have a sabbatical within a year of the Fellowship application deadline; 2) those whose scholarly project is already funded by external grants; or 3) those who received this award within the previous five years.

Application Deadlines: November 1, 2011 and March 1, 2012.
For more information click on the file in the left hand column of the page.

11. Promoting Excellence in Diversity Grants – this program supports scholarly and artistic events that engage the College community in dialogue regarding issues of diversity. Deadlines are September 28, 2011; October 26, 2011; February 22, 2012; April 4, 2012. Faculty, staff, students are all eligible to apply (but it will not support individual’s projects). For more information click on the heading in the left hand column.

For Students

1. Grants Writing Course – offered annually PRO 410/510 is a one-credit, pass/fail, grants writing course that will be offered the first two Saturdays in 2012. The course is open to students from all disciplines. It has been taught since 1993 by the Grants Development Director.

2. Student Travel Grants to Present at Conferences – this is a competitive program with funding from BSG and Academic Affairs, administered by the Grants Development Office. Undergraduate and graduate students who are presenting at a conference/workshop are eligible to apply. Each student can receive up to $300 once an academic year. Presentations must be made between the dates August 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012. Applications should be submitted prior to travel.
For more information click on the file in the left hand column of the page.

3. Scholars Day Presentation - our annual celebration of faculty/staff/student research is coordinated by our office. The online call for participation forms will be available after November 1, 2011 and will be due early February 2012.. The forms will be accessible from the Scholars Day website at http://www.brockport.edu/scholarsday/. Students must have a faculty or staff member’s approval to submit an application to present.

4. Promoting Excellence in Diversity Grants – this program supports scholarly and artistic events that engage the College community in dialogue regarding issues of diversity. Deadlines are September 28, 2011; October 26, 2011; February 22, 2012; April 4, 2012. Faculty, staff, students are all eligible to apply (but it will not support individual’s projects). For more information click on the heading in the left hand column.

5. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. NCUR will be held at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah March 29-31, 2012. The College at Brockport will again be supporting students who have papers accepted for presentation. Please click the title National UndergraduateResearch Conference ‘12under FORMS & GUIDELINES on the left.

6. Distinguished Professors Award for Graduate Student Research - this competitive, merit-based award is for matriculated graduate students in a Master's program at The College at Brockport who are undertaking a substantial and original scholarly project—research and/or creative endeavor— associated with their program of study. Preference is given to students working on their Master's theses or capstone research or creative projects. The next deadline for electronic submission of applications is Friday March 9, 2012. For more information, click on this award title in the left column.

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