The Workshop Summer Grant Program awards $5,000 for five weeks of full time research or writing during the second summer of a Wabash Pre-Tenure Teaching Workshop.

The purpose of the Workshop Summer Grant Program is to support the development of your career as a teacher and scholar. If approved, the Grant awards $5,000 for a project which includes 5 weeks of full-time release during the second summer of your Wabash Center Pre-Tenure Teaching Workshop.

Grant projects are typically focused on an area of scholarly academic research and writing – NOT on a teaching and learning project.

The grant proposal must include an itemized budget of expenses with the workshop participant listed as the project director.

Workshop participants will learn more about the Workshop Summer Grants Program during the first summer of the workshop.

Applications are not due until March 1 of the second year of the workshop.

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An acceptable Summer Grant proposal will include the following items:
1. Application Cover Sheet ( pdf download)

2. Project description (approximately 250 words)
Briefly describe your topic and the specific goals that you hope to accomplish with this grant.

3. Rationale (approximately 500 words)
Explain how your summer work will advance your career as a scholar-teacher. Provide a description that:

• places your summer work in the context of your larger scholarly project, your overall career plans, and your specific plans to achieve tenure and/or promotion
• places your summer work in the context of your teaching. How will your research and writing connect with the teaching that is ahead of you? In what ways will teaching be in the background while you do your scholarship?

4. Timeline of project activities (1 page)
Provide a timeline of your proposed activities. Simply show the steps involved in your project, including the time, place, and persons involved. Be sure to clearly identify the 5 weeks of release time.

5. Full-time work statement (approximately 100 words)
Provide a statement that explains the arrangements you have made in order to be able to work on your project full-time during the release time.

6. Itemized budget of expenses with budget narrative (approximately 1 page or less)
Provide an itemized list of the anticipated costs for carrying out the project (travel, resources, fees for services, etc.). This should be followed by a budget narrative which provides brief explanations of how you arrived at the budget amount. Alignment is key here: there should not be costs listed that do not correspond to activities in the timeline, and there should not be activities in the timeline that do not help achieve one or more of the project goals articulated in the project description. It is permissible to list a stipend as one of the grant expenses, but the budget narrative must make the case for why this expense is necessary.

7. Statement of evaluation (approximately 500 words)
Describe how you will evaluate your summer work by articulating a plan for receiving constructive feedback on your work and the questions that you wish to be addressed in relation to your project. This evaluation plan needs to include: 1) ongoing, critical self-reflection and assessment of yourself as scholar-teacher; 2) a description of indicators that, if present, would tell you that a revision of your plan of study is necessary; and 3) a set of markers which will indicate that you accomplished what you set out to do. You might consider keeping a journal or working with a mentor or a colleague in order to begin this process of reflection about how you work as scholar-teacher.

8. Letter of support from your dean or rector or department chair. This letter should confirm:

• that you are free of institutional time commitments during the release time;
• that your project will contribute substantially toward institutional requirements for promotion and/or tenure;
• your current standing in your institution’s review process.

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Summer Grant Conditions

You are expected to work full time on the proposed project during the five weeks of summer release. The actual dates for the grant period may begin before your summer release time in order to use the funds for expenses related to the project that are incurred earlier (plane tickets, book purchases, etc.). All grants must be completed by the September 1 due date of the final report.

During the five weeks of release time, you may not accept teaching assignments or engage in other activities that divert you from the project. The grant is contingent upon your participation in the winter and second summer meetings of the Wabash Center Pre-Tenure Workshop.

Process
Show the final draft of your grant proposal and obtain signatures on the Application Cover Sheet of 1) the person responsible for receiving the check and providing financial reports of expenditures for the institution and 2) the person authorized to sign grant requests for the institution.

When your proposal is approved you will receive email notification from the Wabash Center. The Grant Agreement will be sent to the person authorized to sign grant contracts for your institution. The financial contact and the project director are required to sign the contract return page as well. Once this Agreement is signed and returned to the Wabash Center, a check for the amount of the grant will be sent to the person responsible for receiving the check and providing financial reports of expenditures.

Changes
Once your proposal has been approved, you may make minor changes in your proposed project without consulting the Wabash Center. However, any significant change must be approved in advance. Please send a letter or email that describes and justifies the changes so that we can determine whether the new plans fall within the intent of the grant. Budget line item changes of more than $500 must be approved by the Wabash Center. Forms are provided on the web and in the "Guidelines for Reporting" packet you will receive when the grant is approved. Please follow the formatting that is required for changes over $500 per line item.

Resignation or Termination
Your grant may be terminated at the discretion of the Wabash Center if, for any reason, you fail to observe the terms and conditions of the grant. If during the course of your grant you are unable to meet the terms of the grant, then you are obliged to inform the Wabash Center immediately so that appropriate action may be taken. Please refer to the Grant Agreement document for specific conditions that apply to the early termination of a grant.

Final Report
You must submit a brief final report on what you accomplished with your Wabash Center Grant: it is due September 1. The report should:

1) revisit the goals you identified in your proposal, explain how they worked or didn’t work and what adjustments and revisions you had to make during the summer. Refer to the evaluation plan you laid out in your proposal;
2) provide critical reflection on your experience of the project – what have you learned about yourself professionally through this project?
3) provide a financial report from your institution’s financial officer as required in the Grant Agreement;
4) provide a few pages of pertinent materials produced, e.g., table of contents, bibliography, book proposal or précis, conference schedule, short article, etc. (15 pages maximum).