Scholarly Incentive Award2017-18

Purpose: This competitive, merit-based award is designed to helpfull-time tenure track, tenured and three year QAR facultyadvance scholarly production in their home disciplines. Funding may be used to conduct research or creative projects valued by their home departments’ APT documents as fulfilling scholarship requirements for tenure and/or promotion.

Eligibility:

  • Full-time tenure track, tenured, and three year QAR faculty working at The College at Brockport at the time of application.
  • Faculty receiving an award in one application cycle must wait 12 months before applying for another Scholarly Incentive Award.
  • You may only apply for oneof the following Internal Grants during a given grant cycle: Pre-Tenure Grants Development Award, Provost's Post-Tenure Fellowship, or Scholarly Incentive Award.

Eligible Expenses:

  • Travel for research or creative performance
  • Research assistants must be currently enrolledBrockport students.
  • Stipends for research subjects(wages are subject to taxes and are paid in one lump sum).
  • Materials and supplies (not available from other campus sources)
  • Postage for mailing surveys
  • Specialproduction costs for non-commercial, academic peer-reviewed books or articles (e.g. creation of maps; rights to images; etc.).

Ineligible Expenses:

  • Stipends for faculty/staff
  • Conference fees and travel
  • Curriculum development
  • Technology and materials available from other campus sources
  • Professional membership expenses
  • Reimbursements for activity prior to current application cycle

Funding:

  • Up to $1,000 per project (the maximum award for proposals submitted by two or more faculty for a joint project is $1,000 total).
  • Funds are available for up to 12 months from the time of the award, at which point they expire.
  • A Post-Grant Summary must be submitted utilizing the link available on the Grants Development page as “Post-Grant Summary.” (This links you to a Qualtrics survey tool.) Please complete the summary prior to the expiration of the award.

Review Process: Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of faculty representatives from each of the Academic Schools, with staff support provided by the Grants Development Office.

Application Deadlines: (This is the last day applications will be accepted–early submission is encouraged.)

  • Proposals must be received by 5:00 pm on October 20, 2017 OR February 16, 2018.
  • Proposals should be e-mailed to Jules Oyer at

Scholarly Incentive Award Application Guidelines2017-18

All applications are submitted by e-mailing in one single document to Jules Oyer at

Cover Sheet(form attached)

Project Narrative to include: (up to 3 single-spaced pages)

  1. Problem Statement and Background
  • State the background and/or problem you are addressing.Relate the significance of the project to your discipline.
  • Explain how this project will enhance your knowledge in the field and scholarly productivity(literature review is not necessary).
  • Identify howa Scholarly Incentive Awardis vital to help you completethis project.
  • Are there other funding sources you have or could apply for?
  • If project will need IRB approval, please note.
  1. Goal(s), Objectives, Activities, Project Outcome
  • Describe your project goal(s)-what do you plan to accomplish with support of this grant?
  • Who will be involved in the project? If you will be traveling, please explain why that travel is essential to complete the project.

Timeline of project activities, including potential venues for publication and/or professional presentation.

Budget Form (form attached)

  • Specific details on how these funds will support your project. Requests for software should include a justification as to why it is needed for this project and that it is not already availableon campus. Research assistants must be currently enrolled Brockport students. The rates of pay are a minimum of $9.75/hour for undergraduate students and $11/hour for graduate students.If you are requesting funds for travel, include a justification as to why you must travel to accomplish your goal. Please use the federal per diem rates at:

Curriculum Vitae(maximum 3 pages)

Letter of Support from Department Chair or Dean

Appendix materials (no more than 10 pages)

  • Letters or e-mails of support from all critical project collaborators
  • Confirmation of book contract, art exhibition, scheduled performance, journal publication, conference presentation, etc.

Questions? Contact Jules Oyer at 395-2905 or

Scholarly Incentive Award Cover Sheet 2017-18

Name:

Department:

Phone (office):

Phone (other):

Affiliated as: Lecturer ___Asst. Professor ___ Visiting Asst. Professor ___

Assoc. Professor ___Professor ___Other (explain) ______

Project Title:

Project Start Date:

Project End Date:

Single Sentence Summary of Project:

Have you ever received support for the proposed activity: YesNo

If yes, please specify:

Project Title:

Sponsor(s):

Amount of support received: $

Please explain how the Scholarly Incentive Award will be used differently than previously received support :

Scholarly Incentive AwardBudget Form 2017-18

Category
(research travel, materials, research assistant, etc.) / Expenses / Details/Explanation
Total Expenses

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