UCCSC COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND TEACHING GRANTS 2010-11

Extended Deadline: February 15, 2010                 Grantees of the program for 2009-10

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The UC California Studies Consortium will support faculty research and creative work that involves community organizations in California and contributes to a broader goal of building ties between UC campuses and off-campus communities. These competitive grants will support faculty projects that focus mainly on questions relevant to California and its rapidly changing social and cultural demography. A deliverable for all projects will be website curriculum content focused on teaching critical California studies. We define curriculum broadly to include course materials as well as skill building exercises. This site would include an archive of course syllabi, as well as innovative pedagogical materials such as team-teaching designs and service learning models.

These grants aim at pulling together community-based leaders, educators and scholars who are forming networks and linkages between the university and its off-campus communities and demographics, such as the building of language centers and cultural centers and not-for-profit organizations. We also encourage faculty who are building strong ties and new connections to K-12 educational institutions, in order to improve articulation across primary, secondary and higher education within the state of California. We define outreach broadly to include exploratory activities with creative media and novel methods in data collection and distribution.

These grants may support the initiation of new projects or advance the work (or completion) of projects and efforts already in progress. Preferred proposals might show some level of engagement—whether in alignment, tension or contestation—with the growing field of California Studies, itself.

UCCSC will award grants up to $7,500 during the
2010-11 academic year (July 1 to June 30).
Awards are contingent upon available funding. UCHRI funds must be spent in accordance with all applicable UC rules and regulations. Please contact the Office of Research at your campus with any questions you may have.

Eligibility:
Applicants must be UC faculty members who are eligible to be Principal Investigators on their campuses. A graduate student may participate, but must obtain sponsorship from a faculty member who will have budgetary and project oversight responsibilities. All successful applicants must maintain eligibility during the life of the grant. Grants are not transferable to non-UC institutions. Each applicant may submit no more than one proposal per annual competition cycle.

Note:
1:2 Cost-sharing requirement: Funding is contingent on your securing matching monies from outside granting agencies and/or your home campus. At least one dollar of cost-sharing must be documented for every two dollars of UCHRI funds spent (for example, for a UCCSC/UCHRI grant of $5,000, award recipients must obtain a minimum of an additional $2,500).

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To Apply
Applications must be submitted through the online FASTAPPS system (e-mailed, mailed, or faxed applications will not be accepted). Applicants must be registered with the online application system. Basic information as well as uploaded documents such as a project proposal, project bibliography, cv, and itemized budget are required. Graduate Student Applicants must also provide the name of their advisor, who will then be asked by the UCCSC committee to provide a letter of endorsement on the applicant's behalf.

The highlighted tab at the top of each form indicates the current section of the online application. Once you click the "Submit" button at the bottom of a form, the FASTAPPS system automatically advances to the next section and the corresponding tab at the top of the new form becomes highlighted. To move from field to field, use only the Tab key (not the Enter/Return key, which has the same function as the "Submit" button) or click on the field with your mouse.

You may return to your application and make changes at any time prior to the application deadline.

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For programmatic questions, contact dnoto@hri.uci.edu.