How
do I apply for a Faculty Seminar?
In the Fall Semester, faculty who are on tenure track or on a continuing appointment
faculty are invited to apply for the following full academic year’s
Seminar. Faculty receive one course release for their participation and a
$400 book allowance. This is the only Humanities Center initiative for which
faculty status matters and that is because of the course releases.
To apply, describe your interest in the seminar in a substantial paragraph
and indicate specific ways in which your teaching and scholarly interests
might contribute to and/or benefit from the seminar.
How do I apply to lead or co-lead a Faculty
Seminar?
The leaders and schedule of upcoming seminars is set through the 2009-2010
academic. The Center will solicit seminar proposals for its next cycle of
seminars in the spring of 2009. Seminar leaders receive a $2,000 honorarium,
a course release, a generous symposium budget, and a $400 book allowance once
all the seminar reports are received.
How
do I apply for an Access/Enrichment Grant?
Access/Enrichment Grants of up to $600 are made
on a rolling basis up to the capacity of the Center’s funding line for
this program. Limit one grant per faculty per semester. Funds may be used
for travel expenses, admission or registration, and hotel/meal costs. Applications
should cover information about the event (name, date, and location of program
of event), a detailed budget, what the faculty member anticipates getting
from the experience, and an explanation of why the program is not eligible
for other college funding. Grants will be paid as a reimbursement to faculty
once the receipts and a brief narrative about the experience are turned in.
Access/Enrichment Grant Application
Note: This Center initiative does not cover
books or other materials.
Application deadline:
rolling
Please address inquiries and proposals to the Associate Director, Emily Cronin
(ecronin@haverford.edu).
How
do I apply for Course Renovation/Innovation Grant?
Up to $2,000 to help fashion a new course or renovate
an existing course in ways that augment its intellectual scope and appeal
to students broadly interested in humanistic inquiry. Proposals should provide
(a) a course description that, in the case of a renovated course, explains
its enhancements and revisions, or, in the case of a new course, explains
its new place in the applicant’s teaching portfolio; and (b) an annotated
budget, describing the relation between expenditures and the course’s
design and development. Currently proposals are considered on a rolling basis
up to the capacity of the Center’s funding line for this program. In
the future, as faculty interest in these grants grows, the Center may need
to set application deadlines for both Fall and Spring projects.
Course Innovation Application
Application deadline:
April 4, 2008
Please address inquiries and proposals to the Associate Director, Emily Cronin
(ecronin@haverford.edu).
How
do I propose a sponsored group?
Proposals may be submitted at any time and are
reviewed on a rolling basis. Funding guideline: Faculty Reading Groups up
to $500; Working Groups up to $3,500 per year.
Proposal should include both a description that includes format, possible
participants, timing, and schedule, and projected budget and an explanation
of the intellectual scope of the project and its relationship to Haverford’s
academic program.
Application deadlines: rolling for Faculty Reading
Group; for Faculty Working Group - April 4, 2008
How
do I sponsor a symposium, speaker series, arts exhibit, or film series?
Up to $12,000 will be awarded to stage a symposium,
conference, or other public event. Proposals should provide:
• a description that includes format, possible participants, timing,
schedule, and projected budget;
• an explanation of the intellectual scope of the project and its relationship
to Haverford’s academic program.
Sample Budget for a Symposium
Application Deadline:
April 4, 2008
Please address inquiries and proposals to the Associate Director, Emily Cronin
(ecronin@haverford.edu).
How
do I get funding for a Student Research Assistant?
Humanities Faculty and/or Departments may apply
for funding of up to $4,000 to cover student wages and materials for up to
10 weeks of summer work. Proposals for shorter projects and those taking place
during part of or all of the academic year are also welcome. Proposals should
include a project description; an estimate of the number of hours of work
needed and when; any special skills required (languages, editorial experience,
computer or web skills, etc.); how the project relates to current or past
initiatives of the Hurford Humanities Center (Faculty Seminar, Curriculum
Development Project, Working Group, or other project); what you would hope
to achieve if funded; what might the student learn from this collaboration.
Application Deadline:
January 11, 2008.
Please address inquiries and proposals to the Associate Director, Emily Cronin
(ecronin@haverford.edu).
How
do I propose a Summer Curricular Institute?
Proposals should outline a preliminary course design,
describing the course’s place within the curricular contexts of relevant
departments and the College curriculum at large, as well as a plan for development
during at least one month of the summer. Institute members, working on individual
or group projects, will receive a $2,000 stipend for their participation.
Application deadline:
April 4, 2008
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How do I organize or participate in a “Dialogues
on Art” outing?
James Weissinger is the “Dialogues on Arts”
Coordinator for 2007-08. Contact him with your ideas for an outing or if you
wish to participate in one (jweissin@haverford.edu).
How
do I get funding for an arts event?
Resources are available for significant projects
that either connect to the curriculum of several courses, disciplines, or
departments, or that encourage greater understanding of the role of the arts
in liberal arts education at Haverford. The faculty sponsor of an arts event
who takes a leadership role in the project receives a $2,000 stipend and works
in partnership with the Center.
Proposals should include the following details:
• Host
• Proposed Visitor with title, affiliation, & evidence of distinction
• Proposed date(s) of visit & possible alternate date(s)
• Have you searched College’s Listing of Events for possible conflicts?
• Proposed activities during visit, i.e. concert, performance, exhibit,
lecture demonstration, classroom visit, public talk
• Opportunities for co-sponsorship with other funding sources
• Has the visitor previously been to Haverford? If so, when?
• Requested budget, including artist’s fee, travel, technical
support (sound,
lights, materials)
• Does the artist have press or other materials suitable for publicity?
• Technical/exhibition requirements? (Preferred location; Capacity;
A/V
needs? Lighting? Stage set-up? Piano? Music Stands? Green Room facilities?)
Questions to consider in your proposal:
• How does your proposal relate to current or past initiatives of the
HHC? Does it, for instance, build upon themes raised in a Faculty Seminar,
Curriculum Development Project, Working Group, or other initiative?
• How would this event serve as a point of inquiry for a concurrent
course or research project in the Humanities? With what cultural contexts,
texts, or interpretive modes does it grapple?
• What specific connections do you envisage among different departments
or disciplines as a result of this visit? Have you approached colleagues about
ways to collaborate around this event?
• Will the artists be available for pre-program lectures, lecture-demonstrations,
classroom visits, or other events outside the theater, concert hall, gallery,
or other presentation space?
• Have you contacted colleagues in Fine Arts, Music, or an appropriate
field of Language, Literature or Social Science about how the event might
relate to curriculum and programming they are considering?
• Have you checked with Nancy Merriam (in the case of performing arts
events), Matthew Callinan (in the case of fine arts exhibitions at the Cantor
Fitzgerald Gallery), or Emily Cronin (for an exhibit in Stokes 102) for advice
about your project and possible schedule?
• Will the event have an audience beyond the Haverford College community?
• Can you think of local scholars, institutions, or cultural organizations
with an interest in this event? How might we contact them?
• Do the Haverford College libraries own materials that might relate
to this project?
Application Deadline:
April 4, 2008
Please direct all inquiries and proposals to the Humanities Center to the
Associate Director, Emily Cronin (ecronin@haverford.edu).
Other Faculty FAQ’s
For which Humanities Center initiatives does
Faculty receive a stipend or honorarium?
Faculty members receive stipends for leadership
roles with several initiatives.
How does Humanities Center funding differ from
Haverford’s Distinguished Visitors program and other events funding?
How does Humanities Center funding differ from Haverford’s Distinguished
Visitors program and other events funding?
The Humanities Center uses the following criteria when considering proposals:
Does the proposal build upon a previous project or initiative (for instance,
curricular proposal that draws on experience from a faculty seminar)?
Does the proposal contribute to dialogue or thought not possible within a
departmental context (for instance, involving more than one faculty member,
and from different departments or sub-disciplines)?
Does the proposal contribute to the growth of the Center (making possible
some future plan otherwise not directly achievable)?
Does it make effective and creative of our resources?
For arts events, does the proposal have a clear constituency in the curriculum
or in the research interests of faculty? How will it serve as a point
of inquiry?
If the answer to these is unclear or no, then the proposal may well be better
funded by DVO or some other source.
