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Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowships for Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers- Applications Due January 6, 2023

On November 1, 2022

In External Funding Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunities, Professional Development

The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation recently issued its 2023 call for applications for Fellowships of Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers.

The primary purpose of the fellowship is to enable teachers (with an emphasis on present teachers at the college or university level) to study abroad or at some location other than that with which they are most closely associated. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses (salary, scholarships, and equipment are not allowable on these grants).

If you intend to apply, please complete and submit an ORCS pre-approval form (which can be accessed via your Emerson ID and PIN) no later than Friday, December 9 (instructions for using the pre-approval form can be found here). The final application documents must be delivered to ORCS at least three business days before the sponsor deadline of January 6, 2023.

Forms and templates for the program can be downloaded here. The application consists of the following:

Project Description (three pages maximum)
Curriculum Vitae showing the application to be a university or college teacher
Detailed budget indicating the estimated travel expense to be incurred in carrying out the project
Completed Candidate Information Form (see attached document)
Two letters of recommendation from fellow faculty members or professors. One of these must be from your department chair The supporting letters must be on official letterhead.

Award winners will be notified by email on Monday, April 3, 2023. Grants typically do not exceed $6,000 and may begin as early as the Summer of 2023. Projects must be completed no later than May 31, 2025. Applications received after January 6, 2023 will not be considered by the Foundation.

If you have any questions about this opportunity or the application process, please contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.

Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG): Now Accepting Applications for AY23-24

By Eric Asetta

On October 26, 2022

In Internal Grant Announcements, Professional Development

The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant, Emerson College’s flagship program for support tenure-line faculty research and creative scholarship, is now accepting applications for funding in Academic Year 2022-23. Pre-approvals are due by November 10 and are required to obtain the application form. The proposal itself is due by Monday, December 5.

The FAFG was established to enable the professional work of Emerson’s faculty in its efforts to sustain academic excellence in teaching, research/creative activity, and service. The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant supports proposals deemed likely to substantially improve the quality of research, publication, creative activities, teaching, and service that advance the mission of the College and the careers of its faculty.

Awards are administered according to the guidelines of the Faculty Development and Research Council (FDRC) in the Faculty Assembly By-Laws. Support for approved projects ranges between $1,000 and $10,000. Applicants may request monetary support or (in rare instances) support in the form of a single course release (see “Eligible Projects” for more information). The exact type and amount of award will be determined by the project budget request, availability of funds, and recommendations made by the FDRC and the school deans to the Provost.

Current FAFG awardees can find guidance on spending and managing their awards at the Utilizing Your FAFG Funding page.

Fellowship Opportunity: Radcliffe (due Sep 8)

By Diana Potter

On August 11, 2022

In External Funding Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunities

The Radcliffe Fellowship is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. With access to Harvard’s unparalleled resources, Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate our past and our present.
This fellowship is open to full and part-time faculty who have received a doctorate or terminal degree at least 2 years prior to the start of the fellowship, and who have published a monograph or at least two articles in refereed journals or edited collections.

Applications in humanities, social sciences, and creative arts (which includes film/video, visual arts, creative writing and journalism) are due by September 8, 2022, and applications in science, engineering, and mathematics are due by September 29, 2022

Radcliffe welcomes proposals relevant to the Institute’s focus areas, which include:

Law, education, and justice
Youth leadership and civic engagement
Legacies of slavery
Women, gender, and society

Applying for a Radcliffe Fellowship is a direct-to-sponsor proposal submission, meaning that an application does not require the signature of an authorized Emerson official. We nonetheless strongly encourage you to notify your department chair and/or school dean if you are thinking of applying.

While ORCS cannot submit a Radcliffe proposal on your behalf, we are happy. to proofread and provide feedback on your application. We will give feedback on any materials sent to us by Monday, August 29.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

2022 MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Program

By Diana Potter

On June 7, 2022

In External Funding Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunities, Professional Development

Black Public Media, MIT Open Documentary Lab, and MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology are seeking applicants for the MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Program to support Black creatives who use emerging technology as their medium for documentary and nonfiction storytelling.

Typically participants are filmmakers, artists, journalists, or creative technologists, and the OpenDocLab and Black Public Media communities are primarily composed of storytellers. The mission of this joint program is to support and develop the emerging-tech storytelling skills of a maker who is underrepresented within creative technology industries and bring Visiting Artists into community with like-minded storytellers.

This is a 9-month independent study program from September 2022 to May 2023. Recipients have the option to do the program remotely or in person at MIT. This is an individual application, and both full-time and part-time faculty are eligible to apply. The deadline to apply is July 7, 2022.

More information, including how to apply, can be found here:

https://submissions.blackpublicmedia.org/submit/9e043f44-e27c-467d-8682-51d7afc49729/2022-mit-black-public-media-visiting-artist-program

Faculty Fellowship Opportunities due in Fall 2022

By Eric Asetta

On May 20, 2022

In Fellowship Opportunities

As we head into the summer season, it’s a good time to start thinking ahead to the fall, when a lot of fellowship applications are due. Fellowships have deadlines all year, but a large majority are due in the fall (September through December) for the following academic year.

This post provides examples of some fellowships of interest to Emerson faculty that are due this fall.

For more information about fellowships, how they can supplement a pre-tenure or sabbatical leave, or when to apply for one, please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu.

Fellowship Name

Discipline/Topic

Deadline

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Arts, humanities, sciences & social sciences

September 8, 2022

Fulbright US Scholar Program

Research abroad, many countries

September 15, 2022

ACLS Fellowship

all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences

September 28, 2022

Guggenheim Fellowship

scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts

mid-September 2022

Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellowship

Humanities, theme-based. Check back for 2023 theme

September 20, 2022

Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships

residential fellowship at Stanford Humanities Center

October 1, 2022

Institute of Advanced Studies (Princeton University)

Historical studies, social sciences, sciences, math; residential fellowship

October 15, 2022

Institute for Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancing Junior Faculty Fellowship

minority faculty; commitment to racial justice

mid-October 2022

American Association of University Women American Fellowship

women faculty

November 1, 2022

NEH Public Scholar Program

Book for general public

November 30, 2022

Institute for Citizens & Scholars Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Fellowship

junior faculty; funds projects that will make field/campus more inclusive

December 1, 2022

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

minority faculty

December 8, 2022

Harvard University Charles Warren Center Faculty Fellowship

American history; theme-based. Check back for 2023 theme

December 2022

Call for Proposals: Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award – Pre-Approval due March 21; Applications due April 4

By Eric Asetta

On March 8, 2022

In Internal Grant Announcements, Scholarship and Research

Description

Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Irma Mann Stearns ’67 established a distinguished faculty award in their name to honor a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to one applicant. This funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.

Key Dates

The Mann Stearns Award must be utilized between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. The application and selection period is as follows:

Pre-Approval due: March 21, 2021
Final Applications due to ORCS: April 4, 2022

Please submit your Internal Funding Proposal – Pre-Approval Form to the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship by March 21, 2022 For information and instructions on ORCS’s K2-based pre-approval form, please click here.

Eligibility

Full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members are eligible to apply for the Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award.

Criteria

In evaluating proposals, the committee will consider:

The applicant’s scholarly or creative achievement(s);
The quality, merits, feasibility, of the project for which the award funds will be used;
The inclusion of travel as a necessary component of the project; and
Publications, audio/video samples, or other supporting material.

Review Process

All applications will be reviewed by the Faculty Development and Research Council (FDRC), and with input from department Chairs, school Deans, and Academic Affairs. The FDRC will make the final recommendations to the Provost for funding. The Provost’s selections are final.

Application Instructions

This year, we have migrated the application packet to Google Forms. The advantages to this format include:

Email recognition: The form will recognize your Emerson email and open a blank application that will be automatically saved in your name.
Elimination of portable document errors: Reviewers will log directly into Google forms to read applications, removing the need to send electronic documents back and forth and reducing the chance for error.
Auto-save: The form saves your work automatically as you proceed.
Document uploads: Budget requests are now uploaded as a separate file, and you can also upload supplementary documents to bolster your proposal.
Ability to make revisions until the deadline: Applicants can make changes to their form up until the due date (April 4).

After you have submitted your pre-approval, you will be sent the link for the Mann Stearns application form. After you submit your proposal, you will receive a copy of your responses via email, and will have until April 4, 2022, to make any changes.

Applicants may include supplemental materials (publications, PDFs, media) that support their proposals with their submissions.

In addition to the application form and supplemental materials, a two-page curriculum vita should be included with each submission.

AY22-23 Calendar

DATE	EVENT
March 7, 2022	Norman & Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award is announced.
March 21, 2022	Internal Pre-Approval Form due to ORCS.
April 4, 2022	Applications due via Google Forms (link emailed after receipt of internal pre-approval form).
By April 21, 2022	The FDRC will evaluate all proposals and make recommendations to the Provost for funding.
By May 3, 2022	The Provost, in consideration of the recommendations provided by the FDRC, along with feedback from Department Chairs and School Deans, will make final selections
By May 6, 2022	Recipient(s) are notified that they are receiving the award.
July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023	Grant Period
June 15, 2023	Receipts for expenditures needing reimbursement must be submitted via Workday by this date.

Final Report Requirement

A final written report is not required, but the successful applicant is expected to meet with members of the Mann Stearns family and other members of Emerson College to discuss the final outcome and deliverables.

Huret Faculty Excellence Award: Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 Leaves (Final Award Cycle)

By Eric Asetta

On February 10, 2022

In Internal Grant Announcements, Professional Development, Scholarship and Research

Notice: The Huret Faculty Excellence Award will be sunsetted after the 2022-23 Academic Year. Proposals for the final application cycle (for a Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 leave) are due by March 1, 2022.

Award Description

The Huret Faculty Excellence Award supports tenured faculty research, creative projects, and innovative pedagogies and assessment on an annual basis. The goal of this award is to build a great professoriate by supporting and incentivizing associate professors to strive for promotion. Over a five-year period, one-semester leave awards are available for one to three faculty members each year to explore new creative, scholarly or research areas or to complete a project with the goal of moving toward promotion to full professor. The purpose of the leave award is to provide a bridge for faculty who have received tenure but who need some focused time to change a research direction, launch or complete a project, or to re-vitalize existing work.

Note: The Huret Faculty Excellence Award is a research leave that is an exception to the Handbook (13.1) since it is internal; it counts as continuous service toward promotion, but not as full-time service, since there is no teaching involved, and hence not toward time-at-the-College for sabbatical purposes.

Eligibility

All tenured associate faculty members are eligible to apply. Applicants who do not secure an award may re-apply in the future. The semester that faculty return to teach, they will need to teach three courses. Recipients may reapply in a subsequent year, but preference will be given to those who have not previously received the award. This award is not meant to be used in conjunction with a sabbatical. Preferance will be given to those who have not had a sabbatical recently and those who are not eligible for one soon.

Selection Criteria and Procedure

The Deans’ Council will review the applications and determine the number of leaves with a maximum of three annually. All applications will be reviewed within the context of the College’s mission and strategic initiatives: academic excellence, global and civic engagement and innovation.

Applications will be judged by the following criteria:

Importance of the project
Contribution to the field and to the career of the applicant
Quality and clarity of the written proposal
Feasibility of the project
Clarity of the conception of the project

Application Process

Completed applications should be no longer than three pages, double-spaced and must be accompanied by a current curriculum vita. They should be sent to the Dean and to the Provost. The application should address:

Proposed Project

Clearly describe the basic ideas and questions to be addressed by the proposal project and its theoretical or creative basis. In what ways will the research or creative work contribute to the field? Where will the work be done? What is the methodology? How much will be accomplished in the leave period and what are the plans and timetable for completing the project? Why is this award important for the faculty member’s career? How will this advance the faculty member toward promotion? How will this contribute to Emerson generally and/or its strategic priorities?

Evaluation of Award Effectiveness

Awards will be evaluated on the following:

within the framework of the proposal, progress, completion, or submission of the product created during the leave,
manuscript submitted to a conference or journal,
work submitted to a juried competition,
reflection by the faculty member on the project or leave, and
its impact on the field and their career.

All award recipients will need to submit a written report about the work completed during the first month they return to the College; inclusion of creative work, published work, or work-in-progress is welcomed.

The Deans’ Council will meet with Judy and Bob Huret after two years to assess the applicants, recipients and impact. At this time, recipients of the award will be invited to share their perspectives at a lunch with the deans and the Hurets.

Call for Applications: 3-Day Workshop to Support Community Engaged Pedagogy (The Engagement Lab)

By Eric Asetta

On February 8, 2022

In Internal Grant Announcements, Professional Development, Uncategorized

What: 3-day Workshop to Support Community Engaged Pedagogy

When: May 16 – 18 (10am to 4pm, lunch included)

Where: Engagement Lab (Boston Campus)

Compensation: $1,000 for faculty participation

Application Due: February 15

Info session: February 4, 10 ET on Zoom

Description

Learning can transform the lives of our students. And when we extend the college classroom beyond our students, not only can it enhance student learning, but it can transform the lives of those in the extended community of Boston.

Emerson is committed to cultivating a learning culture that extends beyond our campus. Facilitated by the Engagement Lab, the College is investing in “partnered studios,” which are semester-long courses taught in collaboration with an outside community, with explicit social impact goals.

The Engagement Lab is launching a new program to support faculty who’d like to work with partners, helping to document processes, identify and measure social impact, and amplify outcomes. We are also committed to supporting sustainable partnerships that are not solely the responsibility of an individual faculty member.

We are doing this primarily through multi-year initiatives. In December 2021, we launched the Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence Initiative (TNGVI) – a collaboration between MGH’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention, the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, and the Engagement Lab. The initiative supports 3-4 studios each semester from a range of disciplines, and is engaging those most impacted by gun violence in Boston to collaboratively work with our students to create media, redefine systems, and advocate for policy changes.

In the fall of 2022, we are planning to launch a second initiative focused on Climate Justice in Boston. The effects of climate change will disproportionately impact communities of color in this city, and there is an urgent need to transform how narratives get told and who gets to tell them. Similarly, this initiative will stand up 3-4 studios each semester, coming from departments across the College, and be in partnership with climate justice organizations and impacted communities throughout the Boston area.

The Opportunity

To participate in these initiatives, or to gain support with existing partnerships, you are invited to a 3-day studio-design workshop this summer to create or refine your approach to community engaged pedagogy. We will explore the opportunities and challenges in these kinds of courses, identify and secure partnerships, define social impact goals, and design tailored support structures for each course. The workshop will take place May 16-18 from 10-4 each day. Lunch will be provided. And faculty will receive a $1,000 stipend for their participation.

To apply, please send a one-page statement to Eric Gordon (eric_gordon@emerson.edu) describing your interest in participating by February 15. An information session will be offered Friday, February 4 at 10am on Zoom. Feel free to reach out with any questions in the meantime.

FY23 Funding Guidelines Released for National Endowment for the Arts

By Eric Asetta

On February 7, 2022

In External Funding Opportunities, Federal Agency Announcements, Federal Funding, Limited Submission Competition, Scholarship and Research

Guidelines and application materials for Grants for Arts Projects funding are now available on the National Endowment for the Arts’ website at arts.gov/grants (The program was previously called “Art Works”). Applications for projects beginning in 2022 will be due February 10 & July 7, 2022. Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000 (including indirect costs), and require a 1:1 institutional cost share/match.

Application Limits

As an educational institution, Emerson College may submit only one application under these FY 2023 Grants for Arts Projects guidelines, with the following exceptions:

Applications for Ploughshares, ArtsEmerson, HowlRound, and WERS, each of which NEA has classified as an “independent component” of Emerson;
Emerson may submit more than one application in the Grants for Arts Projects category through the Media Arts discipline at the July 7, 2022, deadline.

If you are thinking of applying this year, please contact ORCS at your earliest convenience. Depending on the number of inquiries, the College may need to hold an internal competition to select a single project for submission.

Program Description

Grants for Arts Projects is NEA’s principal grants program for organizations based in the United States.

Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. We encourage projects that address any of the following:

Elevate artists as integral and essential to a healthy and vibrant society
Celebrate the nation’s creativity and/or cultural heritage
Enrich our humanity by broadening our understanding of ourselves as individuals and as a society
Originate from or are in collaboration with the following constituencies encouraged by White House executive orders:
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Tribal Colleges and Universities
American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes
African American Serving Institutions
Hispanic Serving Institutions
Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
Organizations that support the independence and lifelong inclusion of people with disabilities.

In recognition of the United States of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026, we also welcome arts projects that educate and engage communities in dialogue about the past, present, and future of our nation.

Diversity Fellows Program: Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Cohort

By Eric Asetta

On February 7, 2022

In Internal Grant Announcements, Professional Development, Scholarship and Research

Description

Statements of Interest are now being accepted for the 2022 cohort of Emerson College’s Diversity Fellows Program.

The Diversity Fellows Program (formerly known as the Inclusive Excellence Fellows Program) is an annual, cohort-based program. This program invites participants to critically reflect upon the relationship between social realities, social futures, and their pedagogical practices.

The practices and business of education have been, and continue to be, intertwined with social norms, political movements, and forces that work to impede or amplify calls for justice and liberation.

Fellows of this program will work to:

critically examine how their disciplines and courses operate in discourse with social norms, narratives, and practices;
explore their notions of curriculum; and
implement a specific, equity-oriented pedagogical shift.

Each Fellow will develop goals unique to one of the courses they teach and a pedagogical action plan based on intertwining sociocultural knowledge, content and industry-based knowledge, and empowering pedagogical practices.

During the Fall semester, Fellows will work to implement the goals they develop. Dr. Tuesda Roberts and Samantha Ivery will support those efforts in the form of individual consultation meetings with each Fellow, as well as in the form of whole-group meetings. Fellows will also be encouraged to support each other as they move from goal-setting to successful implementation.

Faculty members ideally situated to become Fellows are:

poised to use sociocultural knowledge to transform their pedagogical practices within a Fall semester course they will teach;
willing to engage in sustained professional growth via individual and cooperative engagement; and
committed to enhancing students’ learning experiences by meaningfully integrating “depth and diversity” into the communication and creative arts curriculum

Stipend

Fellows will be compensated $1,000, with $700 to be dispersed after completing the May workshop, and $300 to be dispersed at the conclusion of the Fall semester, pending:

their participation in the two Sustained Engagement Consultations,
submission of a written Impact Statement.

Please note that stipends are processed as supplemental compensation and are subject to applicable payroll taxes.

Eligibility

Eligibility to be a part of the Diversity Fellows Program is based on:

status as a full-time faculty member, or an affiliated faculty member (Step 3 or above);
commitment to participate in a three-day workshop (dates below);
commitment to participate in two Sustained Engagement meetings; and
willingness to submit an Impact Statement regarding the outcomes, successes, and challenges of implementing the pedagogical plan of action fellows develop.

Evaluation Criteria

The strength and value of cohort-based programs, in part, is derived from having a group of individuals whose backgrounds, interests, and perspectives are diverse, especially when those qualities work in complimentary ways that promote dialog and growth. As such, Statement reviewers will consider the following factors when constructing each year’s cohort:

thoughtfulness of responses to Statement of Interest prompts, including the clarity of the proposed pedagogical goals;
faculty members’ clear descriptions of the connection they seek to make between their course, equity, and/or social justice; and
the importance of creating a cohesive cohort, representative of varying interests and pedagogical aims

Application Process

Eligible applicants may complete and submit a Statement of Interest via Google Forms by the deadline stated in the calendar below.

Selection Process

Statements of Interest submitted by the deadline will be reviewed by Dr. Tuesda Roberts and Samantha Ivery. A recommended list of cohort members will then be shared for feedback with the Vice Provost for Internationalization and Equity, the Vice President for Equity and Social Justice, the Assistant Provost for Faculty Affairs, and the Provost.

Final decisions will be made by Dr. Tuesda Roberts and Samantha Ivery.

Calendar

March 16, 2022 – Final day to submit Statements of Interest
April 8, 2022 – Cohort members receive invitations to participate
May 10 – 12, 2022 – Three-day workshop to take place
TBD – Cohort members participate in two Sustained Engagement meetings
November/December 2022 – Cohort members submit a written reflection regarding the outcomes, successes, and challenges of implementing a pedagogical plan of action

Contact

For questions regarding this program, please email DFP@emerson.edu to reach Dr. Tuesda Roberts, Director for Faculty Development and Diversity, and Samantha Ivery, Director of Diversity and Equity Initiatives.