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Faculty Student Activity Grant Program
2007-2008 FACULTY-STUDENT ACTIVITY GRANT PROGRAM GUIDELINES
As part of the UC|Great Beginnings initiative, the Center for First Year Experience and Learning Communities has set aside funds to assist with expenses for out-of-class interactions between faculty and their freshmen students.
Connecting with individual faculty members through directed learning experiences that are held outside of the classroom environment enriches students’ collegiate experience. The Faculty-Student Activity Grant program is intended to support faculty-freshmen student interactions as one component of the UC|Great Beginnings initiative. UC|Great Beginnings aims: (1) to help students acquire intellectual and self-management skills needed for success in the university, as well as in life-long learning; (2) to get students engaged with the cultural life and diversity of this large, urban, research university; (3) to focus students’ attention on what their professional and civic responsibilities to the world might be as educated persons; and (4) to advance students’ capacity to make connections between knowledge gained from multiple sources and to apply their increasingly comprehensive understanding to new questions and situations.
Eligible activities must relate to the learning objectives for a course that enrolls at least 15 freshmen. Upper-year students are welcome to participate in funded activities if they are enrolled in the course. In other words, funding is granted for out-of-class activities for entire course populations with the expectation that at least 15 freshmen will take part.
PROCESS AND DEADLINES:
Activities must be sponsored by a course instructor.
The award process works on sliding scale. Faculty/Instructors who teach small enrollment courses may request up to $300 per course per quarter; faculty/instructors who teach larger enrollment courses may request additional funding depending on the number of students that they expect to participate in the planned activity/event.
Sustained activities over more than one quarter are encouraged, but must be applied for separately.
Requests must be submitted at least 14 days before the proposed activity but no sooner than 45 days prior to the first class period for the course associated with the event. (For example, requests may be submitted in mid-fall quarter for an activity associated with a winter term course.) We recommend providing the review committee as much time as possible to consider your request.
Applications for funding must be submitted by email to: Jennifer.Dively@uc.edu, Executive Staff Assistant, Center for First Year Experience and Learning Communities.
Requests will be reviewed promptly by a committee comprised of UC faculty, an undergraduate student representative, and chaired by Pam Person, Director of the Center for First Year Experience and Learning Communities. Funding decisions of the committee are final.
Our expectation is that faculty will pay for these expenses out of pocket and be reimbursed. We do not process department-to-department transfers of money and we do not reimburse individuals who are not employed by the university. If you are unable to cover the cost of your event/activity, please contact us to make acceptable arrangements by emailing Jennifer.Dively@uc.edu or calling 556-4949.
To get reimbursed faculty must submit a post-activity report and original receipts no later than 15 days after the event occurs. Moreover, the reimbursement may not exceed the approved amount and the reimbursement amount may not exceed the receipt total. NO EXCEPTIONS!
SAMPLE ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES:
Class outings or fieldtrips to course-relevant locations, museums, or conservatories
Lectures, plays, concerts, or movies that touch upon concepts covered in the course
Programs geared toward freshmen where faculty-student interaction and mentoring is the focus
SAMPLE FUNDED ACTIVITIES INCLUDED:
SAID students in the College of DAAP attended dinners hosted in faculty homes to learn more about the lifestyles of practicing professionals in their field. Over the course of dinner, the instructor helped the students to relate this experience to various lifestyles and make connections with design issues and principles.
Mathematical Sciences faculty hosted a contest for Calculus students.
An Honors English Composition faculty shared a meal at Pho Paris with her students to further explore the course theme of the “Rhetorics of Food” and its relationship to French-Vietnamese culture. The dinner, in particular, allowed for a deeper discussion of the course reading on The Book of Salt, a novel about a Vietnamese refugee in the early 20th century who works as a cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
? Aerospace Engineering faculty hosted a Flight Test Competition for First Year Students.
A Center for Access and Transition faculty took a group of English Composition students to view the “Suite for Freedom” & “The Struggle Continues” exhibits at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to explore the course themes of “What does history mean in the 21st century?” and “Does an understanding of the past help shape the future?” and provide an experiential hands-on opportunity to explore the various ways in which knowledge is constructed and disseminated.
An Art History faculty at Clermont College took a group of students to the Holocaust Musuem followed by a dinner-discussion at a Middle Eastern restaurant to foster a greater understanding of Jewish and Middle Eastern cultures.
A Psychology instructor assigned students to work on a research project at Findlay Market to introduce students to the systematic observation and analysis of human behavior. Throughout the course of the day, students interacted with the instructor to get pointers on their research project.
Students in an English Composition course attended a poetry reading with their course instructor followed by a discussion of what they learned.
A faculty member teaching a Criminal Justice course took students on a field trip to a local prison to learn how a correctional institute operates, reflects society’s punishment goals, the types of crimes committed by the inmates, the length of their sentences and what their day-to-day routine is like. The bus ride to and from the prison is used for discussion and reflection.
THIS COMMITTEE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:
Pizza parties for end of quarter celebrations
Food for study sessions
Unit, departmental, or program receptions and similar events
2007-2008 Faculty-Student Activity Grant Application
2007-2008 Faculty-Student Activity Grant Report
2007-2008 Faculty-Student Activity Grant Sign-in Sheet
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