Service Learning Faculty Fellowship Info Session
The Provost’s Committee on Service Learning has released an RFP for Service Learning Faculty Fellowships for individual faculty, teams of faculty and whole units. These include Unit Implementation Grants (schools and colleges, departments, centers, and interdisciplinary programs) for up to $10,000, Unit Planning Grants for up to $2,000, Individual Faculty Teaching Awards for $2,000, and Faculty Research Awards for up to $1,000. Additional funding is available for units or individual faculty who develop CSL courses in collaboration with UMass Extension.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates community service with learning to enhance both service and learning. Over 100 of your colleagues have done it as Service Learning Faculty Fellows since 1994. CSL works in any discipline. Disciplines at UMass Amherst have included nuclear physics, archaeology, visual arts, history, marketing, and many others.
CSL Unit Grants and Teaching Awards are designed to support sustainable structural change that increases or improves CSL opportunities on campus. The Committee seeks proposals from units and faculty that are planning to build CSL into a course, a major, or into other parts of their curriculum. Department chairs must commit to offering on a continuing basis CSL courses supported by a grant or award. Faculty from various departments are encouraged to partner in developing new CSL courses.
These RFP materials are available on the web, at http://www.umass.edu/csl/faculty.html, where you can also read profiles of past fellows work.
Information sessions are scheduled on Friday, February 25, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the Commonwealth College lounge, outside 504 Goodell. Faculty interested in coming to an information session are encouraged to RSVP to the Office of Community Service Learning at 545-2015 or at servelearn.acad.umass.edu. For more information, faculty are also invited to contact me (jreiff@comcol.umass.edu, 577-1207), the Provost’s Committee chair, Dave Schimmel (schimmel@educ.umass.edu, 545-1529), or Art Keene (keene@anthro.umass.edu, 545-0214).
Proposals are due by March 21.
Directions & Parking
Goodell is located west of the campus pond and Old Chapel, and is easily identified by its portico with four white columns at the entrance. Public parking is available in the Campus Center parking garage or in Lot 32 across Mass. Ave. Handicapped parking is located on the north side of the building on Hicks Way.