In no less than one page but no more than three pages, please describe the project for which the grant is requested. Be sure to include a discussion of the intellectual background of the proposed project, written for an audience of non specialists. The proposal should also include a rationale for the project, a description of the proposed research or study, an explanation of the expected results or benefits, and an indication of how these benefits will be communicated to the WSC community.

One page of the proposal should provide a detailed budget and budget justification, including a statement detailing where equipment or materials purchased with grant/award funds will be housed. Equipment, books and other materials and supplies purchased with grant funds are the property of WSC and must remain at the institution. Budgets must include dollar amounts and/or hours of release time requested.

Applications for renewal grants should focus on the current instructional, extracurricular, scholarly or creative work of faculty members and their future goals. Applicants should take care to explain how the renewal grant will further the faculty member's research, creative, or teaching goals, and how the faculty member will communicate the results of the project to the college community.

Applicants should also attach a one-page bibliography of materials for research and creative projects, a teaching portfolio of relevant syllabi, and available measures of the faculty member's direct impact upon, and involvement with, students.

All applications should include a one-page CV detailing pertinent experience and previous Wayne State College grant support.
 
 

Wayne State Foundation will provide five $2,000 awards to support projects that promote the intellectual development of students.

Guidelines:

1. The projects must focus on one of the following:

    a) assisting students in refining communication and critical thinking skills;
    b) promoting students’ ability to make connections across general education disciplines;
    c) increasing students’ intellectual curiosity;
    d) promoting students’ development through the innovative use of technology;
    e) promoting students’ ability to learn independently;
    f) promoting student-faculty research collaboration.

2. All full-time tenured/tenure track faculty as well as Library and Student Services professional staff members who collaborate with them are eligible to apply for the awards.

3. A panel of five junior/senior honors students to be selected by the Scholarship, Honors, Financial Aid Committee will review and comment on all proposals. Following that review, a committee consisting of a member of the Wayne State Foundation Executive Committee and current Wayne State College faculty who received the Nebraska State College Teaching Excellence Award will recommend to the Vice President for Academic Affairs projects for funding.

4. Year-end reports on the projects will be disseminated at the fall opening faculty meeting and forwarded to the Wayne State Foundation Executive Committee.