Fellowships in Service-Learning

Due to campus-wide budget cuts, CSL Faculty Fellowships have been suspended for the 2009-2010 academic year. If you received a Request for Proposals, please disregard it.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you have questions about service-learning or would like to talk with someone about developing a service-learning course, please contact the CSL Faculty Liaison at (413) 577-4251 or cslfaculty@comcol.umass.edu.

 

OVERVIEW

The Provost's Committee on Service Learning awards grants to units and faculty planning to build CSL into a course, a major, or into other parts of their curriculum. 

The Committee created these awards in 1994 to support sustainable structural change that increases or improves CSL opportunities on campus.  The members hope that the units and courses selected to receive awards will become models for others at UMass Amherst. 

TYPES OF AWARDS

The following awards are typically available:

Faculty Teaching Awards ($3,500 over three years)
awarded to a faculty member—or a team that shares a course—to develop a new CSL course or redesign an existing course to incorporate student service to the community

Scholarly Engagement: Faculty Research Awards (up to $1,000)
awarded to support faculty (individually or in teams) in designing or implementing a research or evaluation project related to CSL work in which the faculty member is or has been engaged, and in writing up the findings for publication

Unit Planning Grants (up to $2,000 each)
awarded to support a college, department, center or interdisciplinary program in a year of planning for ways to integrate CSL into the unit’s curriculum

Unit Implementation Grants (up to $10,000 each)
awarded to support a college, department, center or interdisciplinary program in as it builds CSL into the unit’s curriculum

Undergraduate Course Assistant Awards
provides stipends for undergraduate Course Assistants who provide former Faculty Fellows who are teaching a CSL course with ongoing logistical and classroom support

CONTACTS

Allison Reid
Faculty Liaison, Office of Community Service Learning
577-4251, CSLfaculty@comcol.umass.edu

John Reiff
Director, Office of Community Service Learning
577-1207, csldirector@comcol.umass.edu

Dave Schimmel
Provost's Committee on Service Learning Co-Chair,
School of Education
545-1529, schimmel@educ.umass.edu

John Jenkins
Provost's Committee on Service Learning Co-Chair,
Music and Dance
545-0030, jenkins@admin.umass.edu