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COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING
Annually, 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 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.
The following awards are available for 2008-2009:
$3,500 over three years awarded to faculty who are developing new CSL courses or revising and/or sustaining current courses that integrate into the curriculum direct student service to the community and use students’ service experience to enhance their learning
Up to $1,000 awarded to individual faculty or teams of faculty who have taught courses with CSL components and are proposing to do research leading to publication on their CSL work, or to present the results of their CSL research at a national conference
Up to $2,000 awarded to support colleges, departments, centers or interdisciplinary programs in a year of planning for ways to integrate CSL into the unit’s curriculum
Up to $10,000 awarded to colleges, departments, centers, or interdisciplinary programs that propose to build CSL into the unit’s curriculum
Stipends and training awarded for undergraduate course assistants to provide ongoing logistical and classroom support to former Faculty Fellows teaching a CSL course
For more information about how to apply for a Faculty Fellowship, click here.
Thursday, February 28, 2008; 8:30-9:30am; 406A Goodell Building: Information/Technical Assistance session*
Monday, March 3, 2008: Intent to Apply due (strongly encouraged but not required)
Friday, March 7, 2008; 1:30-2:30pm; 406A Goodell Building: Information/Technical Assistance session*
Friday, March 28, 2008: Application due
by Friday, April 25, 2008: Notification
late spring 2008: Award recipients honored at the Distinguished Academic Outreach Awards Ceremony
* Faculty may also contact any of the individuals named below for suggestions and assistance.
Faculty receiving unit grants, teaching awards, or research awards agree to carry out the teaching or research they have proposed, as well as doing the following:
1. Participate in two half-day CSL workshops—the first to be held 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2008 and the second 10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. on Friday, September 5, 2008.
2. Participate in monthly luncheon seminars held 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month beginning in October through the remainder of the academic year. Seminars will meet on October 3, November 7, December 5, February 6, March 6, April 3, and May 1. CSL Teaching Award grantees will also participate in monthly seminars the following academic year.
3. Submit a report at the end of the fellowship period on the progress toward the integration of CSL into their course or their unit’s curriculum or on the outcome of their research (with a copy of any presentations or publications).
4. Faculty commit to teach CSL courses supported by these awards at least three times in the next four years and department chairs agree that the courses can be offered on that schedule.
PROVOST’S COMMITTEE ON SERVICE-LEARNING
c/o John Reiff
UMass Office of Community Service Learning at Commonwealth College
610 Goodell Building – UMass Amherst
(or by e-mail to CSLfaculty@comcol.umass.edu – except for signature page, which must be in hard copy)
John Reiff, Community Service Learning
577-1207 or jreiff@comcol.umass.edu
Kelly Cowdery, Community Service Learning
577-4251 or kcowdery@educ.umass.edu
Dave Schimmel, School of Education
545-1529 or schimmel@educ.umass.edu
John Jenkins, Music and Dance
545-0030 or jenkins@admin.umass.edu
Art Keene, Anthropology
545-0214 or keene@anthro.umass.edu
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