Campus Writing Program Summer Writing-Teaching Grants

Each summer the Campus Writing Program offers course development grants to faculty members on the IUB campus. Reproduced below is the call for applications.

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Application Deadline: February 19, 2010

The Campus Writing Program, in conjunction with the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, is soliciting applications for as many as five $1500 Summer Writing-Teaching Grants dedicated to helping faculty design undergraduate courses that use writing in innovative and fruitful ways.

Bloomington campus faculty members are eligible for the awards (tenured, tenure-track, and clinical faculty, and lecturers). Recipients should devote two weeks of full-time effort to incorporating writing into courses they teach; they may not be on appointment for any other teaching, administrative, or research duties during the grant period.

Grant recipients will meet twice with other fellows and with Writing Program consultants as necessary. A report outlining the design of the course or courses and evaluating the efficacy of that design in the classroom must be produced within a calendar year of the end of the fellowship period. Recipients can also expect an invitation to present their work to other faculty in one of the Campus Writing Program’s faculty workshops.

The Writing Program is eager to fund the efforts of faculty who wish to use writing to solve a pedagogical problem as well as to teach undergraduate students to express, to reformulate, or to apply the concepts of an academic discipline. Applications are welcome from faculty in all disciplines; particularly encouraged are proposals that:

represent substantive changes from a conventional lecture-test format;
promise to employ imaginative, practical, and replicable ways of using writing to teach or to evaluate;
would allow students to meet departmental or school requirements.

Courses supported by CWP grants must be taught within the subsequent academic year. Applications must include a letter from the department chair or dean that endorses the project and certifies that the applicant will teach the course twice in the following three academic years.

The deadline for submission of applications is the third Friday of February each year; in 2010, that is February 19. A short application form is available online as a Word document, and may be returned to cwp@indiana.edu.

Additional forms are available from the Campus Writing Program, Maxwell Hall 222 (855-4928).

Please direct questions about the grants and application procedures to Laura Plummer, Director, Campus Writing Program (lplummer@indiana.edu; 855-4928). Past winners of Writing-Teaching Grants and staff from the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education will serve as referees; awards will be announced in March each year.

Past Recipients of Campus Writing Program Summer Writing-Teaching Fellowships and Grants

Summer 1992 Awards

Brian Caraher (English): fellowship
David Daleke (Chemistry): fellowship
Laura Ginger (Business Law): fellowship
Rosemary Lloyd (French and Italian): fellowship
Elizabeth Pastan (Fine Arts): fellowship
Thomas Postlewait (Theatre and Drama): fellowship
Samuel Skinner (Biology): fellowship
John Woodcock (English): fellowship

From 1993 through 2000, awards were made in the form of fellowships, for an eight-week period of course design, and grants, for a two-week period. All awards made in 1992 were for an eight-week period.

Summer 1993 Awards

Robert Botne (Linguistics): grant
Sandra Dolby (Folklore Institute): fellowship
Barbara Fazio (Speech and Hearning Sciences): grant
John Lucaites (Speech Communication): grant
Luise McCarty (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies): fellowship
C.A. Nelson (Classical Studies): fellowship
Mary Remley (Kinesiology): fellowship
Richard Rubin (SPEA): fellowship
Rakesh Solomon (Theatre and Drama): fellowship
Joan Sterrenburg (Fine Arts): fellowship
Brian Winchester (African Studies Program): fellowship

Summer 1994 Awards

Michael Berkvam (French and Italian): fellowship
Curtis Bonk (Education): grant
George Dreher (Management): grant
Bernard Flury (Mathematics): fellowship
John Lucaites (Speech Communication): fellowship
John Walbridge (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures): fellowship
Barbara Wolf (Education): fellowship

Summer 1995 Awards

Ben Eklof (History): fellowship
John Hanson (History): fellowship
Michael Hogan (Speech Communication): grant
Charles Livingston (Mathematics): grant
C. Thomas Mitchell (AMID): fellowship
David Pace (History): fellowship
Scott Robeson (Geography): grant
Elyce Rotella (Economics): fellowship
Linda Smith (Psychology): grant

Summer 1996 Awards

Yvette Alex-Assensoh (Political Science): fellowship
Judy Failer (Political Science): fellowship
Robert Fulk (English): fellowship
Valerie Grim (Afro-American Studies): grant
Barbara Klinger (Comparative Literature): grant
Dennis Rome (Afro-American Studies): fellowship
Jeanne Sept (Anthropology): fellowship

Summer 1997 Awards

Robert Campany (Religious Studies): grant
Ellen Dwyer (Criminal Justice): fellowship
Norman Furniss (Political Science): grant
Jerome Harste (Language Education): fellowship
Edward Hirt (Psychology): fellowship
Bradley Levinson (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies): grant
Armando Machado (Psychology): fellowship
Cary Wolfe (English): grant

Summer 1998 Awards

Thomas Busey (Psychology): grant
John Carini (Physics): grant
Kathryn Flannery (English): fellowship
Paul Franks (Philosophy): fellowship
George Malacinski (Biology): fellowship
David McCarty (Philosophy): fellowship
Timothy O'Connor (Philosophy): fellowship
Georgia Strange (School of Fine Arts): grant
Richard Wilk (Anthropology): grant
John Woodcock (English): fellowship

Summer 1999 Awards

Lawrence J. Friedman (History): fellowship
Paul Gutjahr (English): fellowship
Michael McGinnis (Political Science): grant
C. Thomas Mitchell (Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design): fellowship
Michael Robinson (East Asian Languages): grant
Thomas Tai-Seale (Applied Health Science): fellowship
Arvind Verma (Criminal Justice): grant

Summer 2000 Awards

Cynthia Bannon (Classical Studies): grant
Mary K. Grusak (School of Music): grant
Martha M. McCarthy (School of Education): grant
Patrick McNaughton (Art History): fellowship
John R. McRae (Religious Studies): fellowship
Deanna L. Reising (School of Nursing): grant
Ruth V. Russell (HPER): grant
Maxine Watson (Biology): fellowship

Since 2004, all awards have been made in the form of grants for a two-week period of course design.

Summer 2004 Awards

Bruce Burgun (Theatre and Drama)
Julia Fox (Telecommunications)
Phaedra Pezzullo (Communication and Culture)
Raja Sooriamurthi (Information Systems)

Summer 2005 Awards

Sandra Dolby (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Tim Hallett (Sociology)
Anderson Norton (Curriculum and Instruction)
Eric Sandweis (History)
Kalpana Shankar (Informatics)

Summer 2006 Awards

Justyna Beinek (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Dionne Danns (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies)
Mary Gray (Communication and Culture)
Fabio Rojas (Sociology)

Summer 2007 Awards

Ilana Gershon (Communication and Culture)
Kip Schlegel (Criminal Justice)
Lisa Thomassen (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Brenda Weber (Gender Studies)

Summer 2008 Awards

Denise Cruz (English)
Colin Johnson (Gender Studies)
Frederika Kaestle (Anthropology)
Jill Robinson (Chemistry)

Summer 2009 Awards

Rebecca Lave (Geography)
Adam Leite (Philosophy)
Julie Van Voorhis (School of Fine Arts)
Erik Willis (Spanish and Portuguese)