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GLCA New Directions Initiative

"The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) has received a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch the New Directions Initiative. The focus of this new program is to support the renewal and continued professional growth of liberal arts faculty members in 'mid-career' - the extensive professional period between receiving tenure and thinking seriously about retirement.

A particular emphasis of this program is to help faculty members think outside traditional boundaries and divisions of their discipline and of typical faculty work - chart a course that leads beyond the familiar waters of one's early academic achievements and embarks on the extended journey of a stimulating faculty career. Three general themes capture this emphasis:

  • To Broaden Intellectual Perspectives, helping mid-career faculty to expand their horizons and understand issues beyond the context of their own disciplines in conjunction with other faculty members who share similar interests;
  • To Stimulate Innovation in Pedagogy, providing opportunities for faculty to work together in sharpening pedagogy, based on expanding knowledge and best practices for teaching both within and beyond particular fields of study;
  • To Pursue Singular Explorations, which accord individual faculty members the time required to explore a new career direction. "

Proposals will be reviewed three times in the fall and the spring.

  • Fall 2009 review dates: September 28, November 2, and December 14.
  • Spring 2010 review dates: January 24, March 8, and April 19

For more information

Applying

  1. All GLCA NDI proposals must have attached the Institutional Awareness form see "Forms" below
  2. Everyone puts the name of the project proposer, the proposal title, and the institution;
  3. If you check "yes" to the statement "This proposal has departmental or institutional obligations (e.g., course release, creation of a new course, redirection of existing resources)," you must forward the form to your department chair and then to the provost for their acknowledgment of awareness and support if funded;
  4. If you check "no" to the statement above, you still need to submit the form to the GLCA but not to your dept. chair or to the Provost;
  5. The Provost will no longer be writing a letter of support (the GLCA does not want the CAOs to do this from now on);
  6. The Provost should be aware of all grant applications from Kenyon faculty, you still need to send him a copy of your proposal to be in compliance with internal Kenyon procedures.

FORMS

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