Call for Proposals
Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grant (SFCCG)
Applicant(s): ____________________________________________________________
Applicant Department(s): __________________________________________________
Project Title: ____________________________________________________________
Check one:
___Incentive Grant for New Faculty
___Grant for Experienced Faculty
Have you received a previous Student/Faculty Collaboration Challenge Grant Award?
___ Yes ____ No If so, what year? _______*
Proposal Action Deadlines: (both hardcopy to Department Chair
and electronic copy to michael.ameigh@oswego.edu
are due by 4:30 PM, second Monday in February)
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Applicant Signature
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Date
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Applicant Signature
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Date
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Applicant Signature
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Chair to Dean: signature denotes approval. Please attach a brief explanation if you DO NOT support this proposal.
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Department Chair
_____________________ Third Monday in February
Date
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Dean
_____________________ Fourth Monday in February
Date
Dean routes application to the Provost's Office, 702 Culkin Hall, by fourth Monday in February.
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SCAC Committee Chair representing review committee
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Date
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Provost
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*If the faculty member has received this award before, the report of that work must accompany this application.
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Application
Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants
There is $15,000 available to provide up to five awards of $3,000 each for faculty collaborating
with undergraduate and graduate students on professional scholarly or creative projects. Funds
may be used to purchase needed supplies and equipment, travel to conduct the project or
disseminate results, and/or cover other expenses related to the project.
The purpose of the Challenge Award program is to promote and support true student/faculty
scholarly collaboration. It is not the goal of the program to fund research assistants, but rather to
assist faculty in providing motivated students, particularly undergraduates, with graduate-level
scholarly and creative experiences. Successful applicants will be engaged in an ongoing project
with one or more students who participate in a direct and meaningful way in every stage of the
project from initial conception to dissemination of results. As a condition of this award, results
must be submitted to a national or regional conference and presented at QUEST.
Grants will be available immediately after approval by the Provost with work expected to be
completed and report submitted by June 1st of the year in which the work is to be completed.
Eligibility
All full-time permanent teaching faculty (including librarians), and full-time temporary faculty who
have multi-year contracts and are not in their final year are eligible to participate in this program.
Non-teaching professionals on term and continuing appointment in the Division of Academic
Affairs are ineligible under this program but are encouraged to apply for funding under the
Scholarly and Creative Activity grant program. Applicants may receive a maximum of one
Challenge Award per year and may submit only one application. No grants are awarded to
individuals who will be on sabbatical at the time they would receive the grant. Previous receipt of
a SFCCG or SCAC student or faculty award does not affect eligibility for an SFCCG Award.
However, reports for all previous awards must have been submitted.
To extend the benefits of this program to as many eligible faculty and students as possible, faculty
or students who have had grants approved and funded under the Scholarly and Creative Activity
(SCAC) grant program during the same award period are not eligible for funding under SFCCG
program. Faculty may receive a Challenge Award and Course Innovation Grant during the same
award cycle.
Funding Amounts
The total amount available for any one grant is $3,000. Faculty/student research teams submitting a
grant must indicate how the money will be spent on an itemized budget sheet. There are no
minimum or maximums for specific budget categories. A strong justification for each item must be
included. The Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee reserves the right to reduce the amount
of the award from the amount of the budget request, as does the Provost. No individual faculty or
student may be involved in more than one (1) faculty/student collaboration during a given
application cycle.
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Deadline
Your proposal must be complete, signed by you, and turned in to your department chair by 4:30
PM on the day of the deadline (second Monday in February). It is the responsibility of your chair to
do his/her part within the specified time and deliver it to your dean. You also must submit an
electronic copy (MS Word format or Adobe Acrobat format) of your proposal by 4:30 PM on the
day of the deadline. You do not need to put signatures on the routing sheet for the electronic copy.
The electronic copy should be e-mailed directly to Michael Ameigh, Asst. Provost (e-mail:
michael.ameigh@oswego.edu ).
Guidelines and Instructions
Proposals for SFCCG awards should be concise, between four (4) and six (6) pages (excluding
resume and attachments). Please submit the appropriate cover/routing and budget sheets.
Extraneous documentation is discouraged although critical research instruments (surveys, etc.)
should be included as appendices.
1.Description of your project (Required of all applicants) This description must be complete and
specific, with a limited text of six single-sided and double-spaced pages. Write clearly and
persuasively so that a literate but non-expert reviewer can understand and appreciate your project.
The description should address the following areas:
Nature of the faculty/student collaboration: What are the roles and responsibilities of faculty and
student collaborators? How are the students being prepared to fulfill their roles and responsibilities
within the project? Will students be included as co-authors on manuscripts and conference
presentations resulting from the work, and will they actually participate in the preparation of these
documents? Please include evidence of successful collaborative work between the faculty member
and the student if such exists. This can include papers, presentations, or grant writing.
The entire proposal may be written by a student, which is encouraged, and if so, it should be clearly
indicated in this section. If the proposal is written by a faculty member, each student applicant
should individually respond to these specific questions in the application:
1. Describe the role you expect to play in this project.
2. Describe how you are prepared to carry out you role in this project.
3. Describe how the project contributes to your professional and personal growth.
Current status of project development: How far along is the project? What has been the extent of
the student’s contribution thus far? Can you reasonably expect the work to reach the stage of
dissemination by the end of the grant period?
Goals: What are you trying to accomplish during the period of the grant? If these goals relate to a
larger project or scholarly/creative program, explain. Potential venues for dissemination of results
should be included in this section.
Methods or Procedures for Meeting Your Goals: What will you do during the grant period? What
methods or procedures do you propose to use in order to meet your goals? What professional
training and experience do you bring to bear on this project in order to meet your goals? What
steps have been taken to ensure that the student will be capable of executing the proposed method
or procedures?
Scholarly or Creative Context for Your Project: How does what you are doing fit into what has
been done by others? For a scholarly proposal, this section would probably be a review of the
literature. For creative work, develop an argument that gives context to the proposed project. You
may include a discussion of artistic or literary influences, the theoretical or cultural tradition in
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which you are working, as well as how the completed work might appear publicly, in terms of
exhibitions, performances, or publication.
Note: You may include statements referencing an appendix, but the project description should be
clear to the reader without the appended material.
2. Budget justification and explanation (Required) - The proposed budget should be specific about
travel expenses, supplies, and other costs as specified on the Budget Page. Budget submissions for
all proposals should note previous or concurrent efforts at obtaining other potential funding,
including funding by deans and departments, UUP, Auxiliary Services and other internal or
external sources. Clear evidence of support for students must be included in this section.
3. Resume (Required) – Faculty collaborators must submit a two-page resume highlighting
relevant research or creative activity. Student collaborators should submit a brief resume
describing their qualifications for the project including relevant coursework and/or previous
experience with independent study or internship experience in their area.
4. Appendix (Not required) - If an appendix is included, it must be kept very brief and used only to
support the description of your project. You may include correspondence that supports the plans
you described above; research instruments to which you have referred; copies of contacts with
travel agents that support your budget. Do not include academic papers, etc., and do not assume
that any single inclusion with more than one or two pages will be read.
5. Previous Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Award report (Required if applicable) – If
you have received funding under the Challenge Award program in the past, you must include the
final report of the most recent project.
If you receive an award, the final report will be due in the Provost’s office by e-mail to Michael
Ameigh at Michael.ameigh@oswego.edu by February 1, 2012. This office will forward a copy of
your report to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, the Chair of the SCAC, your dean’s
office, and your department chair. Your report must document how you have/will disseminate your
results.
Note: Your submission of a grant proposal implies your consent for inclusion of the proposal, if
accepted, on the SCAC website (http://www.oswego.edu/scac) for benefit of applicants preparing
future Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants. This is a secure site with access limited to
Oswego Rocky account holders.
Proposal Checklist
1. Cover/Routing sheet
2. Description of your project
 Nature of faculty/student collaboration
 Current status of project development
 Goals
 Methods and procedures
 Scholarly context
3. Budget justification and explanation
4. Budget sheet
5. Faculty Resume (a two-page resume highlighting relevant research)
6. Student Resume (highlighting relevant in and out-of classroom experiences)
7. Appendix (Optional)
8. Previous Collaborative Challenge Grant report (when applicable)
9. Electronic copy to ameigh@oswego.edu
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Student Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants Budget Sheet
Applicant(s): _______________________________________________________________
Department(s): ______________________________________________________________
Salaries
Stipends ($/hr × # of hrs)
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Secretarial
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Professional assistance
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SUBTOTAL SALARY
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Supplies and Equipment
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Travel for Proposed Activity
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Page Costs (for publication)
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Telephone
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Postage
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Photocopying
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Other (specify)
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TOTAL FUNDS REQUESTED (limit: $3,000)
Other funding sources for this project:
Investigated funding, found to be ineligible
Applied for funding, application rejected
Applied for funding, application being reviewed
Applied for funding, receipt of monies pending
On Campus
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Off Campus
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Funding received from ________________________________________________________
in the amount of __________.
Would you be interested in talking to a representative of Office of Research and Sponsored
Programs to explore other possibilities of funding? _______ Yes
_______ No
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EVALUATION SHEET (for review committee’s use only)
SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY GRANTS
Investigator(s): ________________________________________________________________
Department:_________________________
Project Title:
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Eligibility will be checked by the Assistant Provost or a designated member of SCAC:
Is this applicant an eligible applicant? Was the finalized proposal submitted via e-mail on time? Does
the proposal describe a SCA project? Are the previous grant report and the applicant’s CV included?
Did the routing sheet with all required signatures arrive by the designated deadline? Is the student’s
statement included (or is this proposal written by a student)?
New Faculty
_____ Experienced Faculty _______ Budget Requested: $ __________
Questionable budget items (if any):
Please review the following dimensions listed in the instructions to evaluate each application.
 General considerations
 Nature of faculty/student collaboration
 Current status of project development
 Goals
 Methods and procedures
 Scholarly context
 Budget
Please adjust your rankings according to the following guidelines after reading all proposals.
 A ranking score of 5 (outstanding) means you consider this proposal in the top tier of all proposals, and
it should be definitely funded.
 A score of 4 (good) means that you recommend this proposal for the second tier of proposals.
 A score of 3 (acceptable) indicates that you are neutral about the proposal, that it belongs to the third
tier and is generally acceptable for funding.
 A score of 2 (below average) indicates your inclination of possibly not funding the proposal.
 A score of 1 (unacceptable) means that you do not think that this proposal should be funded.
Ranking: _____/ 5 (please provide an integer ranking score with 5 being the best and 1 being the worst)
List/discuss the proposal’s strengths (use other side of sheet if necessary):
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List/discuss the proposal’s weaknesses (use other side of sheet if necessary):
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