Eligible Expenses
Faculty Stipends:
Faculty stipends are paid for summer student-faculty research (SFR), scholarly and creative projects at a rate of $500/week for a maximum of eight weeks. It is expected that faculty will meet with and work with their student co-investigator/co-creator for a significant number of hours each week of the project. Stipends cannot be collected from two sources for the same time period or project. Stipends of $1,000 are paid for participants in the Valley & Ridge (equivalent to about $250/day).
Stipends generally are not paid for curriculum development projects during the academic year. Stipends will be considered for summer course development projects that go well above and beyond normal academic/professional expectations. In such cases, stipends for teaching projects are paid at a rate of $250/week for a maximum of three weeks.
Student Stipends:
Stipends are paid to students for summer student-faculty research, scholarly and creative projects and for summer research assistantships at a rate of $450/week for a maximum of 8 weeks.
For research assistantships during the academic year, students are compensated up to $10.00/hour for a maximum of 8 hours per week for 28 weeks.
Student Housing:
For on-campus summer projects, students are provided campus housing and pay the daily rate provided through Dickinson Residence Life and Housing. This fee should be built into grant applications. For off-campus projects, support for costs of on-site housing that is equivalent to campus housing can be requested.
Books & Videos:
Purchase of books and videos generally are not eligible and should be acquired through the library. Exceptions can be considered for special cases in which acquisition by the library is not possible or would not adequately meet the needs of the project (e.g., specific sustainability course-development needs or multiple copies of reading materials for a study group). Any books, videos or instructional resources purchased with CSE funds shall be available to other members of the Dickinson community and cannot be added to the private collections of award recipients. These will be added to the inventory of the CSE resource library and can be stored here or in any other shared resource space on campus.
Equipment:
Any equipment purchased with CSE funds shall be available to other members of the Dickinson community and cannot be added to the private collections of award recipients. Community materials and equipment (e.g., cameras, GPS units, compasses, etc.) will be added to a shared resource inventory for loan to other faculty once the project is completed. These materials and equipment are to be housed and maintained by grant applicant, but must become a shared resource of the college. Equipment purchases over $2,000 are not permitted.
Conferences:
For support of travel to attend a conference, application should first be made to R&D if presenting a paper or to the Dean’s conference fund if not; CSE will consider supporting reasonable costs that exceed awards from R&D and the Dean’s conference fund if the conference is integral to a sustainability or climate change related teaching, professional development or research project. Priority will be given for conferences that are not the main disciplinary conference that the applicant would normally be expected to attend.
Field Trips:
The cost of field trips for students in a course is generally the responsibility of the department in which the course is taught. Exceptions will be considered when an innovative pedagogy is being introduced to a course for the first time and the department indicates that, if the innovation is effective, the department will budget for the cost of field trips for future offerings of the course.
Community Support:
Projects that connect Dickinson courses to community (local and global) partners are encouraged and supported. Donations to community partners are eligible expenses for those that support Dickinson service-learning or communicaty based research projects or courses.
Reasonable Expenses:
The Sustainability Education Fund hopes to support as many projects as possible, and expects that its awardees will ensure that expenses incurred are reasonable, allowable and allocable. Approved budgets which are part of the application and should be followed throughout the commitment to help both the faculty member and the committee with resource planning. Any changes expenses greater than 10% from what was expected should be reviewed by the committee.
For assistance with CSE Project Budgets, or stipend inquiries, please contact Lindsey Lyons at lyonsli@dickinson.edu.