Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Programs

Special Funds

Processes by which to apply

The College has received a gift to enhance programming, curriculum, faculty development, and the student experience in the Humanities and Arts. These areas transcend particular departmental homes, and as such the fund is managed by the office of the Provost and Dean of the College and administered by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship. The process by which to apply for such funding isn’t onerous – and is detailed below.

The Griffith Fund for Humanistic Teaching and Inquiry supports faculty and staff doing teaching, research, scholarship and creative work within the humanities broadly understood, or using humanistic methods. Currently, the fund is able to support around $20,000 per year, for initiatives that include: course development, redesign, and overhaul to reflect emerging and innovative humanities education, and the development of interdisciplinary and team taught courses engaging humanities faculty and humanistic inquiry, as well as domestic travel seminars related to humanistic inquiry; transportation costs to museums, cultural sites, field experiences to bring our students to locations necessary for their course work and learning; honoraria to support guests and experts who zoom into humanities classes, to support guest artists and collaborators, to bring films to class and campus, and innovative community-based pedagogical and research activity in the humanities.  The fund could also support student travel to conferences in their disciplines and fields, and faculty writing projects in their final stages, through funding for book workshops or writing retreats.

To apply to access either of these funding sources, please send an email to CTLS@dickinson.edu   copying kozimorm@dickinson.edu, with a single document that briefly (300 – 500 words) details:

1. Summary of the proposed initiative. Include the funding need, initiative goals or learning outcomes, and programmatic, pedagogical, student support, or faculty support proposed;
2. The ways that the proposed project fits the remit of the fund and the anticipated impact of the initiative;
3. A budget and timeline.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis; funding will be prioritized by the breadth of the campus community the project will reach, and the ways that the funding is consonant with the intent of the gifts.