Special Spring 2020 Call for Proposals

Due May 15, 2020

While we know that your summer plans may still be in flux, we’d like to alert you to a newPublic Works: Arts and Humanities Connecting Communities Call for Proposals targeted at projects for summer 2020.  The deadline is May 15, 2020. 

As we close out Year 3 of the four-year initiative, Public Works is right on target in our spending.  However, we have some categories that can best be spent over the summer, in particular student break work and faculty development funds.  During the pandemic, we know that many of you are facing unexpected challenges to your research and teaching plans.  Many of our students are also struggling to find employment for the summer months.  Public Works would like to offer help in funding your work that engages the community or reflects on how digital technology can best serve diverse publics.  With this in mind, we offer this additional opportunity to apply for Public Works support for work that can be done remotely with Student Research Partners. Please review the proposal checklist before submitting your proposal.

Fall 2020 Call for Proposals

The next round of proposals will be due September 11, 2020. Please review the proposal checklist before submitting your proposal.

These grants will support teaching and scholarship projects for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year, Winter Break 2020, and ongoing initiatives.

Explore the four different types of grants the Public Works project awards: 

Community Partnership Grants

To extend and deepen existing community partnerships, and develop new partnerships

  • Innovation grants to support faculty work with partners during summer and winter breaks
  • Travel support for faculty, staff, and students to travel to partners’ home locations, or to bring members of partner organizations to Carleton for meetings, workshops, etc.
  • Reading groups and external consultants
  • Workshops to engage partners or other experts and to co-learn with them

Grants to Develop Expertise or Enhance Campus Experiences

To develop faculty expertise and equip students with the foundational skills needed to communicate and collaborate with diverse publics.

  • Curriculum innovation grants to develop new courses and course modules for public projects, especially in our first-year Argument and Inquiry seminars and introductory classes, or to work with an arts or humanities residency.
  • Workshops to develop faculty expertise
    • in techniques of digital humanities and arts
    • in skills, including project management skills, for public scholarship and arts
    • in pedagogical approaches for incorporating public scholarship and digital scholarship at the introductory as well as more advanced levels
    • in developing pedagogies and frameworks for teaching students necessary skills for this work.
  • Arts and humanities residencies closely connected to the curriculum, offering faculty and students opportunities to work with artists and scholars whose efforts directly engage diverse publics and who will co-create work with community partners, students, and faculty on campus.

Curriculum and Co-curricular Development Grants

To build integrated curricular and co-curricular opportunities for students in their work related to public arts and humanities projects.

  • Curriculum innovation grants to support the creation of:
    • linked courses
    • development of integrated modules that can be embedded in introductory and more advanced courses, and
    • labs or course-trailers to enable focused work on projects through several different courses.
  • Support for faculty-student research teams to undertake intensive work with partners during the summer or winter breaks. Support may include funding for faculty travel and technical support.
  • Workshops and teaching circles for faculty and staff to foster curricular connections and co-curricular collaborations, including 1) Shared class visits and co-teaching opportunities; 2) Workshops working towards the development of new minors related to digital or public humanities and arts; 3) new integrative senior capstone projects; 4) enhanced co-curricular experiences; 5) strategies (such as e-portfolios) that help students integrate experiences.

Ethical Reflection Grants

To ensure that student experiences with public humanities and arts projects generate genuine metacognition and deepen ethical inquiry and reflection about difference and inclusion.

  • Reading groups, learning communities, and seminars for faculty and staff focused on reflective practices in the classroom, inclusive pedagogies, and the ethics of digital scholarship and civic engagement.
  • Curriculum innovation grants to develop activities and assignments in courses that promote deep reflection and student learning about difference, especially grants to encourage the creation of new courses that take up questions of civil discourse especially, but not only, in digital environments and the ethics of public work.