COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
PLACE PROGRAM
PARTNERSHIP LEARNING THROUGH ART, CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
2007/2008
PLACE TEACHING GRANT:
INTEGRATING SERVICE-LEARNING INTO EXISTING COURSES
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
DUE: APRIL 20TH - 3 P.M.
GRANT TIMELINE & PROJECT CYCLE:
* CALL: Posted to CFA Listserve Tue., March 20, 2007
* PROPOSALS DUE – Friday, April 20th by 3:00pm Dean’s Office
* NOTIFICATION - Applicants will be contacted by Fri., May 4, 2007
* ORIENTATION – Fri., May 18th, 2007 / 9:00-1:00
* IMPLEMENTATION – As early as ’07 Intersession – completed by June 15, 2008
* PRESENTING – Spring ’08 CFA Creative Colloquium
* FINAL REPORT - June 15th, 2008
MAKING WAVES – GRANT GUIDELINES
Five (5) grants of $1,250 will be awarded. Funds can be used for courses starting as early as the upcoming ’07 Intersession, ’07 Summer Sessions, but must be completed by June 15th, 2008.
TEACHING GRANT EXPECTATIONS:
1. Attend a four hour orientation (Fri., 05/18/07) on course development and community engagement strategies.
2. Modify an existing course to adapt a framework for service-learning instruction, community arts method of practice, or develop a learning vehicle for arts entrepreneurship;
3. Modify the syllabus to integrate service-learning, experiential service, community arts practice, arts enterprise component into the structure of the course.
4. Provide a budget outline showing the following areas of expenses:
*Supplies & Services: Any or all of the funds may be transferred to a departmental account for supplies and services necessary for the implementation of the service-learning course with a record of expenses attached to the final report.
*Partnership Building: Up to 50% of funds can be used to sponsor participation from an underserved community group in order to implement service learning activities with the community partner (e.g. bus transportation for community site activity, snacks for after-school activity with youth group, tickets for shared attendance to a performance, joint sharing of a visiting artist, etc.).
5. Gather information for documentation. This will include the number of students enrolled in the course; description of teaching methodology/approach; description of student and community engagment activity; the name, number and type of agencies served; an anecdotal capture of community impact (e.g. comments, journals, video clips, interviews, website visits, etc);
6. Present an overview of your course to other faculty at the ’08 CFA Creative Colloquium--tentatively scheduled for April/May 2008.
7. Complete the final report (e.g. summary narrative of community project, teaching experience and selection of student reflection (by permission) and digital record of highlights from community arts event by June 15, 2008.
GRANT SELECTION:
Proposals will be reviewed by Stephanie Padilla, CFA Grant Coordinator; Dan Young, Driector of UNM Service Research; a community members from an arts organization (TBA). Ramsey Lofton, CFA Community Education Supervisor, will be a non-voting advisor to the review panel. Proposals will be scored accordingly:
I. Quality: To what degree is community integrated into the course as “engaged participants” and/or providing “reciprocal exchange”, not as subjects of study or audience passively witnessing (60 points)
II. Innovation and Replicability: The design of curriculum advances the knowledge of how community arts practice can be integrated into teaching and offers one or more replicable components. (20 points)
III. Sustainability: Intention to continue the course with community arts practice integrated into the curriculum. (20 points)
Preference will be given to those applicants who have not previously received a PLACE faculty teaching grant for course development. But returning applicants are encouraged to apply.
HELPFUL RESOURCES:
• Sample CFA FAculty Teaching Grants are available in the FA Library and department offices.
• Definition for community arts, service learning, arts enterprise – click here
• Examples of community arts projects – click here
AWARD NOTIFICATION:
Successful applicants will be notified by May 4th, 2007.
For further questions contact:
Ramsey Lofton - Community Education Supervisor
PLACE Program
Partnerhship Learning through Art, Culture, & the Environment
College of Fine Arts - University of New Mexico
Tel: 277-6574 / Email: place@unm.edu
