Boulder campus faculty are invited to submit proposals for 2015-2016 outreach and engagement funds to be awarded by the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee in June 2015. Proposed outreach projects should extend faculty members’ research, teaching, and creative work.
Individual faculty applicants may request up to $8,000 for each project; interdisciplinary or interdepartmental faculty groups may request up to $24,000 for a single, collaborative outreach project.
New this year, the Office for Outreach and Engagement and CU Engage are collaborating to offer the inaugural Integrated Community-based Award. This special award supports faculty and their graduate students who are engaged in community-based research through mutually beneficial university-community partnerships. Available funding mirrors individual and interdisciplinary/interdepartmental group awards plus additional funding for one graduate fellow.
The 2015-2016 proposal guidelines for individual, group, and integrated awards can be found at http://outreachawards.colorado.edu/, where you will also find information about additional outreach and engagement funding opportunities including the new Graduate Fellowship in Community-based Research, created by CU Engage to train a generation of scholars in the practices and principles of community-based research.
All proposals and applications must be submitted by Monday, April 20, 2015. The online submission forms will be available the week of April 6. Please review the guidelines in advance of your submission, and send any questions via email to outreach@colorado.edu.
The CU-Boulder Outreach Committee, comprised of faculty and community members from many disciplines, oversees the award process. Last year, the committee awarded funds to 35 individual and interdisciplinary outreach and engagement projects that served communities, K-12 constituents, and citizens with limited access to university programs.
Since 1999, the committee has supported more than 600 faculty projects. These awards are made possible through contributions made by the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost, and the Division of Continuing Education.
Outreach and engagement is defined as the ways faculty, staff, and students collaborate with external groups in mutually beneficial partnerships that are grounded in scholarship and consistent with our role and mission as a comprehensive, public research university. Applicants are encouraged to review the campus definition of outreach and engagement before applying.
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