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Guidelines for FORD/KNIGHT PROPOSALS
Academic Year 2009-2010
Collaboration is the key to much of the research
and scholarly activity at Earlham. Each year members of the Earlham
teaching faculty apply for Ford/Knight (F/K) grants to support
student/faculty collaborative research teams. Projects approved
for 2008-09 were Marc Benamou's "Classical Music and
Ethnic Identity in Detroit" and Michael Birkel's "Contemporary
Interpretations of the Quaran."
Examples of other recent F/K projects span
the disciplines: "Old World Klezmer Music," "(Re)Creating
French-and German-Speaking Characters for Conner Prairie," "Writing
Physlets for the Web," "High Field Variable Temperature
NMR Studies of Aluminum Halide Complexes with Cyclic Ethers," "Postmodernism
and Ecology," "Fen-phen-omenal: Heart Disease Research,"
"Greening Earlham," "The Loss of Hegemony: The NAACP
in the 1950s and 1960s," "Determination of Pesticide Contamination
in Local Ground and Surface Water," "Architecture and Literature,"
"Community Economic Development Studies," "Translating the French
Caribbean: Politics and Practice," "Quakers and the Anti-Slavery
Movement," "The Gurney Girls of Earlham Hall," and "Muslims
and Christians."
If you are interested in applying for a F/K project,
there are two deadlines to observe:
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008: for submitting
a
preliminary statement. The committee needs approximately
two paragraphs describing your project (topic, projected research
and outcomes, plans for sharing your research with the Earlham
community) AND a close estimate of dollar costs.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008: for submitting
the
final proposal. The final statement for a Ford/Knight
project should include the following components, in this order:
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Title of the project.
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What is the research to be conducted? Please
describe your work in no more than 2 paragraphs. Note that
items #1 and 2 will be included in the annual report describing
F/K projects to the Board of Trustees, and will be posted
on the F/K web page.
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How will the work be collaborative?
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What academic preparation should students
have?
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How many students will be involved? Four
students is the norm, but past projects have had as few
as three and as many as eight students.
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What is the schedule for the project? Please
indicate
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during which semester the project will
occur, and
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how the work will be accomplished during
a semester, and perhaps how time before and/or after
the research term is to be used.
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How will your released time be provided?
If you are to be replaced, how will this be arranged?
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What is the budget for the entire project?
Please include the costs of ANY faculty released time as
$7,000 (even if your replacement may earn less). Most project
totals fall within the $500 to $7,500-$9,000 range, INCLUDING
the cost of faculty replacement. Note: the F/K Fund can
no longer cover the costs of students' books and of extensive
group travel.
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How will the work be evaluated?
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How will the project impact your teaching
generally?
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What are your plans for sharing your research
results with the Earlham community? Exhibits, departmental
colloquia and readers' theater performances are just a few
of the vehicles used in the past.
All committee decisions are final.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate
to contact any member of the Ford/Knight Committee: Kari
Kalve,
ext. 1508;
Tom Kirk,
ext. 1360; Patty
Lamson,
ext. 1424; Alice
Shrock,
966-5855 (convener).
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