Call for Proposals
The FaCE Project invites competitive proposals from faculty at ACM colleges for funding research and activities in two areas:
In some cases, FaCE Grants can be used to partially cover the cost of attending non-consortial meetings and workshops.
Goals of FaCE Phase II
The primary goal of Phase II of the FaCE project is to foster and enhance the rich collaboration within the ACM, and by doing so, foster collaboration more broadly within higher education by disseminating models and practices discerned through careful evaluation.
As Phase I of the FaCE Project and other ACM projects have demonstrated, ACM colleges have a productive history of consortial collaboration, making them particularly well suited to develop cross-institutional models of collaboration. By developing networks and tools that support collaboration, by carefully evaluating results, and by promulgating findings and best practices resulting from the projects, the ACM can meet the Mellon Foundation's challenge to sustain faculty development opportunities provided by the FaCE grant beyond the period of funding.
Key questions for proposals include:
- How can liberal arts colleges enhance faculty careers in ways that best strengthen the colleges and the liberal arts sector in which faculty live and work?
- How can we as a consortium sponsor collaborative work that highlights our core mission and makes an impact on teaching and learning throughout post-secondary education?
- How can we work together to promote and demonstrate effective and innovative teaching practices?
Deadlines for Proposals
Phase II of the FaCE Project provides funding for proposals in two cycles (spring and fall) per year.
Guidelines for Proposals
The first round of funding for FaCE Phase II has shown that collaborative research is challenging; it requires methods for researchers to find collaborators and to move from traditionally independent forms of work.
The three Guideline webpages linked below provide suggestions and examples to stimulate thinking about research collaborations. ACM is also interested in helping colleagues find research partners and will happily function in a “match-making” role. The ACM website will soon have means for doing this work, but we can also provide this service via e-mail and other contacts.
For questions, please contact ACM Vice President John Ottenhoff.