Graduate Faculty
Inquiry and Action Fellowship
Graduate School
Integrating Inquiry and Action Fellowships
Fellowship Application (PDF, 15KB)
The Graduate School seeks to assist the campus community in further defining and clarifying our horizontal distinctiveness theme—Integrating Inquiry and Action.
To that end, the Graduate School will support and fund up to four projects—ideally one from each academic school—each of whose purpose is to clarify and illustrate this theme in a specific discipline.
Applications must refer specifically to the campus document and must explain the ways in which the project connects to all aspects of the theme. (It can be found at http://www.buffalostate.edu/strategicplanning/pdf/concept.pdf ). The project must also help illustrate how this theme can be defined in a discipline. The application, then, must reveal how the project integrates inquiry and action, and it must detail the ways in which both inquiry and action are defined and illustrated in the project.
Only full-time tenure-track faculty members can apply. Preference will be given to proposals that 1) have potential for refereed publication or presentation, 2) apply to both undergraduate and graduate students, and 3) come from faculty members with Graduate Faculty Status.
Funding will be provided for up to $2300. Requests can be made for equipment, student assistants, release time or other needs associated with successful completion of the project. Support from department chair and dean is necessary if requesting release time. All projects funded will have to be made public to the campus community in some way—publication, demonstration, presentation, and/or web-site.
Applications submitted by December 1, 2008 will be reviewed first.
For further clarification or discussion, contact Kevin Railey, Associate Provost and Dean, The Graduate School.