FACULTY FELLOWS PROGRAM
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UPDATED 4/10/2020
2020–2021 Application Timeline
- Letter of Intent due on Friday, March 20, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Full Proposals due on Monday, May 11, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Applicants notified on Friday, June 19, 2020
- Fellowship begins on Wednesday, July 1, 2020
- Fellowship ends on Monday, May 31, 2021
The Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellows program is a year-long learning community experience designed in the tenets of Boyer’s (1996) vision of the scholarship of engagement. Selected individuals will serve a one-year term as part of a cohort with other engaged scholars from Indiana Campus Compact partner campuses. Each year, the cadre of selected scholars will work collaboratively on a scholarly project that will seek to advance the understanding and practice of the field of community engagement through the collaborative engagement research paradigm (Jacquez, Ward, & Goguen, 2016), while individually incorporating community engagement into the three components of faculty work: teaching, research, and service.
- Project Duration: Yearly from July 1st through May 31st during the 2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021, and 2021 – 2022 academic years.
- Funding Amount: $3,800 grant award; $1,520 minimum institutional cash match
- Eligibility: Full-time faculty member from any discipline at any Indiana Campus Compact partner campus
- 2020 – 2021 Application Timeline:
Letter of Intent deadline extended to Friday, March 20, 2020. The deadline for full proposals is extended to Monday, May 11, 2020.
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RESEARCH WITH AND ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANT
The Indiana Campus Compact Research With and About Community Engagement funding opportunity will support original research aimed at empirically exploring community engagement initiatives and organizational change at institutions of higher education in Indiana or the effect community engagement has on students’ success during or after college.
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Funded research will support Indiana Campus Compact’s goal to “increase rigorous and deep assessment…of community engagement’s collective impact on the challenges facing Indiana” and beyond. This funding opportunity seeks to connect community-engaged scholars (both within higher education and community organizations) with individuals from institutional research or effectiveness offices as a means of supporting their research efforts.
The overall goals of the program include:
- Increase the number of original research documenting the collective impact of community engagement practices on the challenges facing Indiana.
- Increase the number of published research outputs—traditional and non-traditional—that document research on community-engaged and/or community-based teaching and learning practices and their connection to institutional change and/or student success.
- Strengthen partnerships between community-engaged scholars (both within higher education and community organizations) and institutional research and effectiveness professionals aimed at increasing research about institutional community engagement practices.
The Research With and About Community Engagement grant seeks to fund two types of research projects:
- Original research that is in partnership with community organizations or community members and is focused on topics, issues, or questions that arise from the community (partnering organization or community at large) and because the community has determined it is important, relevant, or timely.
- Original research that is about the impact of community engagement on organization change at the institution—both higher education and/or community organization institutions—and the impact this has on the institution’s stakeholders.
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The Research With and About Community Engagement grant requires a Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigator. Below is a list of eligible applicants.
The following individuals at Indiana Campus Compact partner institutions are eligible to serve as either a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator:
- Senior administrator with responsibilities in overseeing university-wide community engagement initiatives
- Faculty from any discipline and any rank (e.g., pre-tenure, post-tenure, non-tenure, instructor of practice), and employed at the institution a minimum of 50% FTE
- Community engagement professional (e.g., student affairs staff, academic affairs staff) who is employed at the institution a minimum of 50% FTE
- Institutional research and effectiveness professional who is employed at the institution a minimum of 50% FTE
- Doctoral student (full- or part-time) from any discipline looking to support their dissertation research
The following individuals are eligible to serve only as Co-Principal Investigators:
- Representatives from a community partner organization(s) (or community members) who play a critical role in the development and implementation of the research project
- Faculty from any discipline, and of any rank who are employed at the institution less than 50% FTE
- Graduate student (full- or part-time) from any discipline
Indiana Campus Compact has the funding to support six Research With and About Community Engagement proposals. Awards are in the amount of $5,000 and require a $1,500 institutional cash match.
Applications will be accepted through the Indiana Campus Compact Engagement Portal starting May 12, 2020.
Interested applicants are able to submit full proposals for the following application deadlines: June 15, 2020; August 10, 2020; November 9, 2020; and February 8, 2021. Funded research projects can begin seven weeks after the application is submitted and funding is available through May 31, 2022.
Please contact Laura Weaver, Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning, at 317-274-6504 or laura {at} incampuscompact(.)org for more information about this upcoming opportunity.

HIGH-IMPACT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PRACTICES GRANT
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UPDATED 4/10/2020
Additional application deadline added.
- Additional application deadline on Monday, June 15, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Applicants notified on Friday, July 24, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Projects can begin on or after Monday, August 3, 2020
The Indiana Campus Compact High-Impact Community Engagement Practices funding opportunity will support the development and implementation of a high-impact community engagement learning practice (Hoy & Johnson, 2013). These types of activities can include both curricular (first-year seminars, capstone courses, global learning, internships, service-learning courses, undergraduate research course, and writing-intensive courses) and co-curricular (common intellectual experiences, learning communities) experiences (Longo & Gibson, 2016) that also incorporate an intentional emphasis on community-engagement practices—e.g., place, humility, integration, depth, development, reflection, teams, capacity building, impact orientation, evidence, learning, mentors, and sequence (Hoy & Johnson, 2013). Funded projects will support strong reciprocal community-campus partnerships that strengthen student learning, and further support a culture of community engagement within the institution.
- Project Duration: 6- to 12-months in length as determined by the Project Director(s) during the 3-year funding cycle from July 1, 2019, through May 31, 2022.
- Funding Amount: up to $2,500 grant award; $750 minimum institutional cash match required (or a minimum of 30% of the grant award amount)
- Eligibility: Faculty from any discipline and of any rank, community engagement professional(s), and/or graduate students (full- or part-time) from any discipline at any Indiana Campus Compact partner campus
- Application Timeline: Proposals are accepted once per quarter (in May, August, November, and February) on the second Monday of the month. Projects must start at least seven weeks after the application due date, as indicated below. All projects must be completed no later than Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Download the full Request for Proposal for the full application timeline.
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STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES GRANT
Download the Strengthening Communities Request for Proposals
UPDATED 4/10/2020
Additional application deadline added.
- Additional application deadline on Monday, June 15, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Applicants notified on Friday, July 24, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Projects can begin on or after Monday, August 3, 2020
The Indiana Campus Compact Strengthening Communities grant supports a wide range of community engagement experiences from episodic place-based projects to regional Indiana-based plunge experiences, to short-term on-going co-curricular community engagement activities, to training and advocacy initiatives addressing systemic community issues. Projects are to be designed in such a way that participants are able to further develop a deeper understanding of civic learning and democratic engagement, including the skills and concepts necessary to implement such activities and develop into future civic leaders and civic-minded professionals. Additionally, projects should seek to further the development of high-quality community-campus partnerships where all partners are able to transcend self-interest as a means of seeking mutual benefit and embracing, what Enos and Morton (2003) describe as a “larger definition of community” (p. 25).
- Project Duration: 2- to 9-months in length as determined by the Project Director(s) during the 3-year funding cycle from July 1, 2019, through May 31, 2022.
- Funding Amount: up to $1,200 grant award; $360 minimum institutional cash match required (or a minimum of 30% of the grant award amount)
- Eligibility: Faculty from any discipline and of any rank, community engagement professional(s), and/or undergraduate* or graduate students (full- or part-time) from any discipline, at any Indiana Campus Compact partner campus.
*Undergraduate student applicants are required to have a faculty, community engagement professional, or graduate student co-project director to serve in a support role.
- Application Timeline: Proposals are accepted once per quarter (in May, August, November, and February) on the second Monday of the month. Projects must start at least seven weeks after the application due date, as indicated below. All projects must be completed by Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Download the full Request for Proposal for the full application timeline.
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Electoral Engagement Grant
Indiana Campus Compact, in partnership with the Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP), is supporting institutions of higher education throughout Indiana to engage students in the 2020 election through the Election Engagement Fellowship. The Fellowship is designed to assist campuses as they inform and promote student voter participation, develop new and innovative programming, and encourage further student involvement in, and with, their communities to create meaningful relationships that move beyond the election cycle.
Election engagement work will be led by an Election Engagement Fellow, supported by a campus faculty or staff Election Engagement Advisor and Indiana Campus Compact staff. The Election Engagement Fellow will lead their campus in voter registration and education activities, and related voter engaged activities.
Indiana Campus Compact has the funding to support 10 Electoral Engagement projects. Awards are in the amount of $1,500, with $1,000 being directed to the support of the Student Election Engagement Fellow, and $500 to support election engagement activities. Institutions are required to provide $150 in cash match funds. The full request for proposals will be released the week of April 20, 2020. Full proposals are due on July 6, 2020. Projects will run from August 3 through November 13, 2020.
Full proposals are due on Monday, June 15, 2020. Deadline extended to July 6th!
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