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Proposals accepted on a rolling basis.
The Baker-Nord Center is pleased to announce a new program designed to facilitate collaborations involving humanities faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and their colleagues in other schools and beyond the university community. The center will help create, host, and maintain wiki-based virtual workshops, called "wikshops," for working groups to collaborate and converse from a distance. The center also will provided each workshop with a single grant of up to $1,000 to help cover travel costs in order to host a supplemental face-to-face meeting of the group members. Funding is available for as many as eight wikshops. The applicant must be a member of an arts or humanities department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case.
Applications will be considered beginning in October 2006. Evalaution of applications will continue until eight wikshops have been approved to begin in the 2006-07 academic year.
Application Cover Sheet & Eligibility Requirements
Academic year 2006-2007
Due Date: proposals accepted on a rolling basis beginning October 2006, up to 8 wikshops will be awarded.
Eligibility Requirements: The wikshop is to be utilized by working groups that need to collaborate and converse from a distance. The working group must contain at least one member of a department of arts or humanities at Case Western Reserve University. This department member will be the primary contact/liaison with the university computer technology staff and must be willing to work cooperatively with the staff. The working group must be constituted for a specific or ongoing project with projected goals/outcomes as indicated below. It is expected that the Wiki will demonstrate an active engagement with collaborative participation by all group members.
Each proposal must include the following:
- · Application cover sheet, including title of project
and names/affiliations of all participants
- · Project proposal (to be no more than 3 pages, typed,
single-spaced, 1" margins). This proposal should include
the following:
- · Description of the Scope and Contribution
of the Project
- · Description of how the Wiki will be utilized
and contributes to the project in unique ways
- · Other potential technology needs
- · Projected outcomes
- · Work Calendar, including the projected scheduling of
the face-to-face meetings within the 2006-7 academic
year (1 page)
- · Budget (for a single grant of up to $1,000 to help cover
travels costs in order to host a supplemental face-to-face
meeting of the group members)
- · Group Members. Each group member must have agreed to participate in the Wikshop prior to submission of the proposal. Each participant should be represented by either a 1 page c.v. or 1 paragraph biography.
- Final Report: At the conclusion of the project, the Case faculty host is to submit a brief report on the project to the Baker-Nord Center Director.
Applications may be submitted electronically. All materials must be assembled into one electronic document, organized in the manner outlined above. Address: bakernord@case.edu
Or mailed to:
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
Senior Faculty Fellowships
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7120
Campus deliveries to:
Clark Hall Room 101, Loc. Code 7120
For more information, contact:
Timothy K. Beal, Director
Anne Helmreich, Associate Director
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