CWE Department, Faculty, and Travel Grants

Department Development Grants

The Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence is offering two grants of $5000 apiece for high-impact projects that will help students write better and learn more through writing.

Possible projects include the following:

• Incorporating more effective writing assignments throughout a department’s curriculum
• Developing writing assignments and activities for a Top 25 course
• Coordinating the writing assignments in a Miami Plan thematic sequence
• Creating writing projects that develop critical thinking skills
• Designing writing assignments that position students as scholars in a Miami Plan foundation course
• Developing writing activities that increase active learning in a lecture course
• Devising writing assignments that can also be used in a department’s assessment plan

You are invited to read successful proposals from past years by the Management Information Systems, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, and Music departments.

Previous Recipients

Comparative Religion Department

Gerontology Master’s Program

Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Reading, Teacher Education Department

German, Russian, and East Asian Languages Department

Management Information Systems Program

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Department

Studio Programs, Music Department

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 25

Faculty Grants

The Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence is offering grants of $2000 each for individual or collaborative projects focused on student writing, its teaching, and its use as a tool for learning course content. The grants may be used for research projects or development of improved teaching methods. They may be used during summer 2008, the 2008-2009 academic year, or both.

Past Projects

Previous recipients have used their faculty grants to do such things as the following:

• Design writing activities to increase the knowledge students gain of other cultures while in international study programs
• Create writing assignments that achieve Miami Plan goals in a concrete, assessable way in the World Cultures Thematic Sequence
• Use a variety of writing resources and techniques to support and assess student learning of organic chemistry concepts and procedures
• Develop a videogame that helps students learn how to write persuasive and logical arguments

Past Recipients

Terri Feldman Barr, Marketing John Benamati, Management Information Systems Stacy Brinkman, University Libraries Brenda Dales, Teacher Education Yu-Fang Cho, English John Cinnamon, Anthropology-Hamilton Bill DeGenaro, English-Hamilton Michele Dickey, Educational Psychology Dianne Fellows, Architecture and Interior Design

James Hershberger, Chemistry and Biochemistry Kathleen Hutchinson, Speech Pathology and Audiology Ben Jacks, Architecture and Interior Design Alice Kahn, Speech Pathology and Audiology Michael Novak, Chemistry and Biochemistry Richard Taylor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Harvey Thurmer, Music Roscoe Wilson, Art-Hamilton

Proposal Guidelines Step 1. Arrange a required preproposal meeting with Howe Center Director, Paul Anderson (9-6100, Paul.Anderson@muohio.edu). Step 2. Prepare a proposal for a Department Development Grant (3 to 5 pages) or Faculty Grant (2 to 4 pages). Sample proposals may be viewed at www.muohio.edu/Howe. Include the following items. Potential impact (need, benefits for students, number of students benefited) Project objectives Project Plan (including plans for working with the Center’s staff) Assessment strategy Team members Schedule Budget Commitment to writing a report and making a presentation to the university community Signature of department chair APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 25

Faculty Travel Scholarships to Present Papers on Student Writing

The Center provides scholarships of up to $300 to help cover expenses for faculty presenting conference papers on student writing in their disciplines. Visit www.muohio/Howe for details.