CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: COURSE DEVELOPMENT STIPENDS FOR RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND EURASIA

Dear SHERAns,
with apologies for cross-posting from SEELANGS, I wanted to draw your
attention to this grant since the subject of incorporating our field into
undergraduate curricula came up in several conversations we collectively
had a group at ASEEES this past week.
Sincerely,
Ksenya Gurshtein
Web News Editor


CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: COURSE DEVELOPMENT STIPENDS FOR RUSSIA, EASTERN
EUROPE, AND EURASIA

Through funding from the U.S. Department of Education, six Title VI
National Resource Centers plan to award stipends to faculty at community
colleges and minority-serving institutions to develop and incorporate
greater content about Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia into the
curricula of the institutions at which they teach. These National Resource
Centers (NRCs) receive grants under the Higher Education Act to train
specialists in the study of the countries of this region and to work with
other postsecondary institutions to expand Russian, East European, and
Eurasian content in the classroom. Faculty at community colleges and
minority-serving institutions throughout the U.S. are invited to apply for
a course development stipend. Awards will be from $1,000-$3,000. All
full-time, regular part-time, and adjunct faculty are encouraged to apply.
Applicants can propose to redesign an existing course or to develop a new
course including at least 25% content on Russia, Eastern Europe, and/or
Eurasia. Funds will be made available to awardees in the form of a stipend
and/or for purchase of curriculum materials, research related travel
(including conference attendance), or consultation with a faculty member
from a participating NRC. Awardees can also access the library of one
participating NRC during the funding period. To be eligible as a
minority-serving institution, applicant institutions are those listed by
the U.S. Department of Education as eligible for Title III and Title V for
FY2015 (
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/idues/t3t5-eligibles-2015.pdf).



Full details on the competition and the application package can be found
at: http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/curriculum-development-stipends.



The application deadline is *Friday, January 8, 2016.  *Please submit to
Eileen Kunkler by email at [email protected]. Award notifications will be
sent out by late January 2016.



Participating Centers:

Indiana U., Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center
<http://www.indiana.edu/~iaunrc/>

Indiana U., Russian & East European Institute <http://www.iub.edu/~reeiweb/>

Ohio State University, Center for Slavic & East European Studies
<http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/>

U. of California, Berkeley, Institute of Slavic, East European, & Eurasian
Studies <http://iseees.berkeley.edu/>

U. of Pittsburgh, Center for Russian & East European Studies
<http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/>

U. of Washington, Ellison Center for Russian, East European, & Central
Asian Studies <http://ellisoncenter.washington.edu/>



For more information, please contact Eileen Kunkler ([email protected]) at
the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State
University.



*Eileen Kunkler *
Assistant Director
*The Ohio State University*
Office of International Affairs Center for Slavic and East European Studies
303 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-8770 Office / 614-292-4273 Fax
[email protected] slaviccenter.osu.edu

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