What ideas are exciting you lately? Anything you want to learn? Anything our campus should be talking more about?
Don’t hold back … your ideas could turn into reality.
The VCCS offers two types of professional development grants for projects you would like to see happen in Summer 2019:
- The Paul Lee Professional Development Grant, which awards up to $2,500 in the summer. (Open to all full-time and adjunct faculty.) Unallowable expenses include equipment, supplies, books, software, and student activities.
- The Paul Lee Workshop Mini-Grant, with a maximum award of $1,500. (Open to all VCCS employees, including adjunct faculty and classified staff.) Funds are for conducting a conference/ workshop/ in-service activity, and can include food. The event must involve more than one VCCS college.
The deadline for applications is Friday, Feb. 1.
The VCCS suggests the following topics to get your ideas percolating:
- Initiatives to enhance student success
- Discipline-specific projects
- Information literacy
- Faculty learning communities
- Student learning communities
- Initiatives enhancing the use of technology in teaching and learning
- Best practices in global awareness
- Pedagogy
- Leadership development
- Developmental education
- Alternative evaluation systems
To review the online application and learn more about these grants, go to https://opd.vccs.edu/awards/grants/
The grants office would be happy to talk through you ideas. Please note all proposals must be reviewed by our office prior to submission. Please contact Marilyn Herbert-Ashton ( mherbert-ashton@virginiawestern.edu | 857-6372) or myself ( sseagle@virginiawestern.edu | 857-76084) for assistance.
Shelley Lyons is glad to be back on campus as she is a Virginia Western alum, and has served as the Administrative Officer for Grants Administration at Virginia Western since early 2022. Prior to VWCC, her career focus was within the Human Services and Arts fields. She wrote her first grant in 1996 on a whim and has continued to plan and learn since that time. She most enjoys seeing a well-planned project come to fruition, where funder, project manager and beneficiaries can all feel success and see impact.