Grants

CLIC Innovation Grants

Thanks to generous support from the Vice President and Chief Information Officer (VP -  CIO), the Curry School secured funding, during the 2009 – 2010 academic year, to support innovation in three areas:

  • digital scholarship
  • online and distance education
  • community-building

A significant portion of this funding has been used to support a grants program for Curry faculty and students who wish to investigate the use of technologies or materials in support of these three goals. The CLIC Advisory Committee had administered this program, which it is called the Innovation Collaboration Grants, and  set the following guidelines for these grants:

  • Grants may be made to any Curry faculty member or student, and will be awarded based on a written proposal to the CLIC Advisory Committee that advances one or more of the three goals listed above.
  • Grants will be made for up to $5,000, but, given the limited amount of funding available, requests for $2,000 or less are preferred.
  • Grants had to be used to purchase equipment, licenses or other materials, but were not intended to pay individuals or provide financial aid to students.
  • Any item purchased with an Innovation Collaboration grant could be used as indicated in the proposal, but remains the property of the Curry School of Education.

Students and/or faculty who received Innovation Collaboration grants are required to prepare brief reports of the outcome of their innovations that includes suggestions for future use of similar technologies or materials in support of the three goals listed above.
There were no fixed formats for grant proposals, however the CLIC Advisory Committee provided the following three suggestions for proposals:

  1. Exploratory grants
  2. Scale-up grants
  3. Infrastructure grants

Questions regarding the Innovation Collaboration grants should be addressed to Mark Hampton via email at mch9w@virginia.edu This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Proposals may be submitted electronically to the same email address or via Messenger mail to Mark Hampton, Box 400260.

Students and/or faculty who received CLIC Grants during the 2009 – 2010 academic year will present there research during the 2010 – 2011 Tea & Technology series.