Innovation Fund Pilot Projects
Off-Campus Faculty and Staff Mentoring Program
Contact: Leslie Gregg-Jolly and Marc Reed
This pilot project will support external mentors, called Senior Fellows for Advancement of 乐播传媒入口 Excellence, for faculty and staff members from underrepresented groups. This program is designed to support inclusive excellence by enhancing mentees鈥 sense of belonging and productivity, while gaining external feedback on 乐播传媒入口鈥檚 programs and policies.
Faculty and Staff Development Seminar to Ghana and South Africa
Contact: Shuchi Kapila
This pilot project will support the development of geographical sites in two locations in sub-Saharan Africa for teaching and research in various disciplines and through interdisciplinary and team-teaching opportunities. The grant will support faculty and staff travel to Ghana and South Africa to visit universities, colleges, nonprofit organizations, off-campus study programs, historical sites, and to meet scholars and civil society activists.
Neurohumanities: A Student 鈥淩esearch Arc鈥 for the Liberal Arts
Contact: Joseph Neisser and Ralph Savarese
This pilot project will develop a new curricular model for creating and sustaining undergraduate research. A 鈥淩esearch Arc鈥 combines an interdisciplinary course cluster (or "critical theme") with MAPs, and culminates in a student-hosted conference with faculty and student presenters. In this Research Arc, students and faculty will explore what the humanities can contribute to neuroscientific discussions of human experience and how the humanities can evolve through a critical encounter with neuroscience.
乐播传媒入口 Singers Concert Tour to China 2020
Contact: John Rommereim
This pilot project will provide funds for a concert tour by the 乐播传媒入口 Singers to be undertaken in March 2020 to China. The tour will provide an extraordinary cross-cultural, global learning experience for 乐播传媒入口鈥檚 students. The project includes a choral/orchestral collaboration between the 乐播传媒入口 Singers and Chinese musicians, as well as the commission of a new work from a Chinese composer.
Innovation Fund Planning Projects
The East Asian Studies Gateway Seminar
Contact: Mariko Schimmel and Jin Feng
This planning project will support the development of a group-taught East Asian Studies Gateway seminar. This course will function as a foundation course for all East Asian Studies concentrators, but it also will serve the broader student population by combining the disciplinary expertise of the East Asian Studies faculty at 乐播传媒入口. The seminar will equip the concentrators with a sense of a cohesive curriculum before they embark on the extensive interdisciplinary work.
乐播传媒入口-in-China: A Digital History Documentation Project
Contact: Weiwei Luo, Christopher Jones, and Cecilia Knight
This planning grant will support the continuation of the 乐播传媒入口-in-China project, a pedagogically driven digitization project primarily intended to create new digital materials for use in the 乐播传媒入口 classroom and hosted in Digital 乐播传媒入口. Students participating in creation of this collection gain project management and digital history skills in exhibition and online presentation, metadata and transcription, documentation, licensing, and rights management.
A Proposal for Interdisciplinary Learning Through Clay
Contact: Kelly Maynard
This planning project will explore the development of an interdisciplinary course design that will integrate the creation of ceramics with the history of material culture including course requirements that include 鈥榣earning by doing鈥. The project will commence in July 2020.
Advancing Digital Literacies for a Liberal Arts Education
Contact: Morris Pelzel
This planning project will support preliminary planning of a curricular initiative in digital literacies and competencies for the 乐播传媒入口 academic community. The information ecosystem is increasingly mediated by digital applications, methods, and practices. The project鈥檚 mission is to assist faculty, staff, and students in navigating the digital world successfully as reflective citizens, effective workers, and lifelong learners.