{"id":29,"date":"2016-06-21T03:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acfacultysem.wordpress.com\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2016-06-21T03:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T03:04:28","slug":"davis-educational-foundation-grant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/europeanstudiesresources\/davis-educational-foundation-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Educational Foundation Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>Exploring Academic Department Clusters<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>from Call for Faculty Proposals, Fall 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333399\">Mount Holyoke has received a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to engage in a pilot project to explore academic department clusters, and potentially de-clustering and re-clustering.\u00a0 The Dean of Faculty is issuing a call for proposals to members of two more more departments who wish to plan and participate in an academic department cluster pilot project in 2016-17.*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333399\">Our beginning definition for a department cluster is the combining of two or more departments under a single faculty chair, but many formats are possible.\u00a0 We are interested in what faculty can imagine as a cluster.\u00a0 We anticipate that department clusters may increase opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration, enhance the engagement and continuity in collaborative governance, and create opportunities for increased administrative support and career opportunities for staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333399\">The Davis Educational grant will support a year of planning (2015-16*) for the pilot project.\u00a0 Participants will:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#333399\">Form a cluster group (2 or more departments)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#333399\">Hold several meetings of your cluster group during Fall 2015 and Spring 2016;* groups will receive a budget of $2,000 for meals, books, and materials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#333399\">Be eligible to participate in a faculty seminar on academic department clusters chaired by Sonya Stephens; the seminar will meet three times between December 2015 and March 2016; participants will receive a stipend of $500 each; the goal of the seminar is to develop a plan for those departments participating in the planning process to test department clusters in 2016-17.*<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333399\">The Davis Educational grant will also fund a speaker series that will take place in the spring of 2016 relating to the role of faculty chairs and faculty leadership, and to the themes of community, collaboration, and connection.\u00a0 We will hold a campus-wide forum in March 2016 to share a draft of the plan to test academic department clusters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*The call yielded two proposals for academic clusters\u2013European Studies and Ancient &amp; Medieval Studies.\u00a0 Funding was granted to these clusters officially in Spring 2016, and planning has subsequently been pushed back.\u00a0 In AY 2016-17, the two clusters will engage in a planning process through two concurrently held faculty seminars to discuss faculty research, and to re-imagine governance and student curriculum.\u00a0 The projected pilot year for the academic clusters is 2017-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring Academic Department Clusters from Call for Faculty Proposals, Fall 2015 Mount Holyoke has received a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to engage in a pilot project to explore academic department clusters, and potentially de-clustering and re-clustering.\u00a0 The Dean of Faculty is issuing a call for proposals to members of two more more departments who wish to plan and participate in an academic department cluster pilot project in 2016-17.* Our beginning definition for a department cluster is the combining of two or more departments under a single faculty chair, but many formats are possible.\u00a0 We are interested in what &hellip; 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