Friday @ the Center
November 19, 2010
SERVE 2nd Call Grant Recipients
Thanks to all the faculty and staff who applied for additional SERVE grants. The funding for this second round of proposals was very competitive as the committee received over $80,000 in requests for approximately $40,000 of available funds. The SERVE committee is pleased to support the following projects with this second wave of funding.
Lynette Bikos |
$3,630 |
"Global Trekking Outcomes for SPU Students" |
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Hunter Close |
$4,000 |
"National Dissemination of Transformative Experiences of Physics Learning Assistants" |
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Denise Daniels |
$3,500 |
"The Fruit of the Spirit: Application to Employee Selection and Performance Management" |
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Daniela Geleva |
$2,563 |
"SPU Community Kitchen" |
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Claudia Grauf-Grounds |
$4,117 |
"Call versus On-Call" - |
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Lucille Kelley |
$4,311 |
"Nursing as Calling: From Novice to Expert" |
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Frank Kline |
$4,450 |
"Going to College in the 5th Grade" |
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Bo Lim |
$1,300 |
SOT TSU Camp Casey Retreat |
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Jacquelyn Smith-Bates |
$6,000 |
"Vocational Internship Grants" |
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Cynthia Strong |
$2,000 |
"Work and Faith Collection: A Vocational Resource" |
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Doug Strong & Jeff Van Duzer |
$3,920 |
"SPU Networking Cadres" |
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SBE Guest Speaker Bruno Dyke |
$1,542 |
SBE – Center for Integrity in Business Guest Speaker Chris Bosch |
$1,497 |
Look for the 2011-2012 call for SERVE proposals the beginning of Winter quarter.
Please note that while Lilly SERVE grants were funded by the Lilly Foundation from 2002 – 2009, SPU is committed to the continued exploration of the theological thought about vocational choices among students, faculty, and staff. These and future grants associated with the SERVE program are funded internally by SPU.
Summer Professional Development Opportunities
A Call for Papers for the American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting is available now as well as a slideshow for last year's meeting and student scholarship applications. On-line Abstracts are due January 15, 2011.
American Scientific Affiliation 66th Annual Meeting
Science-Faith Synergy:
Glorifying God and Serving Humankind
North Central College, Naperville, IL
July 29-August 1, 2011
National Humanities Center Summer Institutes in Literary Studies is offering two concentrated workshops this June 26th to July 1st in literary studies. The first focuses on Doris Lessing’s novel “The Golden Book,” while the second focuses on T.S. Elliot’s poetry. The Institute covers the cost of travel, lodging, meals, and texts with an additional stipend of $1,500 for the week. Applications are due March 15th.
Roots not Rungs
This week in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard’s COACHE (Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education) named 32 of its members as pre-tenure friendly colleges (we are not a member of COACHE so we are not among the institutions). While the article itself is not all that enlightening, the data from which they drew their results are and were summarized succinctly in this summer’s volume of the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ journal, Peer Review. To quote the article, "the vast majority of Gen X faculty members are not interested in opportunistic career moves, instead desiring roots not rungs.” Please click on the link above to read more about the similarities and differences in values among different generations of faculty.
Margaret Margaret Diddams, Ph.D. |
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