Santa Clara University

Special Focus Grants

Women's and Gender Studies Program

The Women's and Gender Studies Program offers grants of up to $250 for WGST teaching faculty. Grants support travel to present research at academic conferences, faculty-student collaboration, and research that fulfills the goals and objectives of the Program.

• Contact: Linda Garber, Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
• Applications accepted year round
• Amount: up to $250
• website: www.scu.edu/wgst

Jesuit Education Grants

Ignatian Center Grants

Bannan Grants support scholarly and pedagogical projects enhancing the Jesuit character of the University. Dialogue and Design Grants provide seed money for collaborative projects.

• Contact: Paul Woolley, Associate Director, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
• Application Deadlines: November 1 and May 1
• Amount: up to $5,000
• website: www.scu.edu/ignatiancenter/bannan/grants/  

Discover Curriculum Development Grants

Discover Curriculum Development Grants support the development of new courses on vocation or the incorporation of a focus on vocation into a current course.

• Contact: Diane Dreher, English Department.
• Applications accepted year round 
• Amount: up to $1,000 or one course release 
• website: www.scu.edu/discover/facultystaff

Ethics

Hackworth Grants

Hackworth Grants support research and teaching in Applied Ethics. Grants are available to all faculty-- tenured, tenure track, lecturers, and adjunct.

• Contact: David DeCosse, Director of Campus Ethics Programs
• Application Deadline: May and November
• Amount: up to $5,000
• website: www.scu.edu/ethics/about/faculty/grant.html

Ethics Across the Curriculum Grants

Lawrence Nelson of the Philosophy Department, the 2007-08 Curricular Ethics Consultant, will provide assistance in incorporating ethics into SCU undergraduate courses in any department. Consultation services may include (but are not limited to) developing case studies for classroom use, assisting in the creation of a module on ethics as part of an overall class, advising on the syllabus, recommending appropriate readings, creating a background memo with an ethical analysis of the targeted subject, modeling effective ethics pedagogy by leading a class discussion in the ethics unit, and recommending an assessment strategy for the ethics portion of the course.

• Contact: David DeCosse, Director of Campus Ethics Programs; Bill Sundstrom, Associate Provost for Faculty Development; Larry Nelson, Senior Lecturer and Curricular Ethics Consultant
• Application Deadline: December, 2007.
• website: www.scu.edu/ethics/about/faculty/curriculum.html  

Technology

Funds for Technology Innovation

Grants support technology innovation for curricular, scholarly, and service-oriented projects.

• Contact: Paul Soukup, S.J., Chair, Technology Steering Committee; Ron Danielson, CIO
• Application Deadline: November and March
• Amount: Teaching Grants up to $10,000; Larger Projects: up to $100,000
• website: http://eres.scu.edu then search "TSC000"

Science, Technology, and Society

Research Grants

Grants support research relating to the global sharing of information and knowledge from a social scientific, legal, educational or other perspective.

• Contact: Geof Bowker, Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society
• Applications accepted year round 
• Amount: up to $15,000
• website: http://www.scu.edu/sts/communityofscholars/sponsoredresearch.cfm