JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
FACULTY ARTS INNOVATION GRANTS

The Arts Innovation Program is designed to help Homewood faculty develop interdisciplinary (cross-departmental, cross-divisional, or cross-institutional) undergraduate courses that create new educational opportunities in the arts for Homewood students.  Priority will be given to those courses that include two divisions of the University, or one division and a community partner.  While the Arts Innovation grants provide funding for courses that could not otherwise be offered, the authorization to offer a course must come, as always, from the appropriate academic unit.

Grant proposals will be reviewed twice during each academic year: in October for courses that would be offered the following inter-session, spring semester, or fall; and in March for courses that would be offered the following summer, fall or intersession.

Grant proposals may request up to $8,000 in funding.  Proposals should be no more than three pages in length and should include the following:

Course Description: Title and summary of course content including proposed readings, required materials and grading criteria, as well as the  departments/divisions that will list the course.

Faculty: Departmental/divisional affiliation of faculty and any staff or community partner who will help teach the proposed course, and relevant areas of expertise.

Dates to be offered:  Intersession 08; Spring 08; Fall 08

Relevance: How will the proposed course strengthen arts/cultural opportunities for undergraduates?

Instructional expenses: Applicants should submit funding requests or rationale for how the proposed course will affect their course load or other responsibilities and their departmental/divisional resources.

Eligibility

Full-time faculty from all divisions of the Johns Hopkins University are eligible to apply, but all funded courses must be offered on the Homewood campus. 

Application Cover Page

All applications must be submitted with a cover page stating the following:

Name of proposed course
Name of proposed instructors and their departmental, divisional and/or community affiliations
Proposed semester for course

Deadline

Please submit your application, including all required supporting documentation by 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, 3 October 2007 to Winston Tabb, Vice Provost for the Arts via email at  wtabb@jhu.edu.  If you wish to submit supplementary material in hard-copy, please bring it to Lorrie Green in the Dean’s Office, MSEL Q level.   Applicants will be notified no later than 15 October 2007.