IMPART
Purpose
The purpose of the IMPART (Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching) Faculty Fellowship Award Program is to further develop a campus environment which supports and encourages gender, ethnic, and cultural diversity in our approaches to scholarly work and teaching. The IMPART program will support activities of the following types:
Fellowships (up to $4,000) are available for faculty to:
- Engage in research or scholarly activities that have a multi-ethnic or multi-cultural focus. Fellowship awards may be used for travel, data collection, and other costs related to research or scholarly activities. Awards may also be used for partial funding (to a maximum of $2,000) of summer support or reduction of teaching load.
- Awards to academic units to support their invitation of women and multi-ethnic scholars to visit campus in order to contribute to that unit in a manner that enriches the teaching or scholarly activity of that unit and the campus. Examples of visits may be those where the invitee participates in a speaker series in the unit, provides a workshop or training activity for students or faculty affiliated with the unit, or participates in the teaching activities of the unit. Cost sharing by the unit will be viewed as beneficial to the application.
- Awards to support colloquia, conferences, or workshops on the Boulder campus having an academic and multi-ethnic/multi-cultural theme. Cost sharing by the sponsoring unit will be viewed as beneficial to the application.
- Fellowships to faculty to assist them in expanding the undergraduate curriculum in the area of ethnic and gender diversity. Fellowships may be in support of developing new courses or integrating into existing courses significant ethnic and gender perspectives. Fellowships may be used to purchase teaching materials and resources, to hire student assistants in support of course development, or to provide a portion of a course load reduction in order to facilitate course development.
Priority will be given to proposals that address issues to improve campus environment in the area of gender, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
The committee is also particularly interested in funding research/scholarly proposals from plurality and women at the assistant professor level. Providing support for junior faculty to initiate their own research and scholarly programs is a high priority for IMPART.
Award Limitations
Awards are limited to $4,000 per proposal and only up to $2,000 may be used for course buy-outs. If you have received an IMPART award within the last three years, your proposal will have the lowest priority. Award funds should be expended within 12 months of the award unless other arrangements are proposed as part of the application. Proposals for continuing support will not be considered, but projects or activities that extend over two or three years will be considered within the $4,000 per award limitation. A report on the outcome of the project will be required one year after the award's issuance.
Application Procedure
Applications are announced once per year, during the fall semester. All full- or half-time regular faculty members (instructor or tenure track faculty) on the Boulder Campus are eligible to apply. Please use the checklist on the IMPART Fellowship Application to ensure that your proposal is complete. The Committee will not review incomplete proposals. Applicants should submit the application (with completed checklist), a brief (five page) proposal, a summary vita (maximum two pages), a project budget, and a letter of support from their chair or dean. (See Chair's/Dean's Statement form.)
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: This Fellowship Award is UNDER CONSTRUCTION. More information to follow.
For further information, please contact the Office of Diversity and Equity at 735-1332 or e-mail sharon.vieyra@colorado.edu.