CHA Small Grant Application

Due to the extreme staffing shortage that the CHA is experiencing (ie: there are no full time staff working in the CHA as of April 1), the April 1 Small Grant Deadline has been cancelled.

Instead, we are creating a June 1 Small Grant deadline for faculty who wish to apply for monies to help with professional projects that can be funded starting July 1, 2022 and into the fall 2022 semester. We understand if this is disappointing or difficult for faculty trying to plan ahead. We hope you can appreciate the extraordinary situation that the CHA is in with having no staff to help manage this grant.

The director, Jennifer Ho, appreciates your patience and compassion.

CHA's Small Grant is intended to provide support for the research and creative efforts of CU Boulder faculty to deepen and enrich the range of humanistic and artistic activities on campus. Consult the Policies section before completing this application.

DEADLINES for AY 21-22
EXTENDED: September 15, 2021
November 1, 2021
February 1, 2022
EXTENDED: June 1, 2022

Questions? Email cu-cha@colorado.edu.

Applicant Name *

Date *

Month

Day

Year

Application Checklist *

Applicant is a current CU Boulder faculty member holding at least a 50% FTE rostered appointment.

Budget does not exceed $3000.

Applicant Rank and Department *

Link for Department Faculty Profile or CU Experts Page *

Please share a CU Boulder link to either your departmental faculty profile page or CU Boulder Experts page so that our review committee can get a sense of your research profile and/or read your cv.

Amount Requested * $

Past GCAH/Small Grants

List all former CHA Small Grants (formerly GCAH) you’ve received in the past five years. Include project title, amount received, and date report was submitted.

Additional Sources of Support

List additional sources of support indicating whether or not support has been granted. Include agency/unit supporting, amount requested, awarded yes/no/pending.

Supplemental Funds

Describe available supplementary funds (e.g., from College Dean, department or your faculty research account). For individual research we expect faculty to use their primary research account before applying for a CHA Small Grant.

Project Title *

Proposal and Budget Description *

Max three pages, double-spaced, 12 pt. type. Please provide information about (1) the nature of the work, (2) the importance of the work to your research area and your career (3) expected outcomes, (4) a breakdown of your budget. We will still allow Small Grant applications for guest remote lectures if you are teaching remotely for the ENTIRE Spring 2022 semester. Be sure to list the amount of honoraria you will be distributing per classroom remote guest lecture—the maximum amount of honoraria you can distribute is $200 per person/lecture. The total amount of funds you can apply for is $1000.00. It would be helpful for the committee to know how these classroom remote guest lectures will ultimately help you as an artist/researcher/scholar, even if only to free up your time to work on your art/scholarship. Classroom remote guest lectures cannot be retroactively funded beyond the small grant deadline.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf.

Link for Guest Artist/Scholar Website

OPTIONAL: For applicants who wish to bring a guest to campus, please provide a link to the guest artist/scholar’s website OR please include a brief description of the guest in your proposal.

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CHA Best Practices for Reviewing Application

We are sharing these guidelines to be transparent and to ensure integrity in our selection processes. Our reviewers are members of the CHA faculty steering committee, and they are guided by principles of equity, inclusivity, and objectivity.

Applications will be read and reviewed in an objective and unbiased manner.
The strength of the proposal will be the main criterion for ranking all applications under review; letters, c.v., and other materials will be taken into consideration as secondary or tertiary to the proposal.
Reviewers will recuse themselves from reading and ranking applications if there is a conflict of interest, which is defined as anyone who has a legal relationship to the applicant (partner, parent). Reviewers will refrain from reading/ranking applicants in their department, but discussion of final candidates is allowed after initial review and ranking.
The contents of applications and the discussion of applications in all review committees are confidential -- information about applicants or the discussion of the applications may not be shared with others outside the review panel.
Reviewers will adhere to timelines for reading applications out of respect to their fellow committee members as well as the applicants. Whenever possible, applications will be read and rankings made two weeks (and no later than three weeks) after the advertised application deadline; however, given the length of the faculty fellowship proposal, exceptions can be made and a separate timeline and process developed where circumstances demand.

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