Discipline Contact Grants

All disciplines may receive up to $500/year to spend on current thinking about teaching in that discipline.

Purpose:  Allow LCC faculty to tap into the rich source of ideas and experience in the discussions and research taking place within professional organizations, industry groups, other schools, grant funded projects, etc.

To support contact by faculty with current thinking about teaching in their disciplines, each LCC discipline group (approximately 70) will be given a grant up to $500 for this purpose.  This money can be used for:

1. Professional memberships
2. Journal subscriptions
3. Books (books not in content areas bu t in pedagogy)

How to Apply:

To provide the following information in a memo to Adrienne Mitchell, LCCEA FPD coordinator:

1. The name of your discipline , and the names of Lane Faculty in your discipline
2. A description of your discipline request -- a budget with a brief explanation of how the request establishes better contact with thinking about teaching in your discipline.
3. A contact person from the faculty in your discipline.

Attach the request, budget, and explanation to an email (or paste it in an email), and send it to Adrienne Mitchell (mitchella@lanecc.edu). One request per discipline.

You will be contacted soon after sending the request.  You may be asked to clarify your request.  (For example, this money is not to be spent for instructional materials,  but rather for specific journals, fees, etc. related to pedagogy in your discipline -- requests for instructional materials are likely to be rejected unless you can show an explicit connection to these materials and learning about pedagogy in your discipline).

Funding Process:

There are two ways to process the funding:

• Personal payment for reimbursement from FPD.  Steps to follow: 1) One of the people involved in the application purchases the materials listed in the application, saving the receipts.  2) Fill out and print the personal information piece of a check request form (click here for electronic copy).  The remainder of the form will be filled out by FPD.  3) Attach receipts to the check request form and send through intercampus mail to "Jennifer Cook, FPD" along with a copy of the email Adrienne Mews sent approving your grant.
• Department payment for reimbursement from FPD.  Steps to follow: 1) The department pays for the materials.  2) Once the payment is posted to ExpressLane, the department admin prints a copy of the screen showing the expense, highlight the expense. 3) Fill out an ICO and attach the ExpressLane print out and the grant approval email.  4) Send all pieces from step 3 via intercampus mail to "Jennifer Cook, FPD".