Open Education Curriculum Development Grant

Open Education Curriculum Development Grant (Deadline 4/28/2023)


Eligibility:

The Dean of the Faculty and the Ad Hoc OER Committee invite Colorado College tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, and lecturers to apply for a grant to adopt or adapt Open Educational Resources for an upcoming course(s). Applicants need not have knowledge of or experience with using, adopting, or adapting OER. The library will provide experienced professionals to support faculty and instructors throughout the process.  

Goals:
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by use of an open license (for example, Creative Commons licenses) which allows anyone to freely use, adapt and share the resource—anytime, anywhere. “Open” permissions are typically defined in terms of the “5R’s”: users are free to Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute these educational materials. 
 
These grants are intended to lower barriers to education by increasing access and lowering costs to students, advancing ADEI initiatives, promoting collaboration, and advancing Open Education at Colorado College. 

These will be summer salary grants that funds the work of adopting, remixing, and adapting Open Educational Resources to eliminate existing costs to students through commercial textbooks and other course materials. The typical project should be completed and ready to be implemented in your 2023-24 course(s). Depending on the nature of the work, the largest projects of creation of OER do not need to be fully completed by the end of the summer, though substantial progress and a plan for completion will be expected.
 
Salary Grants: Types and Amounts  
Grants will be offered and awarded at the following amounts, to support the following types of projects: 
  1. Adopt existing OER course materials for use in a course: $2,000.
  2. Adoption of OER course materials for use in multiple courses: $3,000 max per person 
  3. Adapt, remix, or create OER course material for use in your course(s): $3,000-$6,000. What type of course material do you plan to Create, Remix, or Adapt? The creation of significant supplemental materials for an existing resource is a form of adaptation (e.g., making an OER test bank for an OER book). Authoring something new is creation.  
  4. Group Projects: $6,000 max 

Requirements for the Grant 
  1. Implement your adoption or adaptation of the OER by the next time you teach the course in 2023-24.
  2. Complete grant surveys
    1. before curriculum development, 
    2. once the course is built, and
    3. once the course is taught.  
  3. Agree to participate in an interview, workshop, or panel discussion about your experience. 
  4. Agree to allow the library to promote your OER material.  
  5. Agree to license your OER text/course material with an open Creative Commons license, and you must deposit the material on our institutional repository, digitalCC. 
Selection Process 
Grant proposals are submitted via an online application form, and those received by the deadline (4/28/2023) will be reviewed and selected based on the following criteria: 
  • Expected cost savings for students: The proposal/application form includes information on current material costs, usual or expected student enrollment, and the frequency of the course offering at CC. 
  • Objectives: The proposal’s objectives are clearly articulated and well-planned. The rationale for approaching the project is clear, and the applicants have reflected on the work necessary to make it a success. 
  • Impact: The proposal articulates how the OER will make a pedagogical impact in the course and/or how it will fill a disciplinary gap in open content. 
  • Feasibility: The proposal’s timeline is feasible and aligns with the work required to complete the project in a timely manner. Priority will be given to projects expected to be used in a course by the 2023-2024 academic year, then 2024-25.
     

Selection emails will be sent May 2, 2023. 
 
Questions 
Please reach out to Patrick Mundt, OER and Lead Research Services Librarian: pmundt@coloradocollege.edu“>pmundt@coloradocollege.edu | (719) 389-6996 or Dustin Fife, College Librarian: dfife@coloradocollege.edu“>dfife@coloradocollege.edu | (719) 389-6070 

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Block 7: Antiracism Goal Implementation Forum

BLOCK 7 CROWN FORUM: Antiracism Implementation Plan Goals  

Establish Antiracism, Equity, and inclusion as Foundational to Our Community Expectations

The FEC’s number one priority this year is to support the college in implementing the antiracism plan goals while upholding academic freedom.  We are co-sponsoring a series of forums from Blocks two to seven with each forum focusing on a specific goal of the antiracism plan.  The summary of feedback from past forums is available on the FEC canvas page.

The next forum will be on Wednesday, April 12, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Tutt Library 411/412.  This forum is a repeat of the forum from Block 2.  We sincerely hope that you will attend and give us your feedback to inform our future work on implementing the antiracism plan goals.  The goal for this forum is to discuss how to Establish Antiracism, Equity, and inclusion as Foundational to Our Community Expectations.  Please join us for a fearless but mutually respectful dialogue. To make the forum as productive as possible, please review the initiatives that are part of this goal, which can be found here, and review a glossary of ADEI terms, which can be found here.
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Summer Collaborative Research Stipend

Dear Faculty,

Colorado College proudly has a long history of supporting undergraduate research. Summer student research stipends help make these high-impact experiences accessible to students. 

Beginning this summer, Colorado College will increase the ten-week summer student research stipend from $4,000 to $4,500. These stipends are funded through a variety of internal and external funding sources. If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Schwartz about funding through the Faculty Student Collaborative Grant, and Emily Chan about funding through all other sources.

Sincerely,

Pedro de Araujo

Dean of the College
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Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Candidate Open Forums

Meet the Candidates

In March, Rochelle T. Dickey ’83, P’19 retired from CC. The search committee is excited to have found four outstanding candidates in the search for a new Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students. CC will host open forums with each finalist, open to all students, staff, and faculty.

You’re invited to meet the candidates on:

April 3, 4, 5
4-4:45 p.m. in Bemis Great Hall 

April 13
4-4:45 p.m. in Gaylord Hall

As in previous open forums with candidates, there will be time for questions and dialogue.

Questions? Please email search chair, Lesley Irvine, at lirvine@coloradocollege.edu.
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Don’t Forget Block 7 First Mondays with Bryan Alexander

Tomorrow! Join us for the Block 7 First Mondays speaker, Monday, April 3, at 11:15 a.m. in the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre.

Join us tomorrow for a talk by Bryan Alexander about the research behind his new book, “Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis,” which explores the many levels of possible academic engagement, and how higher education can respond to the unfolding climate crisis. These include changes to the physical campus, to academia’s research mission, to teaching and learning, and to community relations. 

Block 7 First Monday
April 3, 11:15 a.m./Hybrid Zoom Link
Kathryn Mohrman Theatre

The First Mondays Event Series is a campus-wide forum that aims to engage all members of the CC community, including students, staff, administrators, and faculty. The series creates opportunities for the whole community to gather, encouraging everyone to be part of the intellectual life of the college, and facilitating discourse among students, faculty, and staff, across courses, disciplines, and divisions. Classes are dismissed early on the first Monday of each block so that all may attend the First Mondays event.
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