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Dee Grant

Dee Grant Awards
The Council of Dee Fellows is now inviting applications for Dee Grant Awards. Funding for grants awarded in the 2009-10 funding cycle will be for next academic year (2010-11). The Dee Committee invites applications from individual faculty or small groups of faculty for projects with broad impact on teaching and/or curriculum, at either the undergraduate or the graduate level. Projects funded in recent years have ranged from $1,000 to $8,000. The Thomas D. Dee II Endowment was established to provide funds for the improvement of teaching in the College of Fine Arts and the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. The Council of Dee Fellows, a representative group of faculty members nominated by the Colleges and elected by the Council, distributes income from the endowment annually in the form of grants.

Aims of proposals that are fundable
The Council invites applications for projects that enhance effectiveness in teaching, which have positive impact on departmental or college curricula, or which promote innovative interdisciplinary educational programs. Proposals must explain their direct benefit to students or the student experience. Proposals must also include a description of the long-term benefit to teaching and learning. The Council has approved funding for a variety of projects, including: faculty and T.A. training in new teaching techniques; development of interdisciplinary curricula; visits by master teachers or well-known performers in the arts; visits and workshops conducted by critics; travel to acquire course-related information. (Synopses of proposals recently funded are listed below)

Who may apply
Proposals are invited from regular or auxiliary faculty members (50% or more F.T.E.) who hold an appointment in the College of Fine Arts or the College of Humanities. Proposals may be submitted by individuals or groups, and they may involve faculty members from other colleges. All collaborative writers of the proposals should be listed as co-applicants. The Council encourages, and will give preference to, proposals that put forward new projects rather than revising previously funded projects. The Council will consider grants that supplement other awards, but applicants who are offered more than one grant for an identical proposal will be required to choose between the awards offered.

Guidelines for applicants
Within the proposal you must carefully explain how the project advances the aims of the Dee Grant program. (see Part I.B.1, of the application). Be sure to clarify the anticipated results and value of your project. If your proposal involves travel funds, please note that only University of Utah approved travel per diem amounts will be reimbursed. The per diem rates can be viewed on the University of Utah Travel Office website. The proposal budget must include detailed information on the requested funds. The proposal budget must include detailed information on the requested funds. If the proposal includes a visiting artist/lecturer, a detailed description of the visitors' qualifications, associated fees, and role must be included.

There are a variety of items not ordinarily funded, including (but not limited to) the following:
–Items that are more logically funded by departmental or college budgets
–Salaries or other funding to meet staffing needs
–Costs associated with receptions/refreshments
–Library materials that would otherwise be funded by library acquisitions. Before the funding of library-type materials will be considered, applicants must first request the purchase of these materials from the appropriate University of Utah library. If the library declines your purchase request, include with your application the letter from library acquisitions declining the request.
–Student tuition
–Publication of faculty creative/scholarly work

How to apply
Only fully completed applications received by the deadline will be considered. The application deadline is Friday, January 22, 2010 by 5:00 p.m.. Print or download the application form: application.pdf. Submit two hard copies and one digital copy in .doc or pdf format of the completed application to:

Council of Dee Fellows
c/o College of Humanities, 2100 LNCO

And to:
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Current council members are willing to consult with applicants in the preparation of their proposals.

V. Kim Martinez
Department of Art & Art History
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Erin O'Connell
Department of Languages and Literature
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Chrisoula Andreou
Department of Philosophy
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Pamela Geber
Department of Modern Dance
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Steve Roens
Department of Music
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Susie Porter
Department of History
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Members of the Council of Dee Fellows are elected following the endowment guidelines. Departments from the Colleges of Fine Arts and Humanities not represented on the Council may elect nominees for the Council. The official letter of nomination must come from the Chair of the Department, accompanied by a Letter of Interest from the nominee and a current 5-page vitae. The Council then elects new members from these nominees.

The Council funds a wide range of proposals. Some examples of recently funded proposals include:

Proposal: Steve Roens & Miguel Chuaqui - School of Music: To bring to the University of Utah for two-day residencies during the 2009-10 academic year cellist Madeleine Shapiron (new music specialist and faculty at the Mannes School of Music), pianist Marilyn Nonken, (new music specialist and faculty at New York University), and Boston pianist Keith Kirchoff, who specializes in the performance of electroacoustic music. Each would conduct two workshops on notation, extended techniques, and other performance problems, coach performance students, and perform a recital.

Proposal: Regina Zarhin - Department of Ballet: In an effort to strengthen and in preparation for the expansion of the Ballet Department's teaching program, I am seeking an opportunity to study new developments and changes currently affecting the Vaganova Method, the world's most comprehensive and respected method of teaching classical ballet. I propose to spend one month at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, observing classes and interviewing teachers.

Proposal: Mariam Thalos - Department of Philosophy: The objective of this proposal is to frame and apply (in Phil 1003: Philosophy of Human Nature, Fall 2009) a new model for interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching intended primarily to surmount familiar organizational obstacles. The new model, which I call the integrative model, draws on the strengths and methodology of philosophy.

Proposal: Ed Barbanell & Anya Plutynski - Department of Humanities: We propose to invite a series of prominent scholars in the Environmental Humanities to give guest lectures and visit both of our Environmental Ehtics course (philosophy 3530) and graduate course in Foundations of the Environmental Humanities (Humanities 6101). Lectures would also be open to the public, presented in the Tanner Library of the new Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

Proposal: Karin Baumgartner, Eric Laursen, Gema Guevara & Angela Espinosa - Department of Languages and Literature: A series of public performances and workshops supporting the Department of Languages and Literature's 2009-10 intellectual theme "Border Crossings." In three public events, a performance artist, a poet, and a photojournalist will illuminate "borders from ethnic, cultural, artistic, and linguistic angles." In addition, workshops will guide students to thoughtful reflection on borders (geographic, linguistic, cultural, political, and individual). The performances are free and open to the public and workshops are part of the core curriculum of the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies.

Proposal: Ellen Bromberg & Connie Wilkerson - Department of Modern Dance: The Department of Modern Dance and the Division of Film Studies are collaborating to present the 2009 International Dance for Camera Festival and Workshop entitled "Women in Dance Film." Scheduled for September 10-12, an award-winning internationally renowned dance filmmaker will be our guest artist. To be selected from among several artists [described in proposal], this filmmaker will conduct a two-day workshop and curate an evening of contemporary and historic dance films by female filmmakers from throughout the world.

Proposal: Steven Sternfeld - Department of Linguistics: I am seeking a Dee Grant to fund web design support to: 1) build an integrated, self-sustaining and student-supported web portal to host websites for three of my courses/programs, and 2) develop dynamic multimedia modules for these websites to serve as models for student-produced modules.