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Awesome Grants Program promotes Student/Faculty Interaction!

Research supports the claim that the more contact students have with faculty outside of the classroom, the more likely they will persist in school and graduate. This award-winning program provides funds to faculty for various activities with students outside the classroom, allowing participants to interact in a social setting, and reducing students' feelings of intimidation around faculty members. In previous years, faculty members have hosted trips, get-togethers at homes, nights at the opera, and many other creative activities.

Assessment of the program conducted by the Dean of Students Office in 2002 revealed several positive outcomes from this kind of contact between students and faculty. Students who were involved with the S/FI Grant program felt that they:
1) became more actively involved in their academic work,
2) were more likely to take advantage of faculty members' office hours, and
3) had a greater ability to connect their course curriculum to experiences outside of the classroom.

Faculty members can apply to the program six times a year for grants to fund a wide array of activities. All applications will be evaluated by the following criteria:

1. The quality of interaction likely to occur between students and faculty as a result of the program.
2. The following priorities will be followed:
a. Freshmen and new transfers have top priority;
b. Underclassman over upperclassman; and
c. Undergraduate over graduate.
3. Faculty and/or graduate teaching assistants with grading responsibilities must initiate or sponsor the proposals. Non-academic units may submit proposals with a faculty co-sponsor. Priority will be given to professors who teach introductory courses.
4. We encourage interdisciplinary events between academic departments.
5. Because of fiscal constraints, we will not fund speaker honoraries or travel funding for guest speakers.

The application deadlines are as follows:

Application Deadline: For Events Held: You Should Hear From us By:

August 8, 2005* 8/15 – 10/9, 2005 August 11, 2005
September 26, 2005 10/10-12/18, 2005 October 3, 2005
January 9, 2006 1/11 – 3/13, 2006 January 11, 2006
March 6, 2006 3/20-5/14, 2006 March 13, 2006
May 1, 2006 5/15 – 6/30, 2006 May 8, 2006
June 19, 2006 7/18/14, 2006 June 26, 2006

* Due to the tardiness of this notification, the first deadline period is extended to August 19.

In preparing your application, thoroughly plan your event and contact all vendors to be certain your plans are acceptable to them. Our office can advise you of steps to take, but will not make any arrangements for your event.

Applications can now be submitted online, or you may pick up an application from the Dean of Students Office, Old Main 203, and return it to us, or fax the pdf application, also available online, to (520) 621-9866. For further questions, feel free to contact me at (520) 621-7059, or via email: malfred@email.arizona.edu.