GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| Course Objectives | Textbook and Other Things to Read | Assignments | Schedule of Meetings and Due Dates | Evaluation | Technological Devices | What's New? |
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 Approach grant seeking
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proposal writing positively and confidently,
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Textbook. The textbook for the class is:
Bauer, David G. The "How To" Grants Manual; Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants. 3rd ed. American Council on Education. Oryx Press, 1995.A bibliography of other print sources will be provided at the first meeting.
Please also see Funding sources for links to a variety of useful internet pages.
Another source you may find useful is to refer to the on-campus version of the syllabus. There may be helpful detail in the elaboration of topics under the agenda for days 1-4.
1/2 unit: Participate as directed in team, group, and individual work. Submit concept paper and need statement; one posible public and one possible private funding source; a draft one page letter of inquiry; an abbreviated proposal consisting of cover sheet and abstract, need statement and proposal objectives, operation worksheets for each objective, resource plan worksheet, one paragraph each on proposed methods of evaluation and dissemination, and a one-page budget. Prepare a series of web pages to show final proposal. Critique with team a group of other proposals.
1 unit: Participate as directed in team, group, and individual work. Submit concept paper and need statement; three possible public and three possible private funding sources; a letter proposal; a full proposal consisting of cover letter, cover sheet, abstract,introduction (context), need statement, goal(s) and objectives, work plan, resource plan, evaluation plan, dissemination plan, and budget with justifications and specifications (where needed), plus any supporting documents required. Prepare all submissions as a series of web pages. Critique with team a group of other proposals.
For your convenience, please see Assignments for a picture of how these assignments are related and when each piece is due.
Criteria for grading the proposal includes:
Incompletes: A grade of incomplete may be taken only because of illness or special circumstances and only with the prior permission of the instructor.
You and your designated team mate(s) will be working collaboratively to produce homework assignments as web pages. The tool we will use to do this is called Site Edit. Each team will have a directory on this page and a form to assist you in creating your pages.
The class will use a Web Board as a discussion tool. I hope many of you will be familiar with this already. You will use this particularly in completing the group critiques of each other's work.
We will also use a listserv which I will have set up by our first distance meeting on June 26.
In addition to these asynchronous tools, we will also need to meet simultaneously a number of times through the semester. See the schedule for a tentative schedule of times for such meetings. The tool we will use to conduct our synchronous meetings is called Web Tour and with it we will be able to use the College Town MOO which I believe most of you are familiar with you. I will also be able to conduct some Real Audio sessions through the Web Tour in which I will be speaking to you and you will be able to respond through the MOO with a text chat session.
Of course in addition to these fancy tools, some of which are new to all of us, we will be able to email each other as frequently as you wish. With the exception of one week in July, I should be able to respond to your individual email messages with a 24 hour turnaround.