Innovative Technology and Education Funding

Request for Proposals

UAF Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff are invited to apply for an ITE award of up to $10,000 for technology-related equipment and/or software associated with student-based instruction and/or research.

Eligibility

• Undergraduate students and graduate students in any year of study and from any UAF campus with a GPA of 2.0 or above are eligible to apply

• Faculty and staff at all UAF campuses are eligible to apply.

Deadline to apply is March 18, 2016.

Details and application:

www.uaf.edu/ursa/

•  Click on “URSA Award Application”

Criteria for selection

• Written quality of the proposal and purpose of the equipment/software

• Direct benefit to the educational experience of students (including the number of students benefitting from the equipment/software)

• While the subject and results may contribute to an individual faculty member’s program of instruction, research or creative scholarship, the use of technology-related equipment/software must involve undergraduate and/or graduate students

• Implementation schedule (all equipment/software will be the property of the awardee’s department: therefore the overseeing department must be identified in the proposal).

• Detailed list of equipment/software with specifications and costs (including shipping and installation charges)

• Maintenance plan for the equipment/software

• Funds must be spent by June 30, 2016

Selection Process

• Selections will be made by the URSA ITE Review Panel.

• Funding decisions will be announced by email and posted on the URSA website by April 15, 2016.

• Awardees are required to submit a report by December 31, 2016 which will include the use of the equipment/software within the context of the stated proposal and an itemized account of how the funds were spent.

 

This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:

https://www.uaf.edu/files/ursa/Awards/2016-ITE-RFPmar18.pdf