Faculty Travel Grants - - Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) - - Applied Health & Development Research
Faculty Professional Development Travel Grants
Kansas African Studies Center
The Kansas African Studies Center, thanks to
funding from the US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center
grant, is once again able to offer a limited number of domestic and
international professional development travel grants. This email sets for the
policies and procedures for applying for these moneys; please take note of
several key factors (in all capital letters below) that will govern our
distribution of travel awards in this grant cycle, particularly for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Domestic
Awards
1. For 2010-11, KASC has 6 awards of $400 each to
give for faculty and professional staff.
2. We invite applications for 3 of these awards for
Fall semester on a rolling basis, beginning 27 SEP 2010.
3. We invite applications for the other three for
use in Spring semester, with a deadline of 01 DEC 2010 for
applications.
4. THE AWARD AMOUNT IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO $400. If
this is not sufficient for your entire trip, it will be necessary to find
supplemental sources for your travel.
5. The application process is simple: Please send
the request by email to Garth Myers (gmyers@ku.edu), what the $400 will be used for (typically, KASC
domestic travel grants are for conference attendance and paper presentation),
the dates, and any other information you feel is relevant, such as your
involvement with KASC.
6. Additionally, KASC has instituted a new policy
that all recipients of domestic and/or international travel grants must agree to
some form of service on behalf of KASC. PLEASE SPECIFY WHAT YOU PROPOSE FOR YOUR
SERVICE - this can take many forms, from a brownbag or seminar presentation to
assistance in conference organization, to some imaginative way that you may
think of to further participate with KASC in advancing African studies. The key
point is that, while KASC is here to serve you, we are also a small staff who
need your help, and we want to see that our investments pay off in community
building for African studies.
International
Awards
1. For 2010-11, KASC has 3 awards of $2300 each to
give to faculty and professional staff for research or professional development
travel to Africa.
2. Our intention is to offer these awards for
Summer travel, and we therefore set a deadline for reciept of applications of
March 1; earlier applications and earlier (non-Summer) awards may be considered
under circumstances that we ask you to detail for us; we have simply found that
Summer travel awards have a more productive payoff research-wise for KASC and
thus give preference to this in the award process.
3. THE AWARD AMOUNT IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO $2300.
If this is not sufficient for your entire trip, as I suspect it will not be, it
will be necessary to find supplemental sources for your travel.
4. The application process is not as simple as the
domestic awards. Since this is Federal money, we must abide by the guidelines of
the government. The US Department of Education International Education Program
Services office must approve the itinerary and project of the proposed travel in
advance, assuring compliance with the FlyAmerica Act and the mission of the KASC
NRC. Please send your CV, a paragraph explaining your project of professional
development in Africa and how it serves the mission of KASC, and a tentative
itinerary (including flight numbers, airlines, connecting flights, dates of
travel, cost, and other soources of funding) to Garth Myers (gmyers@ku.edu). We will process the
Travel Authorization Request with IEPS and inform you when it is approved (or,
if it is not, what needs to be done to revise it). This usually takes a week,
and all TARs must be submitted well in advance of travel (more than 30
days).
5. As with the domestic awards, KASC has instituted
a policy through which we seek to develop a formal link between the
international travel money and service to KASC. PLEASE SPECIFY WHAT YOU PROPOSE
TO DO FOR SERVICE TO KASC. In addition, please use your application to discuss
past, present, and future service to KASC so that we can assess the applications
in light of the very small number of awards available and the likelihood of
competition in securing the award.
Faculty with any questions on either the domestic or international grants should please email Garth Myers (gmyers@ku.edu) or call 864-3858.
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Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
The Kansas African Studies Center, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, awarded academic year fellowships to six graduate students and three undergraduate students during 2010-2011. (You can find a list of recipients here.) See link below to download application forms for Summer 2011 and Academic Year 2011-2012. The academic year fellowship provides a stipend of $15,000, and it also covers tuition and fees up to $18,000 per academic year. Fellows are required to enroll in an African language class (Amharic, Arabic, KiSwahili, Wolof, or Hausa) and an African area studies class in each semester of the year. Applicants also must be eligible to receive a tuition scholarship from KU and be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Download Application and FLAS Recommendation Form.
For more information contact:
Dr. Garth Myers, KASC Director
10 Bailey Hall, University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-3858
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Fellows cannot be native speakers of the language for which they apply. Other African languages may be available on a tutorial basis, but special permission must be requested, and the four core languages are given priority. Ph.D. candidates who have completed their coursework may substitute dissertation research conducted in the designated African language for actual language study under specific circumstances. Travel abroad is limited to Ph.D. candidates performing dissertation research with advanced-level language proficiency in the designated language, and special approval must be requested for fellows going abroad.
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