Lurie College of Education Grants Academy Program
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Lurie College of Education Grants Academy Program Welcomes You
Strengthening Our Knowledge Through Funded Research
Understanding the Grant Development Process
The Lurie College of Education's Grants Academy Program will provide support to faculty members who are interested in developing introductory grant writing and funding knowledge and skills. The program goals are as follows:
1. LCOE faculty participants will increase their self-reported intellectual and practical grant-writing knowledge;
2. The LCOE will increase its number of faculty members accepted into the SJSU all-university Grants Academy;
3. The LCOE will increase its number of faculty members awarded internal SJSU research-related grants.
Forming a Fundable Research Idea
January 27, 2017, 10:00 – 11:30 AM LCOE Student Success Center
Featured Speaker:
Daniel Schwartz
Dean, College of Education
Stanford University
a. Developing a grant proposal and forming a grant idea;
b. The value and use of a proposal outline;
c. Developing a clear project with cogent research questions borne from the
relevant extant literature;
d. Basic versus applied research; Levels of evidence; Randomized trials;
e. Responsibilities of a Principal investigator (PI) vs. co-PIs vs. project
director; Authorship on manuscripts.
Project Evaluation, Logic Models, Theory of Change, and Theory of Action
February 24, 2017, 10:00 – 11:30 AM Sweeney Hall 433
Featured Speakers:
Victoria Schaefer
Senior Director
WESTAT
Edith Gummer
Research Director
Kauffman Foundation
Conversation with Grant Funders
March 24, 2017, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Sweeney Hall 433
Featured Speakers:
Evan Heit
Division Director
Division of Research on Learning
National Science Foundation
Wai Ying Chow
Program Director
Institute of Educational Sciences
Michael Barber and Matthew Holsapple
Program Officers
Spencer Foundation
Gilles Muller
Associate Dean of Research
SJSU
a. University resources for finding funding, including keyword search,
specialized searches, and online databases;
b. University RSCA funds and processes;
c. Federal, State, Local funding sources;
d. The variety of research and training grants;
e. Private foundations and organizations;
f. Business companies;
g. Contracts with schools and organizations.
Creating a Budget
April 28, 2017, 10:00 - 11:30 AM Sweeney Hall 433
Featured Speakers:
Rajnesh Prasad
SJSU Research Foundation
Paul McNamara
SJSU Tower Foundation
Paul Cascella
LCOE Interim Dean
LCOE Department Chairs
a. Basic budget elements and budget scaling; Direct vs. indirect costs;
b. Introduction to Tower Foundation and Research Foundation grant roles;
c. Conversations with Chairperson and Dean about budget and release time
allocations.
Contemporary Issues Related to Grant Funding
May 19, 2017, 12:00 – 2:00 PM Sweeney Hall 433
Featured Speaker:
Edith Gummer
Research Director in Education
Kauffman Foundation
Finbarr (Barry) Sloane
Program Director
Division of Research on Learning
National Science Foundation
a. The NSF/IES Common Guidelines for Educational Research;
b. Translational research;
c. Hot topics and the latest trends in education funding.