Description and Guidelines
Summer Seminars for College Teachers are designed for faculty at Network institutions, with preference for those in early stages of their careers. Each seminar will be convened by a seasoned faculty person from a Network school who will have the responsibilities of designing the seminar, recruiting twelve participants, and conducting the seminar. Each seminar will address a major issue of special concern for scholars and teachers in the church-related academy.
Participants in the seminar will read a set of common texts, engage in disciplined discussion of the seminar topic, and write on some aspect of the seminar topic. Each seminar will meet for a three or four-week period on the campus of a Network school, or for two weeks with participants returning for three or fours days at a designated additional time, typically the home institution of the seminar director.
The institution selected to host will be awarded $56,000. Institutions that have already received a grant in this category will not be eligible in the same category again for three years after the original grant was awarded.
The following sample budget recommends twelve participants receive a stipend of $2,600 to cover the cost of lodging, food, and travel, and the seminar director receive a stipend of $10,000. These recommended figures may be adjusted within the overall budget. A 10% indirect overhead cost figure should be built into each budget to cover costs of the host institution (i.e. facilities, air conditioning, lighting, etc.). Note this is a sample budget only.
| 12 participants @ $2,600 |
$31,200 |
| Seminar Director stipend |
$10,000 |
| Administrative Assistant |
$2,000 |
| Budget for additional speakers |
$3,000 |
| Texts and supplies |
$1,000 |
| Publicity |
$2,000 |
| Administrative costs |
$1,000 |
| Miscellaneous costs |
$700 |
| Subtotal |
$50,900 |
| 10% indirect overhead costs |
$5,090 |
| TOTAL |
$55,990 |
Application deadline is March 15 of each year. The seminar would be held the summer of the year following the deadline. For example, if an institution applies March 15, 2007, the seminar would be held during the summer of 2008.
Summer
Seminars previously funded
2007 - Calvin College
Biblical Studies Across the Curriculum: Discerning Scripture for the Disciplines
Coordinator: James K.A. Smith
2005 - Rosemont College
Power and the "New American Century": Christian Representation
Director - Dr. Robert Mulvihill
2004 - Baylor University
Reading Tolkien and Living the Virtues
Director - Ralph Woods, Professor of Theology and Literature
2003 - Loyola Marymount University
Peace and Justice in the Bible and the Quran
Director - Daniel Smith-Christopher, Department of Theological Studies
2002 - Whitworth College
Deliver Us From Evil: Genocide and the Christian World
Director - James Waller, Department of Psychology
2001- Mount St. Mary's College
Christian Scholars and Academic Culture
CoDirectors - William Portier, Department of Theology and John Donovan,
Department of Philosophy
2000 - Samford University
Spirituality and Social Justice: Lessons from the Civil Rights
Movement
CoDirectors - H. Hugh Floyd., Department of Sociology and Penny L.
Marler, Department of Religion and Philosophy
1999 - Calvin College
Postmodernism and the Humanities
CoDirectors - Lee Hardy, Department of Philosophy and Susan Felch, Department of English
1998 - Loyola Marymount University
Sacred Journeys: Explorations in Twentieth Century Art and Faith
Director - Judith Royer, CSJ, Theatre and Dance Department
1997 - Villanova University
The Mission of the Religiously-Affiliated University/College
and the Public Theology of Their Students
CoDirectors - Michael Scanlon, OSA, Department of Theology and Religious Studies and Barbara E. Wall, OP, Department of Philosophy
1996 - Baylor University
Contexts For Challenges
Director - James Barcus, Department of English
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Summer Seminars
Lilly Fellows Program
