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Monday, May 16, 2011

National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Invites Research Applications- Deadline July 1, 2011

From Philanthropy News Digest:
National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Invites Research Applications
Based at the University of South Carolina, the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition works to support and advance efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and through higher education.
The center's Paul P. Fidler Research Grant is designed to encourage the development and dissemination of knowledge that has the potential to improve the experiences of college students in transition. The grant competition is open to faculty, staff, and graduate students who plan to conduct research on issues of college student transitions. Cross-institutional research teams are encouraged to apply.
The grant award includes a cash stipend of $5,000; travel to the Eighteenth National Conference on Students in Transition (November 2011), at which the award will be presented; travel to the Nineteenth National Conference on Students in Transition (November 2012), at which the winner's research findings will be reported; award announcement on the National Resource Center Web page and in print publications; and priority consideration for publication by the National Resource Center.
Complete program guidelines and the application form are available at the National Resource Center Web site.


Link to RFP: http://sc.edu/fye/research/grant/index.html

FIPSE's FY 2011 Comprehensive Program Competition Has Been Cancelled

"The FY 2011 Comprehensive Program of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) has been cancelled. For more information, please go to the Applicant Information page for the Comprehensive Program, which can be found at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/fipsecomp/applicant.html.



Interest in FIPSE and its Comprehensive Program is much appreciated. Despite the Comprehensive Program’s cancellation, FIPSE encourages continued efforts toward improving educational practice at the postsecondary level."