Maximum award: $2000

Deadline: Applications must be received electronically by ARI Administrator Christina Waters by 5 p.m. on April 20, 2012

• A. Eligibility.

Proposals will be accepted from individual ladder faculty members in the Arts Division. Groups (including FRAs) are not eligible to apply. Additionally, faculty who receive an individual Major Project Grant (see IIC below) will not be awarded a Mini-Grant in the same academic year. Individuals who participate in a collaborative Major Project Grant (IID) may receive a mini-grant as well.

• B. Concurrent application to COR.

In order to qualify for a Faculty Mini-Grant, the applicant must also apply for funding to the Academic Senate's Committee on Research in the same year. The two applications should seek support for different projects or different components of the same project.

• C. Size of the grants.

Mini-grants are limited to a maximum of $2000 a year per faculty member; priority is given to junior faculty. Since the total funding to the Division is not large and the number of ladder faculty members increases each year, faculty are urged to apply only for the amount of support needed. The application form will direct faculty to detail specific expenses. Some proposals may receive partial support. (Total funding in this category is approximately $45,000 for the entire Arts Division.)

• D. Application deadline and award notification.

Applications for mini-grants must be received by April 20, 2012 at 5 p.m. for projects that commence July 1 of the same calendar year. Individuals will be informed of decisions in May. Late or incomplete applications will not be forwarded to the committee. (Off-cycle contingency funding may occasionally be available if there are surplus research funds.)

• E. Evaluation criteria.

The ARI Executive Committee distributes mini-grant funds widely. As the number of faculty in the division increases, however, the Committee may not be able to fund all proposals, or may need to fund some proposals at less than the requested level. Faculty should provide detailed budgets and carefully justify all expenses. Support will be given for specific research/creative projects in any of the arts; the ARI does not support teaching activities. In the project description on the application form, the applicant should detail the specific anticipated outcome of the grant and should specify how the proposed project relates to the overall direction of his/her research and productivity. The committee will consider the quality of the proposal and its potential contribution to the field, as well as the faculty member's record of publication, exhibition, production, or other creative work.

• F. Timeline for project completion.

Mini-grants support projects beginning July 1 of the application year and scheduled for completion by June 30 of the following year. Faculty may apply for funding to support a discreteportion of a longer-term project, but will be expected to achieve concrete results by the end of the one-year grant period. Funding will not be carried over from year to year. However, since projects often reach completion during the summer, awarded funds will remain available until September 30, at which time any unspent funds will automatically revert to the ARI.

• G. New faculty.

  The ARI executive committee will attempt to reserve some funds at the end of the academic year to support new UCSC ladder faculty joining the Arts Division the following Fall. These new faculty members may apply for such funds at the beginning the Fall quarter. Award limits will be the same as those for continuing faculty members.

Download Mini-Grant Application