Innovative Partnerships to Serve Faculty Grant Writers
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PT
Speaker(s): Katie McGwin, Associate Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations and BEC Communications, University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement, Heather Johnson, Director, Writing Across URI/Teaching Professor, Department of English, University of Rhode Island
Elective Session
How can we help faculty grant writers in an increasingly competitive landscape? Faculty report that they find the process of grant applications intimidating and desire more robust support. To address this need at the University of Rhode Island (URI), the associate director of Corporate and Foundation Relations and the director of Writing Across URI collaborated on the design of an online grant writing course which provides step-by-step guidance. In this session they share their process in creating this on-demand tool, and discuss how cross-campus innovations can build an institutional culture of grant writing and streamline resources available to faculty.