Tag: social justice

GriffinHarte Foundation grants

Grant Opportunity: Small grants ranging from $100–$1,000

Application Deadline: December 15, 2011
Contact Person: Cindy Griffin at www.griffinhartefoundation.org and Cindy@griffnhartefoundation.org

The GriffinHarte Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to promote civil conversations about issues that divide us and are often contentious and difficult to sort through. These issues usually involve questions of fairness, equity, respect, identity (who we are) and the complex ways we are connected to other people. Most importantly, they almost always are related to the very foundations of our lives-so they require that we find ways to communicate effectively about them. Because the founders of the GriffinHarte Foundation, and its members, believe that communication is one of the key elements to understanding and working with our differences, the GriffinHarte Foundation is designed to do the
following:

Support and promote conversations, research, and scholarship that are 1) grounded in questions and practices of civility and feminism; 2) informed by a desire to define, explore, and advocate for social, political, and economic justice in our professional and personal lives; 3) centered in an explicit recognition of the ways our lives and communication are influenced by our identities-our gender and sex, race and ethnicity, age and physical abilities, and education and economic standing.

Support and promote educational practices and research that are1) focused on how we teach as well as what we teach; 2) grounded in a commitment to alternative pedagogies and educational practices; 3) informed by an explicit recognition of the ways identities, genders and sex, feminisms, civility, and civic engagement relate to social, political and economic justice.

Support and promote educational opportunities as they explore identity, gender, feminism, civility, civic engagement and social, political and economic justice.

You may apply for a grant by either email or postal mail.

To apply for a grant by email attach the following documents to an email and send it to Cindy at cindy@griffinhartefoundation.org.

To apply for a grant by postal mail place the following documents in an envelope and mail it to: Cindy Griffin
444 East County Road 68
Fort Collins, Colorado 80524

Document list
Brief abstract of the project or your proposed research (500 words).
Complete description of the project or research.
Explanation of the need for the project or research.
Description of the goals and/or outcomes of the project or research.
Timeline of activities.
Detailed proposed budget.
Statement of approval from your Human Subjects Review committee, if relevant.
Your complete resumé.
Contact information for three references.
Brief biography.
Signed copies of the agreement to provide a “report of results” upon completion of the project or research.
Signed copies of the “agreement to return all grant monies” should the project or research not be carried out as stated in the grant application and approved by the Foundation.

Villanova U job

Villanova University, Department of Communication: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Organizational Communication, to begin Fall 2012. Basic requirements: Ph.D. in Communication (ABD considered; completion by August, 2012), active research program, and collegiate teaching experience. Our new colleague will teach undergraduate/graduate courses in organizational communication, qualitative or quantitative research methods, as well as other required and elective departmental courses, in a way that fosters connections across the discipline. The ideal candidate will also have research and teaching interests that demonstrate organizational communication’s potential to address issues of social conflict and/or social justice. Most application materials will be collected online, at https://jobs.villanova.edu. The only materials not accepted online are original copies of transcripts and three letters of recommendation, which can be sent directly to Dr. Sheryl Bowen, Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085-1699. Review of applications begins October 20, 2011; since preliminary interviews will be held at the NCA convention, applicants should indicate NCA availability in the cover letter.

For more detailed descriptions of the Department and its many initiatives, please consult www.communication.villanova.edu. A preview: at the undergraduate level, we are the largest major on campus, and have 8 specializations for students, one of which is Organizational Communication. Organizational Communication is also a focus of study in our thriving M.A. program, a program that has an excellent track record of sending students to Ph.D. programs. In addition, over the past year we have also added two endowed initiatives to our department: the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society and the Harron Family Endowed Chair of Communication. These efforts demonstrate our Department’s emphasis upon intellectual rigor, the teacher-scholar model, and strong collegiality–and we are seeking a new colleague who shares these values. Villanova University is a Roman Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order, located in the ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse Philadelphia metro region. An AA/EEO employer, the Communication Department values dynamic and diverse faculty members who are committed to teaching, scholarship, and service-and who can contribute to the university’s conversation regarding truth, community, values, and social justice. For more detailed descriptions of the Department and its many initiatives, please consult www.communication.villanova.edu.