Application for Bush Faculty Development Funds
Assessment Activities
Deadline for Proposals: March 30, 2004



Please attach a 1-2 page proposal* that addresses each of the following:

1. The purpose of the grant.  Specifically, how will the grant advance the assessment of student learning, and enhance the department's efforts to provide feedback for the advancement of the program/major?








2. How do the activities of this grant proposal relate to the department's assessment plan?  If the grant is to develop the assessment plan, please indicate such.







3.  A budget which includes a brief explanation of the proposed expenditures. (attach)



4.  A timeline which includes an implementation phase.





5.  How does the proposal relate to one of the four major goals of the Bush Faculty Development Grant?


Goal 1.     In what ways have we achieved better understanding of student teacher relationships and their significance to learning?

Goal 2. In what ways have we further explored our identity as a college? In what ways have we enriched the dialogue on  vocation and the implications for learning?

Goal 3. In what ways have we explored and applied familiar and unfamiliar enhancements of the teacher student relationship?

Goal 4.In what ways have we enhanced assessment of student learning? How can we apply that to the curriculum?

6. Would you consider doing the project should your requested amount of funding need to be reduced?




*  All proposals will be reviewed by the Augustana Assessment Committee.
    Submit proposals to: John Clementson
                                     216 Madsen Center

Approval Required of:

Department Chair _______________________

Assessment Director _____________________