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Application Guidelines
The Mellon Foundation grant to Amherst, Grinnell, Oberlin, Pomona, Reed,
Smith, Wesleyan, and Williams provides funds to support workshops designed and
organized by faculty members on scholarly and pedagogical topics. Tenured and tenure-
track faculty members from these institutions may propose workshops to be held either
during the summer or during the academic year. The workshops may be relatively small.
For example, six Latin Americanists from Amherst, Pomona, Wesleyan and Williams
might gather for three days to discuss the latest trends in that field and how those trends
have had an impact on teaching about Latin America. The cost of the workshop might be
$5,000. A larger workshop on environmental science, for example, might include a
number of speakers and participants from outside the Mellon consortium with an overall
budget for the workshop of $25,000.
The proposals will be reviewed by the Deans and Provosts of the Mellon
consortium. Two or three workshops, depending on the overall budget, will be selected
for full development and funding. Priority will be given to proposals that are planned
jointly by several faculty from two or more of the Mellon colleges, that foster
collaboration among the Mellon colleges, and that might lead to sustained interactions in
scholarship or pedagogy among faculty at those institutions.
The proposal should contain the following items:
a description of the proposed workshop, its rationale and intended audience,
its schedule and format, and its intended impact-- no more than 500 words
a list of the faculty members who will be the workshop leaders and other
faculty members who will assist in the detailed planning of the workshop
a preliminary budget, which may support the following:
-- a modest stipend ($1000) for the primary workshop organizer(s)
-- travel and accommodation expenses for faculty participants from the Mellon colleges
-- travel and accommodation expenses and a modest stipend for speakers from
outside the Mellon consortium
-- accommodation expenses for participants from outside the Mellon consortium
-- modest staff support for organizing the logistics (hotel space, etc.) for the workshop
-- administrative expenses (mailing of notices, duplication of conference materials, etc.)
The proposal should be submitted to the Dean's Office by 5:00 Monday following fall break. We
recommend that you have a brief conversation with Jim Swartz about the proposed
workshop before developing the proposal to assure that the workshop theme fits the
framework of the Mellon grant.
Post-Award Requirement: The workshop leaders are required to submit a report (250-
500 words) summarizing the results of the workshop and its impact on faculty in the
Mellon consortium. This report is to be sent to the provost or dean within three months
of the end of the workshop.
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