We will provide reimbursement of documented expenses from $200-$400 per person for groups of two-to-four people to support travel, food, shared lodging, such as short-term apartment or house rentals, and other related costs as appropriate to life situations. The mileage reimbursement will be limited to $100 per participant.
Funding priority will go to groups with at least one member engaged in humanistic research and to those planning a retreat within reasonable driving distance of Grinnell, but we will consider other proposals. As appropriate, we will also consider proposals that include non-Grinnell faculty and/or staff.
In your proposals, we would like to (briefly) hear:
- What you would like to work on over a two-to-three-day retreat. Be sure to briefly present a plan for each person that is meaningful yet achievable as appropriate to the stage of a given project and that leaves time for building community through shared activities. Each person ought to be thinking about what will be most helpful to connect or reconnect with nourishing work.
- How your group will support each other’s work, whether by building in intentional planning conversations, brainstorming, reading each other’s writing and offering feedback, or other forms of engagement appropriate to the kind of work each member hopes to do on retreat.
- What your group will do to be in community apart from work. Will you cook together? Share meals? Go on walks or exercise?
Our review of proposals is not about evaluating the value of what you seek to accomplish, what forms of intellectual engagement in which you will engage, or how your group intends to be in community. We want to see that your group is approaching the retreat with intention. The proposal is as much about helping you plan as it is for our review.
Writing Retreat funding is available to all faculty and staff seeking to connect with scholarly or affinity-based professional communities through research.