CCCU's Initiative Grants Encourage Networking, Christian-Based Research
The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities is calling upon Christian scholars to apply for a program encouraging and expanding Christian-based research beyond the realm of Christian academia.
The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities is calling upon Christian scholars to apply for Initiative Grants – a program encouraging and expanding Christian-based research beyond the realm of Christian academia.
As an international association of more than 170 institutions of higher education, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) grants annual awards to groups of faculty and students involved in research with a Christian perspective. Established by Walter Hansen in memory of parents Ken and Jean Hansen, the Initiative Grants to Network Christian Scholars provides $15,000 of funding over a period of three years.
The program encourages groups of Christian scholars to network and collaborate on research with a Christian faith perspective. In granting awards, CCCU seeks projects that allow both individual and collaborative scholarly development, and that will be disseminated to the larger academic community beyond the Christian circle, thereby bringing Christian perspectives into the secular realm of academia.
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Research teams may include both faculty and students, with at least 2 to 3 faculty from CCCU member institutions. Proposals are evaluated based on academic merit and significance, clarity of proposed methods and concepts, the experience of research team members, potential benefit to team members, and dissemination of research results to “high-quality academic venues beyond the Christian Academy.”
Past projects include studies of specific writers and their influence on religion and society, the role of forgiveness in the social development of children, and the role of religion in U.S. politics and history.
Pamela Corpron Parker, director of a project titled “Gender, Genre, and Faith: Religion and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer,” commented on the positive relationships built through the initiative.
“Our greatest benefit came not only through our intellectual and professional collaborations but also through the deepened friendships nurtured through our time together,” said Parker, who is a faculty member at Whitworth College.
“These friendships were based as much on shared faith commitments as they were grounded in the common experiences of our professional lives.”
Applications for current grants are due on February 1, 2006. For more information, contact Dr. Harold Heie, Program Director for CCCU Initiative Grants: hheie@orangecitycomm.net.
