From President Frank H. Wu:
The
Queens College 2021–2026 Strategic Plan has been formulated with the help of many Queens College stakeholders, including faculty, students, alumni, staff, members of the Queens College Foundation, and Queens community members. Through an inclusive process including 11 town halls with over a thousand participants, we have developed a plan that will guide Queens College to a brighter future and enable it to provide its students with the best possible education in a welcoming environment.
The plan is the result of a year-long process that began in Fall 2020 and thus coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. Though all meetings and town halls were conducted over Zoom, we successfully engaged deeply in discussions about our core purpose and the values we hold dear. For the framework of this plan, we envisioned the future state we wanted to accomplish in five core areas of our work and what it will take to get there.
As part of the advancement of our strategic plan, we are pleased to call for proposals for the Queens College Strategic Plan Implementation Grant (SPIG) 2022. Six grants of $5,000 each will be awarded to initiatives that specifically aim to achieve Queens College’s vision in the coming year. Each group must be led by a faculty or staff member. Initiatives may focus on one or more areas of the plan. Each initiative must be achievable within the 2022-2023 academic year. The grant may be combined with other funding for a larger initiative, but all funding must be identified and in hand when applying for this grant. The grant application deadline is February 4, 2022.
Requirements:
- Must come from a department or group of any combination of Queens College faculty, staff and/or students;
- Must have a lead contact that is a faculty, staff or administrator responsible for submission, managing, and reporting on the grant; and
- Must include all of the requested information on this form*. (You must be signed into Microsoft 365 to complete this form; use your CUNYfirst credentials.)
Timeline for SPIG Grants:
December 1, 2021 – Strategic Plan Initiative Grant announced
February 4, 2022 – SPIG applications due
April 4, 2022 – SPIG awards announced
September 9, 2022 – Initial 2022-23 Plan due
January 23,2023 – Mid-year report due (If funds have not been spent and plans are not moving, funding will be rescinded and redistributed to grants that have made progress.)
May 12, 2023 – End-of-year report due
Selection criteria
- Composition of team 4 points
- Relates to QC Values (1 point per) 6 points
- Service and Civic Engagement
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Well-Rounded Education
- Culture of Mutual Support
- Innovative Leadership Goal
- Connecting Scholarship and Creativity with the Student Experience
- Relates to QC's Goal (1 point per) 5 points
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goal
- Faculty Scholarship and Creativity: Interconnected with teaching, learning, and student success goal
- Fiscal Sustainability: Mission and values-aligned goal
- Student Success and Student Life: A community of care in support of student success goal
- Addresses strategies identified in the Plan Framework (1 point per category) 5 points
- Thoroughness of plan as outlined in the Executive summary 10 points
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Total possible points: 30 points
Selection committee:
To be announced
*Information required:
1. Name of the grant lead (required)
2. Grant lead's academic or administrative department (required)
3. Grant lead's email address (required)
4. Grant lead's telephone number (required)
5. Please
upload your SPIG Team list (Please use the
link to download the
SPIG information Excel spreadsheet with the required information, rename it SPIG and the grant leads last name, and upload it to your grant application.)
(required)
6. Executive Summary (Please be thorough addressing the work you will undertake, how this initiative advances the QC Strategic Plan, and what outcome measurements will be used to assess the success of this initiative. This should be 1 to 2 pages.) (required)
7. Proposed Budget (Please use tab 2 of the SPIG information Excel spreadsheet. If the budget exceeds $5,000 you must indicate the source of all funds above that amount.) (required)
8. Which values does this initiative relate to (select all that apply) (required)
a. Service and Civic Engagement
b. QC's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
c. Well-Rounded Education
d. Culture of Mutual Support
e. Innovative Leadership Goal
f. Connecting Scholarship and Creativity with the Student Experience
9. Which goal or goals does this initiative relate to (select all that apply) (required)
a. QC Curriculum: An integrated, interdisciplinary, experiential academic foundation
b. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A more diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture at QC
c. Faculty Scholarship and Creativity: Interconnected with teaching, learning, and student success goal
d. Fiscal Sustainability: Mission and values-aligned
e. the QC Student Success and Student Life: A community of care in support of student success
10. How does this initiative relate to the strategies identified for the QC Curriculum: An integrated, interdisciplinary, experiential academic foundation goal (Chose all that apply – not required)
11. How does this initiative relate to the strategies identified for QC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A more diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture at QC goal (Chose all that apply – not required)
12. How does this initiative relate to the strategies identified for the QC Faculty Scholarship and Creativity: Interconnected with teaching, learning, and student success goal (Chose all that apply – not required)
13. How does this initiative relate to the strategies identified for the QC Fiscal Sustainability: Mission and values-aligned goal (Chose all that apply – not required)
14. How does this initiative relate to the strategies identified for the QC Student Success and Student Life: A community of care in support of student success goal (Chose all that apply – not required)
15. Estimated timeline for this initiative (Please use tab 3 of the SPIG information Excel spreadsheet.)
