Gustavus Adolphus College | Intercultural Development Grants
Grant Funding Season: June 1, 2016, to May 31, 2017*
Grant Applications due by email: 11:59 pm, Sunday, April 24, 2016
**Note: Grant funding and grant awards will be contingent on approval of the CICE departmental unrestricted
budget by the College administration and the Board of Trustees.
Grant amounts. Grant amounts will range up to $3,000 per award, though smaller requests will be
considered, too, in order to maximize the impact of this funding program. Grant applicants are
expected to submit a trip itinerary and budget, as described below.
Grant Description. For the 2016-17 academic year (including summer 2016), the Center for
International and Cultural Education (CICE) plans to award modest grants to support travel of
Gustavus faculty members (and administrators with teaching credentials) for the purpose of
intercultural program development and intercultural professional development.
Grant funding must be used to support travel costs for trips arranged in order to explore options
for a new intercultural program or to gain intercultural professional development. Grants can help
fund a visit to a single site or to multiple sites within one country or world region. Domestic sites
are also allowed, within the limitations given below.
Supported activities include:
 Developing new faculty-led study away courses/programs, whether for J-term, summer, or
semester-length offerings
 In the case of existing programs that offer multiple options of study site for Gustavus
students (e.g., study away student teaching placements for education majors), developing
new sites that are located in new countries or in new U.S. states
 Developing new exchange programs for incoming and outgoing students (and faculty,
where possible); exchanges can be bilateral (Gustavus exchanging students with one other
institutional partner) or multilateral (broader networks of institutions sharing the burden of
incoming and outgoing exchange balances, e.g., six Lutheran liberal arts colleges in the
Midwest exchanging with a network of five Catholic universities in Peru and Bolivia)
 Developing joint and/or dual degree programs or other inter-institutional curricula
 Attending North America-based conferences, workshops, or training events that aim to
enhance the intercultural competencies of attendees or to provide training in pedagogies or
approaches for intercultural teaching
 Attending similar conferences, workshops, or trainings held in international settings only as
an addition to an existing international trip funded through other sources
Excluded activities. Grant funds may not be used to pay for:
 Travel from Minnesota to attend any conference outside of North America
 Attending conferences that are not expressly related to intercultural professional
development
 Re-development work on existing programs at existing sites (unless the re-development
amounts to an overhaul so dramatic that it effectively ushers in a new program)
 Research
 Student travel
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Travel to develop non-credit bearing programs (e.g., athletics tours, non credit-bearing
community-based or service learning, non credit-bearing internships, etc.)
Eligibility. Faculty members and administrators who hold appropriate credentials to teach
Gustavus courses and who are in their second or higher year on the faculty by fall 2016. Prospective
applicants with specific eligibility questions should contact Roger Adkins in CICE.
Qualifying expenses. Qualifying expenses include:
 round-trip travel costs (airfare, baggage costs, ground transportation, lowest-cost airport
parking);
 appropriate per diem, which includes the actual costs of lodging and meals during the
exploratory or professional-development period, up to but not exceeding the published
federal per diem rates (or the conference lodging rates at the official conference site); and
 on-the-ground costs related directly to programmatic research or the professionaldevelopment activity (e.g., admissions to cultural or historic sites under review for the
program proposal, reasonable travel costs within the region that is related to possible
program activities, etc.).
Program provider stipulation. Applicants seeking to develop a new faculty-led program must
intend to work with one of the College’s approved program providers or another agency willing
and able to provide the same level of services and to sign a formal contract to that effect with GAC.
Providers generally handle all on-site logistics, including housing for faculty/staff and students,
classroom/lab/studio space, wifi access, all on-site excursions and travel (admissions, fees, guides,
tips for guides, etc.), all guest speakers and local instructors, any full group meals, usually some of
the other student meals (e.g., breakfast in hotels or hostels), and other direct, on-site costs.
Priorities. There are several priorities for funding to be dispersed through this grant program, as
described below. These priorities are given in no particular order, and applicants who are
otherwise eligible but whose proposals do not comply with any of these priorities may still apply.
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Applications that document matching funds from the applicant’s home department,
personal research funds, in-kind contributions on the site, or other source(s).
Applications aiming to establish programs in countries or regions in which Gustavus has
little or no current study away programming. In particular, proposals to establish programs
in the College’s current top destination countries will be less likely to succeed: Denmark,
France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, and the UK.
Applications from faculty members in disciplines that have not frequently or recently
sponsored J-Term study away courses.
Applications leading to proposals that will significantly increase the accessibility of studying
away for Gustavus students, with particular emphasis on students of limited economic
means (i.e., lower-cost programs) and students in underrepresented populations (e.g.,
students from minority backgrounds, students with disabilities, students in sequential
majors, LGBTQ students, and men).
Applications for professional-development activities from individuals who have not recently
received similar funding from the CICE or the Kendall Center.
Application instructions. There is no application form for this grant program. Instead, applicants
must submit the items listed below by the deadline. Submissions will be accepted by email only.
Please send them, with all attachments included in one single email with the subject line
“INTERCULTURAL GRANT APPLICATION,” to the attention of Roger Adkins. The items to submit
include:
 Grant application letter (<500 words). The grant application letter should tell us both about
your background and qualifications and about the activity you propose.
 Proposer background. Please identify yourself and your department or unit. Describe
your teaching history at the College (and elsewhere). Describe your academic
background and areas of specialization. If you are proposing a grant to develop a
new faculty-led study away program, please also describe any prior experience
leading a faculty-led program (domestic or international).
 Proposed activity. Please briefly describe the activities you intend to pursue. The
most general level of information is useful here: term and approximate dates of
proposed activity; type of activity; topic/theme; goals; target population (if a new
program).
 Requested amount. Please specify the amount of funding requested and identify any
matching funds and amounts. Where appropriate, please include a letter (email) of
support from a department head or other official.
 Proposed itinerary. Please describe the tentative itinerary of the proposed travel. We
understand that you may not have made definitive travel arrangements, but please describe
what you intend to do. A brief summary will suffice.
 Budget. Please include a brief budget for the proposed travel. The only expenses that you
should include are those listed under “Qualifying expenses” above. Please exclude costs for
other travel objectives that may be pursued during the same trip (e.g., academic research,
attending an academic conference, personal travel, etc.). Please itemize your budget, using
the cost categories given above, and provide a projected total. At the bottom of the budget,
please identify your proposed sources of funding, including the amount requested under
this grant program, other amounts requested or secured (including the value of any known
in-kind contributions such as nights of complimentary housing or hosted meals), and any
other sources.
Grant decisions and procedures. A committee will determine the grant recipients and grant
amounts. The committee is comprised of two faculty and one student from the Global Engagement
Committee and the CICE director. The faculty members who serve on this committee may not seek
grant funding in this cycle. We anticipate announcing decisions about requested grant funding by
May 6, 2016*. Travel will be self-arranged using Gustavus procurement (Wells Fargo) cards, with
charges assigned to the appropriate CICE index for program development.
Post-grant responsibilities. Grantees are expected to submit, within six months of return from the
trip, either: (a) a completed new program proposal; or (b) a brief narrative report on the outcome
of the grant-funded activity. Specific instructions will be provided to grant awardees.
*Because this newly formalized CFP is launching late in this first year, applicants may want to propose
travel for July 1, 2o16, or later, to leave adequate time for purchasing reasonable airfares. In future years,
this program will launch in fall with a deadline in early spring semester, and earlier notification of awards.