Grant Overview
Involving Students
Funding Opportunties and Application
Example Proposals
List of Projects since 2007
List of Projects before 2007
Grant Overview
The Lilly Endowment, Inc., has provided a large grant to Wabash College, entrusting the college to gather and use evidence to strengthen liberal arts education. The grant is administered by the Dean of the College and the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts. As of fall 2007, the grant has supported more than 30 faculty, staff, and student projects.
Involving Students
To date, 76 percent of grant projects involve student collaborators, seek student input through surveys or interviews, or directly fund student experiences such as immersion trips or student research. Grants also have afforded students the opportunity to gain public recognition for excellent research or creativity (through the newly established Award for the Effective Use of Library Resources) or to present their own scholarly findings at national conferences.
Funding Opportunities
We invite any Wabash faculty or staff member or student to submit original proposals, either individually or as collaborative authors. As detailed in the Center of Inquiry’s grant from the Lilly Foundation, our funding opportunities include but are not limited to supporting the following:
- Lilly Teaching Fellows
- Wabash Faculty Fellows, who design and work on sabbatical liberal arts projects
- Lilly Liberal Arts Student Interns
- Development of new models of department and program reviews with a specific focus on the context in a liberal arts education
- Programs in which students (pre-college through seniors) and faculty reflect on the goals and value of a Wabash liberal arts education, their careers, and life-long learning
- Orientation in the liberal arts for pretenure colleagues (by purchasing books about the liberal arts and/or providing course release time when a faculty member teaches an all-campus course for the first time)
Applications should be submitted to Gary Phillips or Charlie Blaich. See application procedure (pdf).
Example Proposals
We have collected seven example proposals in pdf to highlight the variety of ways faculty and staff have approached their projects. The pdf includes the following proposals:
- Chemistry Department Review, Richard Dallinger and Scott Feller
- Defining the Model For an Excellent 21st-Century Liberal Arts Psychology Department, Preston Bost
- Faculty Showcase, John Lamborn
- Film in the Liberal Arts and Theater, Michelle Abbot and Theater Production and the Liberal Arts
- Indiana Classical Conference, Joseph Day
- Studying the Wabash First-Year Experience, Robert Horton and Tobey Herzog
- Urban Education & Cultural Experience for Teacher Education, Michelle Pittard and Tammy Turner-Vorbeck
Projects Enacted since 2007 (listed in alphabetical order by author, followed by department and project title):
- Michael Abbot (Theater), Film and the Liberal Arts
- Michael Axtell (Mathematics), Student/Faculty Mathematics Conference
- Preston Bost (Psychology), Defining the Model for an Excellent 21st-Century Liberal Arts Psychology Department
- Deborah Butler, M. Michelle Pittard, and Tammy Turner-Vorbeck (Teacher Education), Joint Publication of Liberal Arts and Teacher Education Monograph
- Doug Calisch (Art), Integrating Digital Media into a Liberal Arts Fine Art Department
- Richard Dallinger and Scott Feller (Chemistry), Chemistry Department Review
- Joseph Day (Classics), Indiana Classical Conference
- Gilberto Gómez-Ocampo (Modern Languages), Revista de Estudios Colombianos
- Robert Horton (Psychology) and Toby Herzog (English), Studying the Wabash First-Year Experience
- Kyle Long (Student '07), Liberal Arts Education for Men
- Kyle Long (Student '07), Summer Masculinity Seminar
- Tim Lake (MXIBS), MXIBS Scholar-In-Residence Proposal
- John Lamborn (Library), Faculty Showcase
- John Lamborn (Library), Library Coffee Bar/Lounge Proposal
- Todd McDorman, Jennifer Abbott, and David Timmerman (Rhetoric), Public Speaking as a Liberal Art
- J.D. Phillips (Mathematics), Inquiry about the Foundations of the Liberal Arts
- J.D. Phillips (Mathematics) and Mark Brouwer (Philosophy), Wabash Faculty Journal
- M Michele Pittard and Tammy Turner-Vorbeck (Teacher Education), Urban Education & Cultural Experience
- L. David Polley (Biology), Revising Biology 111 and 112
- Warren Rosenberg (English), Reading Men: Affective Learning, Masculinity, and the Liberal Arts
- Bruce Serlin (DePauw Biology), Proposal for Sabbatical Leave at the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College
- Tom Stokes (Modern Languages), Literature and the Liberal Arts
- Brian Tucker (Modern Languages), Proposal for a Course Release to Prepare to Teach a Freshman Tutorial
- Dwight Watson (Theater), Theater Production and the Liberal Arts
Projects Enacted Before 2007 (listed in alphabetical order by author, followed by department and project title):
- Tom Campbell (English), Blackboard and Liberal Arts Education: A Two-Year Study
- John Lamborn (Library), Lilly Library Research Scholarship and Creativity Awards
- Todd McDorman (Rhetoric, for the Undergraduate Research Celebration Committee), Grants for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work
- Greg Redding (Modern Languages), Lilly Teaching Fellow in Modern Languages
- Anne Taylor (Chemistry), Plant Biotechnology in St. Louis (mini-immersion trip
- Rick Warner (History), La Capital Immersion Trip
- Kay Widdows (Economics), Economics Department Review
