[ATTW-L] Deadline Extended: CPTSC Research Grants to Promote Antiracist Programs and Pedagogies

Fri May 27 15:27:11 UTC 2022

Dear Colleagues,

We've extended the deadline for the CPTSC Research Grants to Promote
Antiracist Programs and Pedagogies
<https://cptsc.org/blog/2022/05/26/call-for-proposals-2022-cptsc-research-grants-to-promote-anti-racist-programs-and-pedagogies/>
to June 15, 2022. This important grants program, a partnership between the
CPTSC Diversity Committee and the CPTSC Grants Committee, was piloted in
2020 and approved as a permanent cycle in 2021.

Please contact Stacey Pigg (slpigg at ncstate.edu) or Joanna Schreiber (
jschreiber at georgiasouthern.edu) with any questions.

Best regards,

Laura Gonzales, CPTSC Diversity Committee Chair
Stacey Pigg and Joanna Schreiber, CPTSC Research Grants Committee Co-Chairs

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Call for Proposals: 2022 CPTSC Research Grants to Promote Anti-racist
Programs and Pedagogies

The mission of this grants program is to solicit research related to
diversity, equity, and inclusion in technical and scientific communication
programs, specifically targeting programmatic research related to
multiple-marginalized students and faculty. This grants program is a
collaboration between the CPTSC Executive Committee and the CPTSC Diversity
Committee in an effort to reaffirm CPTSC’s commitment to anti-racist
praxis.
Deadline Extended: June 15, 2022

The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
invites interested members to apply for grants of up to $2,000 to support
research that directly promotes anti-racism in technical, professional, and
scientific communication programs and pedagogies. This grant was
established by CPTSC as a first step in supporting the CPTSC Diversity
Committee's call to redress anti-Black racism in technical and scientific
communication through the CPTSC Grants Program. Read the full text of the
Diversity Committee’s call for anti-racist action here
<https://cptsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Diversity-Committee-Requests-to-CPTSC-Exec.pdf>.
CPTSC thanks Laura Gonzales, CPTSC Diversity Committee Chair, Victor Del
Hierro, and Ann Shivers-McNair for their invaluable advice in drafting this
call.

The systemic realities of racism and white supremacy are entrenched and
upheld in covert, invisible, and observable ways at the classroom, program,
and institutional levels. Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous policies and
practices harm Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) as faculty,
administrators, and students (Haas & Eble, 2018; Jones & Williams, 2018;
Williams & Pimentel, 2016). More research is needed to make visible racist
pedagogical, programmatic, and institutional practices and to promote
anti-racist practices in technical, professional, and scientific
communication programs and pedagogies. One avenue for working toward
developing anti-racist practices in technical, professional, and scientific
communication is to learn from scholars, teachers, and students working in
these areas at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and
other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) (Jones, Savage, Yu, 2014; Savage
and Matveeva, 2011; McKoy, 2019). Thus, CPTSC seeks research that goes
beyond opposing or acknowledging racism, to exposing racist practices and
providing concrete solutions for redressing racist pedagogical and
programmatic practices in the field.

CPTSC encourages proposals that investigate a discrete question addressing
racism and white supremacy across multiple programs or that recommend
anti-racist solutions that can be applied across programs. Proposals must
establish a direct application to technical, scientific, and professional
communication programs.
Areas of inquiry include:

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   Curricular analyses that promote anti-racist practices in various areas
   (e.g., a multi-site study on online teaching modes, in-depth understanding
   of courses that are common across programs, an examination of teaching
   practices and genres across institutions)
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   Faculty and professional development issues, such as the role of
   contingent faculty or issues around reappointment, promotion, and tenure
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   Anti-racist hiring and administrative practices
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   Anti-racist assessment practices
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   Anti-racist pedagogy
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   Anti-racist curriculum design
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   Recruitment and retention of students and faculty of color
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   Institutional support and culture

Proposals will be assessed via anonymized peer review. Projects led by
scholars at and projects about Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs) will be privileged for funding. Funded projects should be completed
within 12 months of award receipt.
Eligibility

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   At least one applicant per research team should be a current CPTSC
   member at time of proposal. All members of the research team must be
   current CPTSC members to receive funding. Membership information and
   application is found on the CPTSC membership page
   <https://cptsc.org/joining-cptsc/>. Please contact Joanna Schreiber (
   jschreiber at georgiasouthern.edu) if you have questions about your
   membership status or if membership poses an undue hardship.
   -

   Projects that involve non-academic community partnerships are
   encouraged, and non-academic community members do not need to be CPTSC
   members to participate.
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   No applicant may serve as a reviewer for proposals or participate in
   funding determinations.
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   Graduate student projects are eligible for funding but should list a
   faculty mentor as a co-applicant.

Organization of the Proposal

Applicants should submit a 2 to 3 page proposal (single-spaced, 12-point
font, 1-inch margins) that contains the following information:

   1.

   Cover sheet: Include applicant name(s), institutional affiliations,
   contact information for the project leader, and project abstract of no more
   than 200 words (this page does not count as part of the length
   requirements). After this cover sheet, please do not include any
   information that references your name or institution, so that entries can
   be peer reviewed without mention of names or specific institutions.
   2.

   Problem Statement: Explain the problem or question that the research
   project is attempting to solve.
   3.

   Background: Describe the significance of this question or problem by
   situating the proposed project in the context of current and previous
   program-based work in the field, drawing on field literature.
   4.

   Methodology: Outline the proposed method(s) and methodology
   5.

   Timeline: Include an annotated project timeline that notes the various
   major research activities/tasks associated with the project, including IRB
   approval if necessary. (For applicable research, funding will not be
   released until an IRB approval or exemption has been obtained and submitted
   to the grants coordinator.)
   6.

   Budget: Include an itemized project budget. Funds may be used for
   research expenses only, including materials, research assistants, travel to
   collect or analyze data, software, etc. Funds may not be used for salary,
   release time, or conference travel. Institutional overhead and indirect
   costs are not allowed. Proposals with matching or in-kind contributions are
   strongly encouraged.
   7.

   Statement: Include a statement that the researcher(s) understand and are
   willing to adhere to the requirements of the grant recipient (outlined
   below).

Criteria for Selection

Adherence to proposal guidelines

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   Membership will be verified according to the guidelines above.
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   Application should be complete.
   -

   Project was not funded in the previous award cycle.

Significance and connections to anti-racist programs and pedagogies

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   Does the proposal promote anti-racist practices in technical,
   professional, and scientific communication programs and pedagogies?
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   Does the proposal investigate a discrete question addressing racism
   and/or white supremacy?
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   Does the proposal make clear connections to existing research in the
   field?
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   Is the project innovative and original?
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   Does the project employ novel approaches, methodologies, tools, or
   technologies that will help advance knowledge and practice in the field?
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   Can the results be applied across programs and institutions?

Methods and methodology

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   Are the methods and methodology clearly explained?
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   Are the methods and methodology appropriate for the question being asked?
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   Will the research as described result in useful findings that can impact
   TPC programs and/or pedagogy?
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   Is there a clear indication that the IRB process (if appropriate) has
   been or will be completed? The committee understands that many research
   offices may be backed up after being closed for COVID-19.
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   Can this project be completed within the 12-18-month time frame?
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   If applicable, are the choices of sites and/or participants suited to
   the aims of the project and to the project’s completion?

Budget effectiveness

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   Are all costs and expenditures clearly explained?
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   Do cost and expenditures make sense for the overall aims and methods?
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   Do the project outcomes justify the project’s expenses?

Requirements of Grant Recipients

All grant recipients must agree to do the following (though requests for
extensions may be made if projects are affected by COVID-19 safety
measures):

Within 6 months of receiving research funding from CPTSC

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   Provide the CPTSC Research Grants Committee Chair with a short (1-3
   page) progress report on the status of the project at that point in time.

   -

   Reach out to the Programmatic Perspectives editor(s) to begin discussing
   the scope and approach for your final deliverable.

Within 12 months of receiving research funding from CPTSC

   -

   Complete the research project.

Within 18 months of receiving research funding from CPTSC/upon conclusion
of the project

   -

   Present research findings at the annual CPTSC conference (with an
   automatic acceptance within two years of the research award).
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   Provide the CPTSC Research Grants Director with a formal final research
   report, in the form of a research article that will be published (pending
   peer review) in the CPTSC journal Programmatic Perspectives in order to
   share this information with the organization’s membership.

Nota Bene:  Any additional publications or presentations resulting from the
research should acknowledge CPTSC grant support for the related project.
Guidance and Questions

The CPTSC Grants Committee encourages applicants to contact them to discuss
projects prior to the funding deadline. Because the committee has archives
of existing syllabi and understandings of current field practices, they can
help shape current projects and in some cases offer archival resources.
Please contact Stacey Pigg (slpigg at ncsu.edu) or Joanna Schreiber (
jschreiber at georgiasouthern.edu) if you wish to discuss your project.
Submitting the Proposal

Proposals should be received by June 15, 2022 for full consideration.
Decisions will be announced by July 31, 2022. Email proposals as .docx or
PDF attachments sent to Stacey Pigg (slpigg at ncsu.edu) and Joanna Schreiber (
jschreiber at georgiasouthern.edu).
References

Jones, N., Savage, G., & Yu, H. (2014). Tracking our progress: Diversity in
technical and professional communication programs. Programmatic
Perspectives, 6(1), 132-152.

Jones, N. N., & Williams, M. F. (2018). Technologies of disenfranchisement:
Literacy tests and black voters in the US from 1890 to 1965. Technical
Communication, 65(4), 371-386.

Haas, A. M., & Eble, M. F. (Eds.). (2018). Key theoretical frameworks:
Teaching technical communication in the twenty-first century. University
Press of Colorado.

Mckoy, T. T. (2019). Y’all call it technical and professional
communication, we call it# ForTheCulture: The use of amplification
rhetorics in black communities and their implications for technical and
professional communication studies. PhD diss., East Carolina University.

Savage, G., & Matveeva, N. (2011). Toward racial and ethnic diversity in
technical communication programs. Programmatic Perspectives, 3(1), 58-85.

Williams, M. F., & Pimentel, O. (2016). Communicating race, ethnicity, and
identity in technical communication. Routledge.

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Joanna Schreiber, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Professional and Technical Communication
Dept. of Writing and Linguistics | P.O. Box 8026
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460
Newton Bldg. 2222-C | (912) 478-5908
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