COLLIN COLLEGE
STUDY GRANT PROGRAM




Spitzer, The Bookworm

Purpose and Scope

The Study Grant Program at Collin College is designed to provide support for faculty to undertake independent study of significant texts and topics in their own or related disciplines.

The program provides a stipend equivalent to two 3- credit course releases for study during either a Fall, Spring, Summer I, II, or III term.

For a full description of the program, eligibilty requirements, the application process, and the criteria for selection, click here.

The application deadline for the Fall 2010, Spring and Summer 2011 semesters is January 25, 2010.

Current Awardees

Past Recipients

Upcoming Presentations: 2008 - 2009

Next Presentation:
Donald Weasenforth (ESL), "Metaphors We Live and Die By: Using Coneptual Metaphor to Leverage Public Support for Initiation and Prosecution of the Iraq War"
November 19, 2009, SCC, I210, 1 PM


Sample Proposals

Betsy Brody (Political Science), “Transitional Justice: Balancing Peace and Justice in Post-conflict Societies”

Diana Sage (Speech Communication), "The Stories of Our Lives:  How Sensemaking, Narrative Theory and Structuration Interact"

Dan Lipscomb (Psychology), "People in Glass Houses : A Psychological Analysis of Mid-Century Modern Residential Architecture"

Wendy Gunderson (History), "The Making of Modern Iraq"

Ceilidh Charleson-Jennings (Speech Communication), "Trust Me Now:  Emergency Communication with Dementia Patients and Young Children in the Crisis Environment"

Sam Tullock (History), "American Protestants and Catholics in the Early National and Antebellum Era"

Brooke Brantley (Culinary Arts), "Thomas Jefferson: Third President and First Foodie"

Barbara Lusk (Psychology), "The Back Story of Psychology: An Examination of the Personal and Social Contexts of the Discovery Process"