<div>Linda,</div>
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<div>1. Are these workshops needed?_X_Yes____No<br>2. Will you attend both workshops?__X__Yes____No<br>3. Is June the best date for you?__X__Yes____No<br>4. Would you attend if they were offered in September?_X___Yes____No<br>
<br>September is a better time for me.<br> </div>
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<div>Susan Foster<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mason, Linda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmason@osrhe.edu">lmason@osrhe.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I have been asked to lead a Sponsored Programs Administrator professional development session on <u>Advanced Grantsmanship: Structuring Research Grants</u> on June 10 and <u>Advanced Grantsmanship: Structuring Educational Evaluation Programs</u> on June 11. </span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Structuring Research Grants</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> – This session would be an exploration of the structure of a research grant (as opposed to a program grant). Models of successful grants to NSF and NIH will be used. Resources will include the following:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Kenneth Henson’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">GRANT WRITING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, </span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Lloyd Fricker’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">How to Write a REALLY Bad Grant Application (and Other Helpful Advice for Scientists),</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Webster’s New World <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Grant Writing Handbook, </span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Making the Right Moves,</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">EPSCoR’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Writing from the Winner’s Circle,</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the NSF’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Grant Proposal Guide, January 2010</span></i> (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf10_1/index.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf10_1/index.jsp</a>),</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the National Cancer Institute’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Everything You Wanted to Know About the NCI Grants Process But Were Afraid to Ask,</span></i> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">William Gerin’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Writing the NIH Grant Proposal, </span></i>and <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Russell and Morrison’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">the Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, </span></i>published by the National Institutes of Health<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">.</span></i></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Structuring Research Grants workshop will be from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm with a break for lunch. The afternoon will be spent in critiquing sample research proposals. </span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Structuring Educational Evaluation Programs – </span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This session will be an overview of a program evaluation approach to any project, specifying the formats of descriptions to be included in a program grant proposal and a research grant proposal, and analyzing the differences. Resources will include the following: </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Patrick Miller’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Grant Writing: Strategies for Developing Winning Proposals,</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Smith and Tremore’s<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Everything Grant Writing Book,</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Alexis Black’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Getting Grants,</span></i> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the US Department of Education’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Compendium of Student, Teacher, and Classroom Measures Used in NCEE Evaluations of Educational Interventions</span></i> (</span></font><a href="http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104012/index.asp" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104012/index.asp</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">), </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the US Department of Education’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Practice Guide: Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making </span></i>(</span></font><a href="http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/dddm_pg_092909.pdf" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/dddm_pg_092909.pdf</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">), </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">April Bender’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Reinvesting in youth: Strategies and Funding, and</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Krista Shumacher’s <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Foundations of Grant Development. </span></i></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Structuring Educational Evaluation Programs will be from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. The last hour will be spent in critiquing sample evaluation plans taken from grant proposals.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>1.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Are these workshops needed?____Yes____No</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>2.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Will you attend both workshops?____Yes____No</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>3.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Is June the best date for you?____Yes____No</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>4.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Would you attend if they were offered in September?____Yes____No</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If you have other information to offer or questions to ask, please let me know. If you want to register for both or either workshop, also let me know that. There will be no fee, but you must register to attend. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thanks! I look forward to hearing from you. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="4" face="Monotype Corsiva"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype Corsiva'; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Linda Mason, Ed.D.</span></font></b></strong></p>
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