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APA Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) Block Grants In Support of Precollege and Undergraduate Teaching Conferences
To enhance the quality of teaching and learning outcomes, the Board of Educational Affairs reviews proposals for financial support to award $5,000 in BEA Block Grants each year.
Criteria
To be considered for funding, applications must meet the following criteria:
- the conference must advance the teaching of psychology at the secondary,
- 2-year, and/or 4-year level;
- the conference must be directed by an APA member, associate, or affiliate
- the grant must be requested by an APA member, associate, or affiliate; and
- the grant must be used to offset travel expenses of selected conference participants, registration fees of conference participants, and/or speaker fees.
It is possible that conferences that have received block grants two years in a row may not be funded or may be funded at lower levels on the third consecutive application to ensure that a variety of conferences receive grants..
Proposals for block grants will be reviewed and evaluated according to the following criteria:
Conference Goals and Activities: Proposals will be rated on the perceived importance and innovativeness of the conference as well as the clarity and completeness of the description of the conference objectives and activities. (A conference announcement/ brochure should be submitted with the application.)
Composition of Target Audience:Proposals will be rated on the potential impact and suitability of content for the target audience.
Budgetary Information:Proposals will be rated on the clarity and completeness of the description of the conference budget, anticipated expenses, as well as confirmed and anticipated sources and amounts of funding.
Following the evaluation of the proposals, the BEA Block Grants Subcommittee will recommend monetary awards based on the availability of funds and on the quality of the applications. *
Applicants may be awarded up to $1,000 during a given year. If fewer than five acceptable applications are received in a given year, the BEA may award more than one block grant (and more than $1,000) to the same conference in that year.
Deadline
Funding requests for teaching conferences in 2008 should be postmarked by February 4, 2008. Please send written requests to Martha Boenau, Education Directorate at the APA Address or via Email.
National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Psychology: Blueprint for the Discipline’s Future - Call for National Conference Participants
The National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Psychology will be held on the beautiful campus of University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington from Sunday, June 22 to Friday, June 27, 2008. The goal of the conference is to examine critical issues and concerns in undergraduate education and the important changes that have occurred since our last conference on undergraduate education in June 1991.
The American Psychological Association’s Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) Steering Committee for the National Conference invites applications for participants. Most expenses for the conference will be covered by the University of Puget Sound, APA, and other sources. We will cover all room costs, most food expenses, and local transportation to and from the airport. We hope that each participant’s institution will pay travel costs, but limited funding is available to assist participants who cannot cover their own travel costs. We encourage applications from the wide range of institutions that offer undergraduate education or provide linkages to undergraduate education, such as high schools, graduate and professional schools, and employers.
Applicants are invited to complete the application process on-line at www.apa.org/ed.htmlwhere you will find a place to describe your background or interests in undergraduate psychology, including high school and post-graduate linkages, your preferences for a topic of special interest to you, and other relevant information. We are planning for approximately 64 participants (plus consultants) who represent the diversity in undergraduate education.
All applications must be received by November 15, 2007. If you have any questions about the National Conference on Undergraduate Psychology or the application process, please contact Martha Boenau via Email or Education Directorate, at the APA Address.
APA Psychology Department Program (2007-2008)
APA’s Psychology Department Program provides access to the APA’s many teaching and advising publications as well as subscriptions to APA magazines and newsletters for departments at a price of $300.00 per year. The 2007-2008 program includes the new editions of Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You; Getting In: A Step-by-Step Plan for Gaining Admission to Graduate School in Psychology; Graduate Study in Psychology: 2008, the Careers in Psychology video, three complimentary student affiliate memberships, in addition to subscriptions to the Monitor, gradPSYCH, the Psychology Teacher Network, and The Educator. Your department can also receive PDP-NEWS, an online news source for psychology faculty and students. APA also provides a link to participating psychology departments on the APA Web site. For more information, visit www.apa.org/ed/pcue/psydeptprog.html.
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