Associate Professor Paula Groves Price, the Huie-Rogers Faculty Fellow for Diversity Education. Her research connects academic achievement, social activism, and engagement in the arts.
The research being done at the WSU College of Education shapes the economic and social future of the state of Washington. It also makes us better teachers and role models. So it's vital that we hire and retain innovative, productive and passionate faculty. To do so, we must be able to provide flexible funding that allows them to do significant research and have opportunities for professional advancement. Private donations are crucial to that effort.
You can help by contributing to either faculty awards or faculty fellowships, described below. For more information, please phone Kim Holapa or Carly Young at 509-335-7843, or donate on-line to the Dean's Fund for Excellence. Want to find a researcher whose interests match your own? Then see our list of research topics. Your gift can help foster new knowledge and make a real difference for the WSU College of Education and the many people it serves.
Faculty funding awards
These are grants of up to $5,000 awarded to a faculty member or $8,000 to a team of faculty to support research initiatives. The awards are created from a pooled source of funds that includes gifts of private donors. In particular, the grants promote the efforts of junior faculty, encouraging them in their work toward tenure and to remain at WSU.
These grants often cover the costs associated with research collection, data analysis and, eventually, publication and presentation/dissemination. They provide faculty the money (which otherwise might come out of their own pocket) needed to pursue new lines of research or explore issues they have been thinking about for some time. The awards also provide opportunity for our faculty to become players on the international education stage, building relationships that would otherwise be difficult.
Gifts of all sizes will help us continue the tradition of excellence that the faculty funding awards represent. Contributors of $500 and above are named Dean's Associates, and their gifts are matched by other college funds.
Faculty fellowships
A faculty fellowship is an award for outstanding faculty and may be used to retain faculty headed for prominence (that is, those most likely to be approached by competing institutions). A fellowship provides salary supplements and research support. Contribution: $10,000 per year for five years.
A faculty fellowship endowment would provide annual funding of $10,000 in perpetuity. An endowment provides long-range support for faculty work. Contribution: $250,000.
What our faculty researchers say
“Overall the faculty funding award is of
tremendous value to the research mission of the
College. It was a catalyst for finishing my
project, it gave me the opportunity to present at an
international conference…it was invaluable to
making the project a realization, and getting the
exposure it needed and deserved.”—Associate
Professor Michael
Hayes
“I purchased 8 laptops which students used
to type their narrative stories with the help of
assistive technology. This grant funded a
component of my research which other grants don’t
fund. If I had not received this award, I would
not have been able to do my research
project.”—Assistant Professor
Michael Dunn
“These funding opportunities have been
critical. As I examine my vita, almost every
publication can be traced back to one of the funding
awards through this program. I greatly appreciate the
opportunities it has provided. My current work on a
state grant has resulted from this year’s faculty
funding awards and others provided in other
years.”-- Associate
Professor Amy Roth McDuffie