Two grants of $3,000 each are available for faculty at Duke and UNC to add Middle East content to an existing course or develop a new Middle East-related course. These grants are available only for 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. Recipients of these grants pledge to teach the course at least twice by the end of the 2013-2014 academic year.
A small pool of $5,000 per year ($2,500 each for Duke and UNC) is available to subsidize faculty research travel, with a preference for pilot projects leading to external grant applications.
A small pool of $4,000 is available to support Duke and UNC language instructors' participation in pedagogical training prograns with the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), in order to increase language teaching proficiency on our campuses.
Please send the following materials to by December 10, 2010.
The funds must be expended by August 15, 2011, and the recipient's report on the outcome of the grant (1-2 pages, plus a syllabus for the course development grant) is due to mideast@unc.edu by August 31, 2011.
