2007 institute course

[Emily M. Bender]

Hi Heidi,

The 2007 institute will be somewhat different in format
from previous years, and as another innovation, they have
issued an open call for course proposals:

http://linginst07.stanford.edu/cfp.html

That page states: 

 Faculty who teach at the 2007 institute will each receive a living
 stipend, and reasonable travel costs. To supplement these, we are
 seeking additional funds to provide a modest honorarium, per course.

and also: "An explicit rationale should be provided if more than 2
instructors are proposed."

Emily

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:46:58PM -0600, Heidi Johnson wrote:
> OK, this is the last one. Jeff and others really think that we should do a
> 
> course in preparing archival-quality language documentation materials at
> 
> the LSA Summer Institute, June-July 2007,  at Stanford. 
> 
>  
> 
> Jeff & Helen & I worked up a trial proposal last year, for a 3-week course
> 
> that would overlap with a one-week EMELD workshop. I'm attaching it so
> 
> y'all can review it, if you want. This time we would do a 3-week course that
> 
> overlaps with a 2-day conference having something to do with endangered
> 
> languages - I forgot what Jeff said about that part, but there is some sort
> 
> of plan afoot for that already.
> 
>  
> 
> We would need funds for teachers - travel & lodging & per diems, at least -
> 
> so we will have to submit a proposal to NSF Linguistics, due July 15th,
> which
> 
> means it has to be written and ready by June 15th (!). So we need to get
> 
> busy if we're really going to do this.
> 
>  
> 
> First we need a committee of 3-4 people to work on this: plan the course,
> write
> 
> the proposal, organize the actual events. We should have someone who can
> host 
> 
> the grant at their institution - not me!! (Sponsored projects at UT are
> getting horribly 
> 
> backlogged - it would be way too hard to do our accounting here, trust me.)
> But I'm 
> 
> willing to do the other parts, and I'm pretty sure Jeff is willing, too - so
> we need 2 
> 
> more volunteers.
> 
>  
> 
> Second we need an outline of the course & conference, and a tentative list
> of
> 
> teachers. Probably we should list teachers + alternates or something like
> that.
> 
> Then we can do a rough budget that tells us what kind of $$ we're talking
> about.
> 
> Then we can write to Joan Maling to get her advice about coordinating this
> kind
> 
> of a collaborative grant - I've never done anything across several
> institutions.
> 
> Then we try to get some people to sort of commit their time for a year ahead
> 
> and wring letters of support from them. THEN we can write the actual
> proposal
> 
> and do the budget and all that jolly stuff. 
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>  
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> What say you, outreachers? Any volunteers? Anyone have experience with this
> 
> kind of multi-institution conference sort of grant?
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>  
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> Heidi
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