{"id":11123,"date":"2020-04-07T10:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=11123"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:05:57","slug":"covid-19-mini-grant-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2020\/04\/11123\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 mini-grant\u00a0wrap up\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brown Center would<\/span>\u00a0like to thank everyone who has participated with our\u00a0<\/span>recent\u00a0<\/span>COVID-19\u00a0<\/span>mini-grant<\/span>\u00a0initiative<\/span>, which is now closed<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>As always, we strive to support faculty as leaders and innovators.\u00a0<\/span>We recognized\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>this pandemic was going to be a challenging time for everyone involved and\u00a0<\/span>were<\/span>\u00a0so happy\u00a0<\/span>for the oppo<\/span>r<\/span>tunity<\/span>\u00a0to help so many of you<\/span>\u00a0innovate\u00a0<\/span>out of necessity\u00a0<\/span>as you transitioned your classes to online deliver<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The money for these<\/span>\u00a0COVID-19 mini-grants\u00a0<\/span>came after<\/span>\u00a0the cancellation of a few projects due to COVID<\/span>-19<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>including<\/span>\u00a0our annual Colloquium, and money\u00a0<\/span>we saved\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<\/span>programming earlier in the academic\u00a0<\/span>calendar<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>W<\/span>e decided to\u00a0<\/span>rapidly\u00a0<\/span>repurpose\u00a0<\/span>these<\/span>\u00a0funds into th<\/span>is<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>initiative<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Brown Center<\/span>\u00a0provided\u00a0<\/span>mini-<\/span>grants to just over 60 faculty members<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0average<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>mini-grant amount<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>about\u00a0<\/span>$<\/span>92<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Overall, we were able to provide funds for 26 microphones<\/span>\u00a0&\u00a0<\/span>headsets,\u00a0<\/span>12 webcams,\u00a0<\/span>17 hardware products such as cables and tripods, and 13\u00a0<\/span>other\u00a0<\/span>software and\u00a0<\/span>subscriptions<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Going forward, in order to support our mission, the Brown Center\u00a0<\/span>will be focused on<\/span>\u00a0providing all full<\/span>–<\/span>time and part<\/span>–<\/span>time faculty with individual attention as needed.\u00a0<\/span>While we have moved to remote work from our respective homes, please do not hesitate to reach out to our Interim Director Nathan Wolek or our Program Manager Chris Griffin for any help.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Program Manager: Chris Griffin (cggriffi@stetson.edu) | 386.822.7485<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Interim Director: Nathan Wolek (nwolek@stetson.edu) | 386.822.8987<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brown Center would\u00a0like to thank everyone who has participated with our\u00a0recent\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0mini-grant\u00a0initiative, which is now closed.\u00a0As always, we strive to support faculty as leaders and innovators.\u00a0We recognized\u00a0that\u00a0this pandemic was going to be a challenging time for everyone involved and\u00a0were\u00a0so happy\u00a0for the opportunity\u00a0to help so many of you\u00a0innovate\u00a0out of necessity\u00a0as you transitioned your classes to online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11124,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions\/11124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}