Office of College Grants at Buchanan House
F&M’s Office of College Grants exists to support the scholarly and creative pursuits of faculty and staff and the strategic priorities of the institution. Services include the following:
- Administration of internal research funds
- Conceptualization and preparation of grant and fellowship proposals
- Expert budget development
- Support for IRB, IACUC, and COG committees
- Liaison to administrative departments
- Facilitation of grant-related internal and external collaborations
- Collegial advice on seeking all types of funding
Core Values
Staff members in the Office of College Grants, a collaboration between College Advancement and the Office of the Provost, are committed to the following set of operating principles:
- Providing the College community with the services and resources required to seek and secure funding for scholarly, creative, service-related, and other efforts
- Working hand-in-hand with grant and fellowship seekers to leverage internal funding sources and secure external funding to ensure F&M’s position on the leading edge of liberal arts education
- Relying on core, shared values of education, quality, integrity, service, collegiality, responsibility, and accountability to expand grant-seeking capacity campuswide
- Adhering to and advancing relevant best practices among national liberal arts colleges
Staff
Amy Cuhel-Schuckers
· Faculty grant & fellowship development
· Proposal conceptualization
· Proposal editing & targeted feedback
Molly Dellinger
· Grant budgets & proposal submission
· Subawards
· Grant management (bridge to post-award)
Dick Fluck
· Institutional grant proposals
· Institutional grant reports
· Collaborative proposal development
Kathy Hertzler
· Faculty Research/Prof. Dev. Fund (FR/PDF)
· Committee on Grants (COG)
· Academic Innovation & Enrichment Fund
Ryan Sauder
· Office of College Grants leadership
· Institutional grant proposals & reports
· Advancement liaison
