ITTL Application Guidelines:

An initial proposal following the outline below must be submitted to the Selection Committee Chairs: Mary Hanlin (mhanlin@tcc.edu), John Morea (jmorea@tcc.edu) or Nancy Jolemore (njolemore@tcc.edu). All submissions must be emailed as attacments in Microsoft Word (.doc or .rft) file format. The initial submission deadline is: March 31, 2008.

The ITTL proposal must address the following aspects of project's theeffort: 

• Project Overview
• Rationale/Benefits to students and college
• People involved
• Anticipated cost of software, hardware and technical support needed
• Anticipated travel expense and justification for travel and conference
• Detailed Timeline (dates of project implementation, dates of travel, dates of equipment purchases)
• Detailed budget (including anticipated shipping costs, stipends or release time)
• Explanation of how the effectiveness of your project will be measured; how will data be collected and how will your experiences be shared? (New Horizons, TLTC committee presentation)
• Explanation of how project might continue if support is needed after funded period.

Further, attachments for core proposal must consist of the following:

•  A spreadsheet and detailed breakdown of all anticipated costs.  If the costs include specific hardware or software, include breakdown for equipment costs with name of vendor and item number.   Please keep in mind potential shipping costs, travel expenses or any other easily overlooked costs.   If faculty member seeks release time for particular project, it is a wholly acceptable to "write" that funding into the grant. 
• Names, email addresses and work numbers of all project collaborators as well as brief delineation of their roles and duties in the project.  There must be a clearly articulated “lead” applicant or coordinator who will serve as liaison between the ITTL chairs and approved project.
• A detailed timeline or implementation schedule of planned project.  Methods such as a Gantt Chart are wholly acceptable ways to delineate timeline of project.

Finally additional attachments are required if:

• Faculty member seeks release time from standard teaching course load.  Department Dean must submit “Statement of Approval” on behalf of faculty member. 
• The anticipated project and collected data might continue beyond one year.  A detailed explanation is needed to ensure that its longevity will not discourage the approved grant from being successful.

• The proposal includes funds that are to be dispersed or allocated through any competitive process within the grant, related procedures should be clearly described and explained and must include protocols for excluding self-interest or conflict of interest from the process.  TCC employees must not be involved in any decision-making process that results in allocating funds to themselves.