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online resources for professionalization
in Communication
Funding
- OGSR
funding resources
Albert
and Elaine Borchard Foundation -
Faculty Grants in France - Chateau de la Bretesche
UCLA
Humanities Grants
Merit-based
Financial Support from UCSD
Need-based Financial
Aid
Fellowship
Opportunities from Outside Sources
List of Organizations
offering Fellowships
Faculty Grants Albert and
Elaine Borchard Foundation
USC Office
of Foundation Relations
Social
Science Research Council
- "...the Social Science
Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit,
international association devoted to the advancement of interdisciplinary
research in the social sciences. It does this through a wide variety
of interdisciplinary workshops and conferences, fellowships and
grants, summer training institutes, scholarly exchanges, and publications..."
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Fellowships
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- The
Grantsmanship Center
- "...TGCI was founded
in 1972 to offer grantsmanship training and low-cost publications
to nonprofit organizations and government agencies... Today TGCI
conducts some 200 workshops annually in grantsmanship and proposal
writing..."
- Notices
of Funding Availability
- "...notices of Funding
Availability (NOFAs) are announcements that appear in the Federal
Register, printed each business day by the United States government,
inviting applications for Federal grant programs. This page allows
you to generate a customized listing of NOFAs...."
- Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance
- "...the Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance is a government-wide compendium of Federal programs,
projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits
to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance
programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal
government..."
- National
Science Foundation (NSF)
- National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
US
Dept of Education - funding
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- Research
Funding Opportunities and Administration (TRAM)
- The TRAM webpage is
a service initially developed by the Texas Research Administrators
Group, under the direction of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board.
- National
Academy of Education
- "...to promote scholarly
inquiry and discussion concerning the ends and means of education,
in all its forms, in the United States and abroad..." (including
a Postdoctoral
Program sponsored by the Spencer Foundation.
- The
Spencer Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship Program
- "...The
Spencer Foundation is a private foundation that grants funds
to support research which contributes to the understanding of education
and improvement of its practice..."
- The
National Academies
- "...the Fellowship Programs
Unit administers predoctoral, dissertation, postdoctoral, and other
fellowship programs for advanced study in research-based disciplines.
The fellowships include the Ford Foundation Predoctoral, Dissertation,
and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities, the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences, the DOE
Integrated Manufacturing Predoctoral Fellowships, the NASA Administrator's
Fellowship Program, and the U.S. Department of Education OERI Visiting
Scholar's Program..."
including, but not
only
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Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships For Minorities
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- The
Gates Cambridge Scholarships
- "...n establishing the
Gates Cambridge Scholars programme, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
hopes to create a network of future leaders from around the world
who will bring new vision and commitment to improving the life circumstances
of citizens in their respective countries... The programme will
offer a substantial number of scholarships for study as an affiliated
student or to pursue taught or research courses of postgraduate
study at the University of Cambridge. The programme will begin in
October 2001..."
- Mosaica
Net, Grants and Funding Links
- (links to many funding
organizations, especially oriented towards education) (happens
to be designed by Comm grad Marie Judson...)
- The
Foundation Center
- FundsNet
- (a giant grant and funding
portal...)
- FastWeb
- "...an extensive college
directory of more than 4,000 schools with information on admissions,
financial aid and general information. Easy-to-find information
from national experts on admissions, financial aid, money management,
career planning, jobs and life after college..." (mostly for undergrads,
but can do very specific search after you fill out short profile)
- FinAid!
The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid
- (mostly for undergrads,
but some grad school funding and grant/fellowship info...
Professional
organizations in communication
- American
Communication Association (ACA)
The Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Communication Institute for Online
Scholarship
International Communication
Association (ICA)
National Communication Association
(NCA)
Society for Cinema Studies
(SCS)
Western States
Communication Association (WSCA)
ESRC Society Today
Online
journals
American
Communication Journal
Animation Journal (abstracts
only)
Bad
Subjects: Political Education for Everyday life
Cinema
Journal (SCS) (tables
of contents only)
Journal
of Communication (abstracts
only)
Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated
Communication Magazine
Convergence: The
Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (abstracts
only)
Critical
Inquiry
Cultural
Studies (contents
pages and sample issues only)
Electronic
Journal of Communication (tables
of contents only)
Framework:
The Journal of Cinema and Media (entire new issue, select archives)
Information, Communication
& Society
The Information Society
M/C - a Journal of
Media and Culture
Media,
Culture, and Society
New Media and
Society (tables
of contents only)
Postmodern
Culture
Social Text (tables
of contents only)
SPEED (archive,
1994-1997)
Television
and New Medi
Theory, Culture, and Society
The
Velvet Light Trap (tables
of contents only)
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Teaching
resources
UCSD Center for Teaching Development
(CTD)
New
Horizons in Scholarly Communication (UCSC)
Stanford Learning
Lab
Teacher Resource Pages
The World
Lecture Hall
Tomorrow's
Professor
Grad Professionalization Resources
Chronological Academic Job Search Tips
Academic
job listings
ICA Newsletter
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Career Network: academic news, free job ads and advice. Access
to some sections requires subscription.
http://www.HigherEdJobs.com
H-Net:
Humanities and Social Sciences On Line: sign up to receive job
ads and other announcements.
Academic
Careers Academic
Careers Online includes faculty, research, post doc, adjunct, administrative,
and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities,
and research institutes around the world.
Listservers:
Advice
Networking
on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for Ph D Students.
Near-legendary guide to professional skills for Ph D students. It
explains how to speak at a conference, build a community around your
research topic, write a dissertation, get a job, advise others, and
become a leader in your field. Includes an extensive bibliography.
Advisor, Teacher, Role
Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering,
from the National Academy Press. (Addresses professors on their responsibilities
as advisors but contains discussions of mentoring skills that may
be useful reading for students in any discipline, too.) http://stills.nap.edu/html/mentor
or
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/mentor
Research
Tools Workshop
Resources on Writing
the Dissertation:
Dissertation
Proposal Writing
Tips
for Successful Writing Groups
PhD - First
Thoughts to Finished Writing
Instructions
for Preparation and Submission of Doctoral Dissertations and Master's
Theses
Electronic
Dissertation Filling
Conference How-to Tips:
Vita, Curriculum
Vitae (CV) Preparation
Guidelines for
Writing Abstracts (for conference submissions)
Notes
on Organizing Conferences
Preparing for Academic Job Interviews:
UCSD
Academic Personnel Forms
http://otal.umd.edu/~sies/jobadvice.html
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