Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

EU CENTERS 2011-14

Proposal Narrative Form

4.B. Staff Assigned to the Operation. Explain the duties and indicate the effort required (hours worked per week) of all staff devoted to the project for each academic year during the period of the grant (2011-2014).
The College of Liberal Arts is absolutely committed to ensuring that CES is sufficiently staffed to meet all the challenges that it will face during the grant cycle.

To this end, the direct critical staff of the Center will include:

1. Director of the EU Center of Excellence, Gary Freeman. Professor Freeman will be devoting 20% of his effort to the EU Center of Excellence.

Professor Freeman is currently the Chair of the Government Department and has extensive experience in administration at UT.

His main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: increasing the awareness of the university community (and administration) of the Center’s activities and needs; attending yearly EU Center of Excellence meetings; fundraising with the College of Liberal Arts and Central Administration; serving as liaison with directors of EU Centers of Excellence in the US; serving as liaison with business community leaders and deans and faculty of partner institutions of higher learning; and serving as liaison with UT deans, center directors, chairs, and faculty.
2. Director of CES, Douglas Biow. Professor Biow, who will be the Principal Investigator of the grant, will be devoting 20% of his effort to the EU Center of Excellence.

Professor Biow is currently the Principal Investigator of CES’s NRC and FLAS program awarded by the Department of Education, and has extensive experience in administration at UT.

His main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: Principal Investigator of grant; Chair of EU Center for Excellence Executive Board; fundraising with the College of Liberal Arts and Central Administration; serving as liaison with UT deans, center directors, chairs, and faculty; serving as liaison with visiting speakers, lecturers, and adjunct professors; serving as liaison with business community leaders and deans and faculty of partner institutions of higher learning; serving as liaison with directors of EU Centers of Excellence in the US; developing exchange programs; developing and implementing the MA in European Studies with LBJ; developing new classes; overseeing staff work and management; developing and assisting in the funding of library acquisitions in EU materials.
3. Associate Director of CES, Mary Neuburger. Professor Neuburger will be devoting 5% of her effort to the EU Center of Excellence.

Professor Neuburger is currently the Director of the Center for Russian, East Europe, and Eurasian Studies, and the Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian. She has extensive experience in administration at UT.

Her main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: developing new institutional partnerships with universities in Europe, and expanding curricular development programs developed by effective use of video-conferencing and other technologies in partner universities in the US and abroad.
4. Program and Outreach Coordinator, Sally Dickson. Ms. Dickson is a full-time staff member of CES and will be devoting 20% of her effort to the EU Center of Excellence. She has worked for CES for 6 years and is the recipient in the past three years of two major UT awards: the College of Liberal Arts Staff Excellence Award and, most recently, the Presidential Staff Excellence Award.

Her main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: all outreach events; conference, workshop, and lecture series organization, coordination, and implementation; all scheduling of events and activities; office staff oversight; oversight of office and student workers; and liaison with staff of other EU Centers of Excellence.

5. Administrative Associate, Charlotte Harris. Ms. Harris is a full-time staff member of CES and will be devoting 20% of her effort to the EU Center of Excellence. Ms. Harris has extensive experience working in administration at UT. Prior to joining CES, she worked for the College of Engineering.

Her main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: all billing and processing of paperwork; assistance in conference, workshop, and lecture series organization, coordination, and implementation; data collection for measurement and evaluation; tracking; process all reports related to the EU Center of Excellence grant.

6. Communications specialist, who will be hired 12 hours a week by contract and devote his or her work entirely to EU Center of Excellence. We will be looking for someone with an MA in European and EU Studies.

His or her duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: writing and updating material for the website and newsletter; general publicity for all EU Center of Excellence events, managing and updating listservs; ensuring that the conferences, workshops, and lectures are video-taped and uploaded onto the website; and ensuring that the website functions as a window that opens onto the intellectual life of the Center.

In addition, of Liberal Arts Instructional and Technology Services (LAITS) and the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) will provide collaborative support for the Center in terms of: accounting, student advising, video and teleconferencing technology, event coordinating, and processing and organizing professor visits.