The Center for Public Service offers support to Tulane faculty interested in community-engaged scholarship. CPS had funding to support course development and activities, community-engaged research, and conference attendance.
Public Service Course Activity Fund
CPS offers a Course Activity Fund to individual faculty members currently teaching a service learning course. Faculty teaching service learning courses will have at their disposal $250 per semester to enhance successful outcomes of planned service activities. Faculty will receive reimbursement of their expenses after the submission of receipts. For more information, please contact Bridget Smith.
The WAVES grant is a competitive grant offering up to $500 per course for innovative service learning projects. Preference is given to classes that offer a transformative service learning experience and that match one of the Center's strategic goals. Please see the RFP for more information and to apply. Funds are limited. For more information, please contact Bridget Smith.
Community-Engaged Conference Fund
Limited funding is available for conference costs related to faculty professional development activities involving community-engaged scholarship. (No travel requests will be supported this year.) Preference is given to faculty accepted to present at an academic conference, but all are welcome to apply.
Service Learning in TIDES/COLQ Course Development Grants
Grants are available for TIDES or COLQ courses (new or existing) that integrate a service learning component with the course. Course also must independently be approved by the TIDES office. The grant offers $1000 to the faculty and $1000 to your community partner. Deadline to apply is October 1st or March 1st for following semester.
Service Learning Course Development Grant
The Service Learning Course Development Grant supports the creation of service-learning courses that fulfill either Tier 1 or Tier 2 of the requirement. For more information, please contact Bridget Smith.
- Spring Semester Deadline: October 1st of previous semester
- Fall Semester Deadline: March 1st of previous semester
Felson Public Service Course Development Grant
This grant competition supports the development of service-learning courses designed to serve students at the upper level (3000 and above) in various disciplines and promotes faculty innovation in service learning. This grant is made possible by the generosity of the Felson Family. For more information, please contact Bridget Smith.
- Spring Semester Deadline: October 1st of previous semester
- Fall Semester Deadline: March 1st of previous semester
The Center for Public Service is excited to announce a new round of grant opportunities in data, AI, and/or community engagement. Three centers/institutes at Tulane University, the Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science (CAIDS), the Center for Community-Engaged Artificial Intelligence (CEAI), and the Center for Public Service (CPS), are offering opportunities for grant funding up to $10,000. These grants support research projects involving data science, and/or artificial intelligence (or impacts of AI), and/or community-engaged research or projects. Projects that meet multiple criteria are prioritized. Full-time Tulane faculty, Tulane post-doctoral scholars, and advanced graduate students in Fall 2025 who are registered for thesis or with doctoral candidacy are encouraged to apply (see eligibility requirements in the application) by May 4, 2025.
Applicants should meet the criteria listed in the application of at least one funder to apply, but they do not need to meet the criteria of all three funders. Projects that meet the community engagement requirement, detailed below, are eligible for funding from CPS, and also CAIDS (if the data requirement, detailed below, is met) and CEAI (if the AI requirement is met). Projects that do not meet the community engagement requirement are only eligible for funding from CAIDS, and only if the data requirement is met.
- CEAI: Supports community-engaged research (defined in detail in the application) that involves AI. AI includes, but is not limited to:
- theoretical and technical research into the methodology of AI;
- applications of AI to research on a socio-economic community, or health questions; or
- data-driven research on the effects of AI.
- CPS: Fund faculty and post-doc research, artistic, or other projects that are community-engaged (defined in detail below). Projects by faculty and post-docs are eligible for up to $10,000, and projects by graduate students are eligible for up to $1,500, with additional funding possible from CAIDS or CEAI (for up to $10,000), if the project meets their criteria.
- CAIDS: Funds data-focused research, including not only quantitative data but also qualitative data, such as data obtained from interviews, oral histories, and primary source documents. Scholars from all fields are encouraged to apply. CAIDS prioritizes research that:
- Broadens participation in data science, including funding student research assistants;
- Faces a financial barrier to collecting or analyzing data;
- Addresses their upcoming annual data theme, "Data (Mis)Information," which seeks to highlight how data can be used correctly or incorrectly to inform decision-making;
- Will be used as a proof-of-concept, preliminary, or pilot results that will be used to apply for an external grant;
- Incorporates AI;
- Is community-engaged.
Application Link: https://tulane.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8q8ntrWsKe7FJZk
Submission Deadline: May 4, 2025 at 11:59 pm.
Grant Contact: If you have questions about the application, please email Joey Couvillon at acouvil@tulane.edu. For questions about community-engagement, please contact Lucas Diaz at ldiaz5@tulane.edu.
