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• Faculty affiliates are encouraged to apply in interdisciplinary* groups
  • Interdisciplinary proposals will be given special consideration during the review process.
• Proposals that do not involve an interdisciplinary team of researchers will be given consideration.

Awards will only be given to individuals affiliated with CISLL, but individuals hired with PoP funds by the awardee need not be affiliates of the center.

*The describes interdisciplinary research as a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice.

Awards of up to $9,000 are available. Depending on the proposals received, multiple proposals may be awarded (e.g., two awards of $4,500 each or three awards of varying amounts that add up to $9,000).

Examples of the types of support that the award may be used for include (but are not limited to):

• Hiring a graduate student to assist with pilot data collection or grant preparation
• Funding a course buyout (with approval of the affiliate’s department chair)
• Covering a partial summer salary
• Hiring a grant consultant

The funds cannot be used to purchase equipment. Please direct inquiries about the allowability of specific expenditures to cisll@niu.edu.

Note: All funds awarded for the CISLL PoP Grant must be spent by May 31 of the academic year in which the grant was awarded. For personnel costs, as long as the funds are officially allocated by May 31, funding can cover salary for the period between May 15 - June 30.

All awardees will be expected to:

• Submit the proposal to an external funding agency that awards indirects (i.e., the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation) and officially note CISLL as associated with the grant.
• Share an informal report of progress including empirical findings at the CISLL annual Reading Day retreat in the academic year following the year of the award. If presentation at the retreat is impossible due to conflicts, awardees will be required to present their project with CISLL in some form during the academic year following the year of the award, e.g., at our fall/spring Show and Share events.
• Be interviewed for our podcast, CISLL Presents: A Language and Literacy Podcast.
• Submit a final report on your project, including information about activities completed and findings, by the beginning of the academic year following the year of the award.

The PoP Grant Committee will review applications based on the following criteria:

• Importance of the project, including its purpose and significance/broader impact.
• Methodological rigor of the research plan.
• Potential for future external funding and dissemination of the associated scholarship.
• Relevance to CISLL's mission.
• Expertise in area.
• Feasibility of completing the proposal for external funding in the stated time period and relevance of the budget request to the stated objectives.
• Interdisciplinary team proposals will receive special consideration.

Applications will be rank-ordered by the committee. Funding will be allocated in rank order based on the committees' recommendations until the maximum amount the CISLL budget has designated for these PoP Grants has been committed.