Channing Briggs Small Research Grant

The Foundation will only fund direct costs related to conducting the research project. This might include the costs of transportation to conduct the research, the purchase of instruments, the costs of transcription, and costs of a graduate student to assist in conducting the research up to $3,000 of the total amount requested. Graduate students participating in the study may be included in authorship as appropriate.

The Foundation will not fund the following: costs of travel to and from NASPA conferences or any other conference in order to gather data or present the findings; funding for salaries of faculty or staff conducting the research; a percent for institutional indirect cost recovery or overhead; funding for gifts, food, or incentives to participate in the research study; funding for equipment used in the research, or the costs of graduate tuition and fees.

• Theoretical research: research that may not lead to immediate use or application, but is original and provides insight into a problem.
• Applied research: research that solves problems by utilizing well known and accepted principles and theories and in which the main focus is on analysis of an issue or problem and how to best resolve it.
• Quantitative research: research based on numeric figures or numbers in which the aim is to measure the quantity or amount and compare it with past records; it investigates the what, where, and when of decision making.
• Qualitative research: research that presents a non-quantitative type of analysis conducted through collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data by observing what people do and say; it is more subjective and uses different methods of collecting information, mainly individual, in-depth interviews and focus groups to investigate the why and how and decision making processes.
• Mixed methods research: research that relies on both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• Historical method: collection of techniques and guidelines used to research and write histories of the past

NASPA strives to be a champion and role model of innovation for higher education and student affairs associations. As such, this grant application would be ideally tied to one of NASPA’s four guiding principles of integrity, innovation, inclusion, and inquiry.

Although there must be a staff member to serve as the grant administrator, the grant is conferred to the institution. If the staff member leaves the institution, a new grant administrator must be identified within 30 days or the grant may be forfeited by the institution.

All funds must be used within 12 months of conferral. Once the project is completed, recipients are expected to present findings at a NASPA conference session or poster presentation or submit to a NASPA journal and be published within 18 months.