Junior and senior faculty in the Burkhart Center for Autism Education & Research team up to hone grant-writing skills.
When new pre-tenure faculty members are hired, especially by a Carnegie Classification of Higher Education "Very High Research Activity” Institution like Texas Tech University, there is usually an expectation of future acquisition of grants and other research funds. To a newly minted assistant professor, this is anticipated but can still be a bit overwhelming.
Texas Tech’s College of Education and its Burkhart Center for Autism Education & Research went about easing some of that anxiety with its inaugural Summer Research Fellows initiative. The essence of the program was to group junior and senior faculty members together so the more experienced could teach the more novice educators best practices and demystify grant writing.
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