The Associated Colleges of the South - Environmental Program invites faculty, staff, students, and administrators from all ACS institutions to submit proposals for grants made possible by funding from a major foundation. If a student initiated project, an academic advisor to the project must be named. The purpose of these grants is to help prepare the Campus Community, with a focus on the student, for environmental citizenship in the 21st century. The study of environmental issues integrates perspectives and tools of the humanities and arts, social sciences and natural sciences, and is concerned with issues at local, regional, national and global scales. Proposed projects should increase environmental citizenship through the systematic study of the interactions between humans and the biosphere, and the search for innovative and proactive solutions to environmental problems.
Priority is given to projects linking two or more of the areas listed above.
Projects will focus on a topic or process of wide interest to the consortium as a whole as opposed to matters of concern on a single campus, and with the potential to transform institutions, individuals and the environment. Interdisciplinary efforts and projects that promote systemic and holistic perspectives will receive priority attention. In order to enhance proposal development and ensure the review and selection process is timely, development and submittal of a pre proposal is suggested, although not required. Although a pre proposal is not required, those submitting pre proposals will most likely be able to develop a more competitive full proposal. ACS will use the pre proposal to evaluate the proposed project and its relevance to the stated ACS Environmental Program areas and its collaborative and interdisciplinary aspects.