The McCaleb Initiative for Peace
announces
A campus-wide competition for up to a $5,000 grant
for the best proposal from a faculty-student team
“
In Search of Peace”
Through funding from the Initiative for Peace established
by Kenneth and Margaret McCaleb, a competition is open to two-person
teams of one faculty member and one student who will undertake a project
to examine causes of war, consequences of war, peacekeeping efforts,
and/or the desires of people for peace.
Each team must consist of one full-time faculty member
from any Missouri Southern department and one full-time Missouri Southern
student who will be returning to Missouri Southern next fall. The student’s
major is unimportant. The team must develop the proposal together and
must agree to follow through on the proposal if selected. The winning
team must complete all stories and compile all photographs for the
project in the summer of 2010, prior to August 23, 2010.
The submission must be a detailed written proposal that
indicates how these goals would be accomplished:
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The project must result in 8-12 carefully edited
articles for publication in The Chart during the fall of 2010.
The topic must be in the general area of “The Search for Peace” and
may choose any approach the team agrees upon. Photographs and other
illustrations will be required for publication. The submission must
outline the proposed articles and photographs or illustrations in
detail.
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The proposal will be detailed in the research
that will be undertaken and in how the project will be carried out.
Travel within the United States and/or abroad may be included, and
a proposed itinerary and budget for travel must be included. If interviews
are proposed, there must be some indication of the probable success
of securing these interviews, such as emails from the proposed sources.
A detailed budget must be included, whether travel is involved or
not.
Note: Please do not include equipment purchases in the budget.
- Travel to countries where the State Department has issued Travel
Warnings is not permissible. See http://travel.state.gov/travel/ for
an up-to-date list.
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Teams must be aware that the final product must have broad appeal
to potential readers and must conform to style requirements of The
Chart.
The submission will include:
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A title page giving the name of the project and the
names and identifications of the team members.
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An introductory essay explaining the reason for the
team and the desired result the team has in completing the project
proposed.
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A review of the literature and a selected bibliography,
to show that the team has thoroughly researched the project.
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The detailed proposal with an itemized budget.
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Evidence (such as emails) that the proposed interviews
will be granted by the necessary sources.
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A résumé or vita of each team member
demonstrating the qualifications of each to carry out the project.
Three bound copies of the proposal must be submitted
by March 19, 2010, to:
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Chad Stebbins, Director
Institute of International Studies
Webster Hall 337-A |
Previous Initiative for Peace projects and information
about the McCalebs is available at http://www.mssu.edu/international/mccaleb
In 1998 the McCalebs gave the college stock valued then at $150,000 as
an endowment to assist in finding ways to bring about peace and to prevent
war. Kenneth McCaleb was a German prisoner of war during World War II
after being shot down on a bombing mission over Schweinfurt, Germany.
He spent 19 months in POW camps and has spent a considerable amount of
time since then studying war and peace movements.
McCaleb had attended the college when it was Joplin Junior College in
the late 1930s, and in 1939 had founded the college newspaper which still
exists today under the name he gave it, The Chart. When he and
his wife gave the money to the college it was with the understanding that,
through the college’s Institute of International Studies, the questions
about causes of war and means of achieving peace be studied and addressed
in The Chart.
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