The University of Kansas
Outreach Partnership Grant
Preapplication
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Continuing Education
Preapplication Deadline: April 30, 2008
Outreach Partnership Grants are offered through the Office of the Provost and Continuing Education for groups coordinating events through KU Continuing Education.
Summary of the University Conference Policy
Definition: A conference is an educational event or program of relatively short duration. Typically, the event involves more than 100 people, takes place outside the classroom, is not offered for credit, and will not be replicated. Participants are drawn mainly from outside the university community.
All groups scheduling a conference open to the public and charging fees to offset conference expenses must schedule the event through and use services of KU Continuing Education. Excluded groups are registered campus organizations that schedule conferences for their own members.
Groups coordinating events through KU Continuing Education may apply for Outreach Partnership Grants offered through the Office of the Provost and Continuing Education.
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Guidelines for Outreach Partnership Grants (OPG)
Requests for a university Outreach Partnership Grant should:
- Attract more than100 people in attendance
- Focus attention on KU through the media
- Fund only 1/4 to 1/3 of the total costs through the OPG
- Charge admission fees
- Serve high priority university purposes
- Feature KU research or education
- Not have a majority of attendance via student enrollments
- Take place on the KU campus in Lawrence
- Use Continuing Education for administrative and logistical services and pay management and overhead fees to Continuing Education
- Only be possible because of the OPG subsidy
- Academic conferences with programming that supports the teaching
and research mission of an academic department will receive higher
priority than those that do not support these missions. Public service
programming will be considered, but given a lower priority.
- The amount of support through the OPG tpically ranges from $3,500 to $10,000.
- Regardless of being awarded an OPG, if fees and other conference income are sufficient to cover all costs, no OPG will be given from the Office of the Provost or Continuing Education. Any portion of the OPG can not be kept as an overage after expenses of the event are subtracted from income.
You must submit a budget with your preapplication form to be considered for a grant.
Two Ways to Apply
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Apply online:
- Download the forms:
- Download Outreach Partnership Grant Preapplication and Budget
- Complete the forms, and mail or fax them, by April 30, 2008, to:
Jim Peters
Director of Professional Programs and Communications
Continuing Education
University of Kansas
1515 St. Andrews Drive
Lawrence, Kansas 66047
785-864-9142 (Office)
785-864-4871 (Fax)
Jpeters1@ku.edu
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