JANUARY 2025
Title: Working with Contracts and Procurement Department
About: General Overview of current contracts and how to submit a contract request. Purchasing department processes and PCard overview.
Date and time: January 14, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons and Zoom (https://ewu.zoom.us/j/946-8336002)
Teachers: Cody Ross, Technology and Public Works Contracts Administrator; Diana Zartman, Purchasing Manager
Title: Grants 101
About: This workshop serves as an excellent introduction to the grant process for all faculty/staff who may not have applied or helped manage a grant before. Come learn about the entire “cradle-to-grave” grant experience with OGRD.
Date and time: January 30, Noon-12:50 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons and Zoom (https://ewu.zoom.us/j/946-8336002)
Teacher: OGRD Staff
FEBRUARY 2025
*COUNCIL*
Topic: Recognition & Acknowledgement
Date and time: February 11, Noon-1 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons
Facilitator: Anna Frost
Preparation: Please review The Four Teachers
About Council: Based on the premise that dialogue is learning, this dialogic practice allows all willing and able folks to learn, listen, and grow. Please come as you are.
Title: Are You My Funding Opportunity? How to Identify Grant “Fit-Ness”
About: It’s all so exciting. You have finally found a funding opportunity, the dollar signs are looking real fine, but now what? This workshop will teach you how to read solicitations in depth, learn what to look for, and doubly determine it is a good fit. Additionally, we will discuss the intentions of requests for proposals (RFPs), how to determine your audience for your proposal, what to do when you have questions of the solicitation, and when to start working on a proposal.
Date and time: February 20, Noon-12:50 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons and Zoom (https://ewu.zoom.us/j/946-8336002)
Teacher: Anna Frost
Pre-registration recommended: https://forms.gle/CfFLbUiwKAubK7aJ9
MARCH 2025
*COUNCIL*
Topic: Care in the Academy
Date and time: March 11, Noon-1 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons
Facilitator: Anna Frost
Preparation: Please review The Four Teachers
About Council: Based on the premise that dialogue is learning, this dialogic practice allows all willing and able folks to learn, listen, and grow. Please come as you are.
Title: Crafting a Complete Logic Model in the Proposal Narrative
About: The development of a logic model is one of the most essential components of a proposal, yet one of the most under-utilized. In this workshop, you will learn what a logic model is, benefits a logic model brings to your proposal, and how to craft one.
Date and time: March 18, Noon-12:50 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons and Zoom (https://ewu.zoom.us/j/946-8336002)
Teacher: Anna Frost
APRIL 2025
*COUNCIL*
Topic: Third Space Professionals
Date and time: April 11, Noon-1 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons
Facilitator: Anna Frost
Preparation: Please review The Four Teachers
About Council: Based on the premise that dialogue is learning, this dialogic practice allows all willing and able folks to learn, listen, and grow. Please come as you are.
Title: Compliance at EWU
About: In this workshop, we will discuss all matters of compliance, including what it is, who it affects, and how it may show up in your research and grants.
Date and time: April 17, Noon-12:50 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons and Zoom (https://ewu.zoom.us/j/946-8336002)
Teacher: OGRD Staff
MAY 2025
Title: Intro to Tech Transfer
About: This workshop will explain what tech transfer is, including how to bring a research product to market and funded programs to teach you and your team entrepreneurial skills.
Date and time: May 9, Noon-12:50 p.m.
Location: Faculty Commons and Zoom (https://ewu.zoom.us/j/946-8336002)
Teacher: Anna Frost
