Center for the First Year Research Grant: Partnership Anyone?

The Center for the First Year is offering a grant for research that has the potential to improve the experiences of college students in transition.

The deadline is close, July 16, 2007, but doable.

You can see the submission info here.

Recipient will get $5,000 from CYE and free travel to two CYE conferences to receive the award and present the research.

Tom and I know the guys over at Red Rover pretty well : ) and they would love to partner with someone to use Red Rover as the info gathering platform. In short, Red Rover would allow the researcher to get a full, complete data set from a freshman class (at multiple schools) about the effects of automated software introductions on transition and involvement.

The research could also explore the pros and cons of leveraging social networking (Facebook / Myspace etc.) to increase social capital and ease transition challenges. The software would provide more data than you could shake a stick at (without much effort by the researcher) and the researcher's job would be to ask testable questions and analyze the data.

Just for extra encouragement, if selected, Red Rover will double the cash grant prize. So you'd get 10k (no strings attached) and, of course, the everlasting fame.

Anyone interested?