Dear Colleagues, Please see attached guidelines for the Summer 2021 Strategic Faculty Research Mentoring/ Collaboration (SFRM) grant proposal collaboration incentive. Contact me, Emily or Iwan with any questions you have. Hoping you have a great summer. Michael The College of Education and Human Development (COEHD) is pleased to sponsor the Strategic Faculty Research Mentoring/Collaboration (SFRM) grant proposal collaboration incentive (formerly called “award competition”). Faculty mentoring is key to successful professional development, and strategic partnerships are increasingly viewed as necessary to foster impactful scholarship. This incentive encourages faculty-to-faculty mentoring collaborative efforts as grant development teams, each consisting of two to four UTSA faculty, including one or two UTSA faculty member(s) with record(s) of extramural funding, and one or two COEHD tenure-track faculty (at any level) with more limited experience securing external funding for research. Each team will collaborate to develop and submit a proposal for research funding greater than $200,000. The goals are to: (a) encourage cross-department, cross-college collaborations leading to long-term research partnerships and (b) develop faculty grant-writing skills. A faculty member will join with (an)other faculty member(s) with complementary skillsets or expertise to design and submit a large-scale research grant proposal during Summer 2021 (July 1-August 31). To become eligible for the $3,000 incentive, which are distributed following proposal submission, the teams need only submit a Letter of Intent explaining the focus of the study, funder/sponsor, and contributions to be made by each faculty member in the development of a proposal to be submitted to the funder between 7/1/21 and 8/31/21. The awarded funds are not intended to be used for the proposed study, but rather serve as an incentive to submit the proposal, and so the funds may be used to support their other independent research-related activities. See attachment for additional information. PS Special thanks for Drs. Sullivan and Yazan for reviewing and editing drafts of this revision of call for proposals distributed this Spring. This incentive is “similar in spirit” but much more flexible in implementation than the prior version distributed in Spring. Michael J. Karcher, Ed.D., Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research Professor of Educational Psychology (pronouns: he/him) College of Education and Human Development, University of Texas at San Antonio 501 Cesar Chavez Blvd., Suite DB 4.337 (DT); MB 3.476 (Main Campus) San Antonio, TX 78207 (210) 458-2032; 458-2650 (department) michael.karcher@utsa.edu<mailto:michael.karcher@utsa.edu> ORCID ID: 0003-1970-8263