Keene State College provides opportunities for members of the campus and local community to attend lectures, exchange ideas, engage in, and present research and creative work outside the classroom. These high impact practices are exciting and important additions to the academic and cultural life of students and faculty. The office of the Assistant Vice President for Academic Engagement supports events, internal grant opportunities, and other programs on campus. See details below.
Academic Excellence Celebration
The Academic Excellence Celebration is held in the spring. The primary goals of the event are to encourage the exchange of ideas and intellectual interaction among students, and to increase the visibility of students’ academic work and collaborative work between students and faculty. Student work is selected through a rigorous review process. Other events and exhibits of student work create a week of activities focused on student research and creative endeavors.
Center for Creative Inquiry
The Center for Creative Inquiry supports unique, rigorous, and transformative academic experiences that focus on the collaboration between students and faculty mentors including support for summer research. CCI grants are awarded directly to students for independent projects with limited faculty supervision. SURF grants fund summer research that include faculty-student collaboration and mentoring. All applications are submitted by students.
CCI and SURF Information & Applications
Prof. Meriem Pagès, CCI Coordinator cci@keene.edu
Honor Societies, Advisors, and Funding
Honor Society funding is designated for enrichment activities sponsored by the Honor Societies. The mission of each Honor Society defines enrichment activities, and honor societies are eligible to apply for enrichment funding. Students have used funds to bring speakers to campus, to travel to museums, and to attend musical and theatrical events.
- Honor Societies and Advisors
- Honor Society Funding Information
- Guidelines for Official Recognition of an Honor Society
For more information contact Kim Schmidl-Gagne, Assessment and Accreditation Office, Provost’s Office, at kgagne@keene.edu or 603-358-2768.
Sidore Foundation Programs Series
The Sidore Foundation supports campus presentations by speakers on emerging ideas and to enhance faculty efforts to challenge students and the wider community to participate in dialogue around original, provocative, and sometimes controversial issues facing society. Every year the Foundation supports several speakers, performers, or exhibits around a common theme. More information and a list of recent Sidore events is available here.
James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture
The James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture was named in honor of James Ewing, owner and publisher of the Keene Sentinel, an award-winning daily newspaper for the Monadnock Region from 1954 to 1993. The Endowment has been established to bring speakers to Keene State College and the Keene community to address current public or world affairs issues. More information is available here.
Faculty Development Grants
Research activity support for full-time tenure-track faculty is supported by a fund made available through the KSCEA collective bargaining agreement. See more information about the program, eligibility, criteria, and the application.
Adjunct Faculty Development Grants
Research activity and conference attendance support for adjunct faculty starting in their fifth consecutive semester is supported by a fund made available through the KSCAA collective bargaining agreement. Faculty must be eligible and members of the KSCAA. Information about the program, eligibility and criteria, and a link to the application form can be found here.