Grants Committee

Committee Co-Chairs

Isidore Dorpenyo, University of Minnesota

Sara Doan, Michigan State University

Aligning with CPTSC’s mission, the purpose of the Grants Committee is to solicit and support research projects that serve technical and scientific communication programs. In doing so, the grants committee considers emerging research needs, recursive research needs, changing programmatic dynamics, and challenges affecting a diverse range of programs and institutions. 

Each year, the CPTSC Grants Committee solicits programmatic research in technical, professional, and scientific communication.  CPTSC solicits research for two grants cycles

1. Open Research Grant focuses on technical communication programmatic research broadly, including social justice concerns.
2. Research Grant to Promote Anti-Racist Programs and Pedagogies (aka the DEI Grant) focuses on a specific Diversity, Equity and Inclusion concern.

The mission of the DEI grants program is to explicitly solicit research related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in technical and scientific communication programs, specifically targeting programmatic research related to multiple-marginalized students and faculty. This grant program also seeks to develop connections between CPTSC and scientific and technical communication programs and scholars at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges, and Hispanic Serving Institutions.