2021-College-Report

50 ■ C O L L E G E R E P O R T 2 0 2 1 ■ 51 c3 research center The Center for Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity, also known as C3, serves the research and creative needs of faculty in the College of Fine Arts and Communication. C3 aims to leverage external funding for interdisciplinary research and creative ideas to make a positive impact in the way people live, learn, and work. The college’s C3 Research Center offers support to enhance the entire continuum of faculty research and scholarly creative activities, from the initial spark of an idea to the delivery of a successful project. FOR MORE I NFO : , V I S I T: c3.finearts.txstate.edu C3 OVERVI EW The C3 center supports a culture of scholarship, research, creative activity, and collaboration among faculty in the College of Fine Arts and Communication and beyond. EXTERNALLY FUNDED SPONSORED PROGRAMS C3 is at the forefront of innovative fundraising activities and helps faculty pursue funding from private sponsors like foundations and corporations. C3 provides a wide range of pre and post-award services to CoFAC faculty, including collaborative project idea development, personalized funding searches, application guidance review, narrative and budget editing, award spending plans, and grant summary reports. Furthermore, C3 strives to enhance CoFAC faculty’s external funding knowledge and skillset, as well as build upon a culture where creative and research projects are celebrated and awarded funding consistently. To accomplish these goals, C3 creates tailored resources, provides needs-based training, and walks faculty through the entire internal and external grant process. Texas State aims to increase external funding applications and restricted research expenditures as we strive to become eligible for National Research University Funding Status. Since the inception of C3 in 2014, the number of submitted proposals and sponsored program expenditures for the College of Fine Arts and Communication has increased dramatically overall. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on ongoing and future externally funded projects, especially those that involve travel or live performances, CoFAC has much to celebrate and look forward to when it comes to externally funded projects. For example, this past year Sean Justice, an Art and Design faculty, earned CoFAC’s first National Science Foundation (NSF) award, and Humanities Texas fully funded Theatre and Dance’s Eugene Lee and the 2021 Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration. Looking forward to the coming academic year, CoFAC faculty are poised to make significant strides in external funding as applications are being prepared for major federal funders such as NSF, NEA, NEH, and NIH. EXTERNAL FUNDING AWARDED • SEAN JUSTICE ( Art and Design ) Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Abilities to Identify Computational Thinking Precursors to Strengthen Computer Science in Classrooms Total Award: $449,100 (2020-2023) Sponsor: National Science Foundation • MICHEL HAIGH ( Journalism and Mass Communication ) Message Frames, Emotion, and Crises: Examining the Impact of Crisis Messages on Stakeholders Total Award: $15,000 (2019-2021) Sponsor: Pennsylvania State University • VANESSA HIGGINS - JOYCE ( Journalism and Mass Communication ) Cine Clubs in Community: Video as a Tool for Knowledge, Creation and Identity Total Award: $10,017 Sponsor: Fundacion Universitaria Del Area Andina • JASON KWAK ( Music ) 11th Annual Texas State International Piano Festival Total Award: $5,000 Sponsor: San Marcos Arts Commission MERED I TH WI L L I AMS C3 TEAM • ANA BAER ( Theatre and Dance ) Interdisciplinary Performing Arts Festival of the African, Hispanic, and Latin American Diasporas Total Award: $4,000 Sponsor: The San Marcos Arts Commission • EUGENE LEE ( Theatre and Dance ) Black and Latino Playwrights Conference Sponsors: Humanities Texas ( $16,702 , 2021), National Endowment for the Humanities ( $16,921 matching grant, 2016-2021) INTERNAL FUNDING AWARDED For the Research Enhancement Program (REP), the number of REPs awarded is based on the amount of funds available in the REP program per year and the number of proposals submitted by each college. In FY 2020, the College of Fine Arts and Communication submitted 30 proposals and 10 were awarded totaling $92,640 . However, due to constraints and uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic, the FY 2021 REP cycle saw a substantial decrease in the amount of overall REP funding available, as well as a significant decrease in applicants. Accordingly, in 2020 the college submitted 15 proposals and 4 were awarded totaling $45,446 . REPS AWARDED • NICO SCHÜLER ( Music ) Jacob J. Sawyer (1856 – 1885) and the Rediscovery of African-American Musical Theatre • JOSH MILLER ( Communication Studies ) Queering the Dream: Bayard Rustin, Sexuality, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement MATTHEW WI NN C3 TEAM • JASMINE AUSTIN and ELIZABETH EGER ( Communication Studies ) Examining Leadership Communication of Texas Small Businesses in a Global Pandemic • KATE GLASHEEN-DENTINO ( Theatre and Dance ) and MATT MCALLISTER ( College of Education, Health and Human Performance ) Polyvagal Theory and the Alba Method: Enhancing Mental Wellness through Emotional Effector Patterns FUTURE RESEARCH Future research and creative projects C3 is supporting: • CINDY ROYAL ( Journalism and Mass Communication ) is planning to apply for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant in August. The project aims to Broaden STEM participation in undergraduate liberal arts and fine arts institutions through emerging media mentorship. • ANA BAER and MICHELLE NANCE ( Theatre and Dance ) are planning to apply for a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town grant in August to support Semilla Fest, a multidisciplinary performing arts festival in San Marcos. If awarded, Semilla Fest will highlight Latinx and African performances and strengthen relationships between under-represented communities. • KRISTEN FARRIS and TRICIA BURKE ( Communication Studies ) are planning on applying for a National Institute of Health (NIH) AREA R15 this fall. Their project will seek to study sensemaking, coping and resilience, and identity development/negotiation among parents of children with disabilities. Through their research, they hope to create resources to benefit relationships of both parents and children.