This presentation was provided by Ron Joslin of Macalester College during the NISO webinar, Finding the Funding, Part Two, held on Wednesday, October 17, 2018.

1. Strategic Approaches to
Ron Joslin
Research & Instruction Librarian,
Macalester College
Finding the Funding, Part Two:
Strategic Approaches to Funding Scholarly Initiatives
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Funding an OER Initiative
at a Small College Library

2. I’m going to talk about…
• Case study: Setting up an OER program at Macalester College
• Traditional funding/implementation strategies (and why they didn’t work)
• Grant funding received: regional/national grants
• Lesson learned about seeking grants
• What’s next?

3. About Macalester College…
• Traditional private liberal arts college 2200 FTE students
• Library w/ 22 FTE staff including 15 librarians
• Recognized as the ACRL Small Library of the Year
• Limited experience seeking grant funding
…and the DeWitt Wallace Library

4. Starting off on the wrong foot
• It’s all about textbook cost
• Sciences is where OER is needed
• Adoption over creation
• Intro level courses

5. Mansergh-Stuessy Fund for
• Regional family foundation
• Awards grants to selected liberal arts colleges in MN
• Provides seed funding of up to $5,000
• Put an infrastructure into place
College Innovation

7. National Endowment
• We ain’t in Minnesota anymore! (…but support resources available)
• Funding to take 12 faculty authors to Vienna, Austria
• Creation of original content using native speakers
for the Humanities

8. Faculty stipend program

9. OER Stipend ProgramProgram provides start-up funding and encourages faculty experimentation with OER
Two levels of support available:
LEVEL #1: Adopting an existing open textbook/OER for use in a course
(Eligible for stipend of $300 per textbook project)
LEVEL #2: Creating a new Open Textbook/OER for use in a course
(Eligible for stipend of $1,200 per textbook project)
• Competitive process to receive stipend – limited funds available
• Open to tenured, tenure-track, or NTT series faculty
• OER should replace commercial textbook / learning resource
• Requires a consultation OER support staff and progress reports
• Half funds available early / remaining funds available later

10. Where do we go next?