For Faculty

The Carl Frost Center for Social Science Research is committed to supporting faculty-student research at Hope College. In addition to supplying funding and technical expertise to faculty-student projects, the center assists individual faculty in the following ways: 

• Assistance with in-class research projects
• Production of surveys for personal or class research
• Workspace for student research assistants
• Assistance with grant-seeking software (funding sources external to the college)
• Assistance with SPSS and other data-analysis need

Please read our policy for serving Hope College clients.

Grants Through The Frost Center

The Frost Center distributes funds for faculty-student research in the social sciences. Please note the process has changed from past years, in that proposals are no longer evaluated on a rolling basis. Applications will now be evaluated twice a year. Deadline for fall is October 15, and for spring the deadline is February 15.

• Printable RFP form
  

Human Subjects Review Board

All research involving the use of human research subjects (participants) must be reviewed and approved by the Hope College Human Subjects Review Board (HSRB) before the research can be initiated.

• Human Subjects Review Board Website