For Faculty

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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 needs

Grants Through The Frost Center

The Frost Center distributes funds for faculty-student research in the social sciences. Applications are accepted at any time and are evaluated on a rolling basis throughout the year. Proposal applications are available in a printable or an on-line version. This file shows the criteria used to evaluate proposals for Faculty-Student Research Grants.

• Printable RFP form
• On-line RFP form
• Evaluation criteria

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