Faculty Development Awards

Current Awards

Requests for FY25 will be considered on an ongoing basis. International Travel requests must be registered through OIE per UPP 1-18. For those attending virtual conferences, up to $300 will continue to be offered towards the registration cost. Funds are limited, with quarterly caps. Please make sure to use your departmental funding first. Requests for travel awards should be made in advance of the trip.

Tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply for funds to assist with costs associated with publication and provide travel support for the purpose of presenting their research, performance, exhibition or creative activity.

To provide assistance to faculty, the Vice President of the Office of Research and Innovation has established the Faculty Development Award. This internal funding is designed to assist tenured and tenure-track faculty in promoting their research and professional development in a quick turnaround time period. This funding is intended to supplement and not supplant funding available from other sources such as department travel allotments, start-up packages and deans awards.

Since the number of worthy requests exceeds the available budget, funding is necessarily limited to those situations where it can be shown that modest support will make a crucial difference in one's career. Preference will be given to requests that have supplemental funding from the individual's department, college or other source. No more than one award perfaculty member will be made in each category.

NOTE: If you are a Participating Faculty funding may be available through here

What is Supported – Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Travel and Publication Costs

1. Travel to Present Research at a Conference

a. Awards up to $600 for conference expenses and/or fees within the contiguous 48 states and Washington DC.

b. Awards up to $1,000 for conference expenses and/or fees for North American locations outside of the contiguous 48 states and Washington DC; includes US territories and non-domestic destinations.

c. Awards up to $1,400 for conference expenses and/or fees located outside of North Americatra.

d. Awards up to $300 for virtual conferences.

e. Travel that starts in June and ends in July can only use one award.

f. Requests for travel awards should be made in advance of the travel. 

2. Publication Costs

a. Awards up to $300;

b. Awards are primarily intended to cover “page charges” for peer-reviewed professional publications;

c. Requests for indexing and other costs associated with scholarly publications will be considered;

d. Costs for multiple-author publications must be equitably distributed among co- authors and their respective institutions;

e. Normally, funds cannot be used for overcharges such as pages exceeding the publisher’s set limit or for rapid publication.

How Awards are Issued

Funding Timelines

HOW TO APPLY

Complete the online submission form: Faculty Development Awards Form.