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Faculty Travel Grants

To support faculty research and scholarship and overall professional development, the Offices of the President, Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Administration and Finance, and the Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development have allocated $100,000.00 in travel funding for full-time faculty.

Beginning with the 2025-26 academic year, faculty will have one opportunity to apply for the Faculty Research Travel Grant. Faculty may receive one travel grant per fiscal year(July 1st to June 30th) if eligibility criteria are met.

TRAVEL GRANT PROCESS UPDATE:

Beginning July 1, 2024, in order to enhance the Travel Grant application process to better serve faculty travel needs, the travel grant application link will remain open on a continual basis.  There will no longer be set travel grant rounds. 

 

Please note that travel grants will fund U.S. continental travel only.

 

Applications will be reviewed on a two-week rotation.  Applications should be submitted a minimum of one month prior to travel to allow time for the review and award process and for the Chrome River Travel Pre-Approval process.

 

  • Faculty Research Travel Grant

Faculty research travel to national peer-reviewed conferences for presentations of original scholarship, as well as travel for the purpose of collaborating with program managers of funding agencies.  Eligible faculty members must hold full-time positions; visiting/emergency temporary faculty, and adjuncts are not eligible to apply.

Faculty must be conducting a conference presentation and proof of acceptance of the presention proposal is required in the application.

Individual grant award funds remain $1,000 or $1,500.  Amounts my be reduced to match anticipated total travel costs.

While all full-time faculty applications will be considered for funding, awarding of funds will be prioritized based on the following criteria:

  • Graduate faculty with Full Membership (formerly Level II) status,
  • Graduate faculty who teach or research in a doctoral program,
  • Tenured or tenure-track status (Professor and Associate Professor rankings prioritized),
  • Faculty who do not hold an Endowed Professorship or Endowed Chair, and who do not have travel funds from funded programs,
  • Availability of other funding sources (such as grant funding),
  • Non-STEM faculty and/or non-STEM presentations,
  • Purpose of proposed travel,
  • Contribution of travel to the faculty member, department, college, and/or University, and
  • Overall quality of the application.

Faculty Research Travel Grant Guidelines can be found at Faculty Travel Grant Guidelines

  • Travel Grant Application Process

One application process will be used for submission of the Faculty Research Travel Grant.

Please ensure that all requested information is completed before submitting the online application.

Faculty are eligible for one travel award per fiscal year (July 1st to June 30th), assuming eligibility criteria are met.

Refer to the Faculty Travel Grant Guidelines for information regarding purpose, eligibility, priority criteria, application process, and award procedures.

 

Click here to submit an online application