Faculty Excellence Grants

Call for Applications for FY2023

Provost Robert Mokwa, through the Center for Faculty Excellence, invites applications from tenure track faculty for the Faculty Excellence Grants (FEG) Program. The FEGs will have a maximum award of $5,000 each. The goal of FEGs is to enable faculty to engage in activities that will enhance scholarship. Faculty in all disciplines are eligible to submit proposals.

Applications are accepted TWICE A YEAR to offer faculty flexibility in planning for their success:

Round 1 - Submitted in the spring: The call for proposals comes out in early February and proposals are due from Deans on March 11, 2022. Faculty will be notified by the beginning of May and the funding will begin in July 2022. These grants will need to be spent by June 30, 2023.
Round 2 - Submitted in the fall: The call for proposals comes out at the end of September and proposals will be due on November 4, 2022. Faculty will be notified by early December and the funding will begin in December. These grants will need to be spent by June 30, 2023 (~6 months).

NEW! Faculty Excellence Grants will be submitted via the online submission portal available here (Chrome is the recommended browser). Download the application packet and then create a PDF of your proposal that will be uploaded to the online submission portal.

Download the application here

View the information on a webpage

Please note this application packet should be submitted as a PDF to the online portal by

November 4, 2022.

A small portion of the funding is reserved to strengthen the research programs of women-identifying faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines and underrepresented areas of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS).