Faculty Excellence Grants

Call for Applications for 2022-2023

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 from the Deans on November 15, 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! The Faculty Excellence Grant Committee has created a new application packet to make it easier for faculty to prepare their proposals, including guidelines, reporting requirements, proposal format and process, evaluation criteria, and an optional proposal template.

Download the application here

View the information on a webpage

Please note this application packet should be submitted to the applicant’s Department/College office to be forwarded to [email protected] by

November 15, 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).