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Grant Funding Opportunities

Mary Frances Early College of Education Internal Funding

Early Career Faculty Research Grant Program

This funding opportunity is strongly focused on developing research initiatives of new, tenure-track assistant professors in their first five years of employment in the College. Only one proposal may be submitted by an individual per funding cycle. Faculty may only receive funding once through this grant program.

Deadline to apply: Second Friday of February

Pushing the Grant Forward

The MFE COE has allocated funding to support faculty in improving the quality and competitiveness of their grant resubmissions. Successful applications to the Pushing the Grant Forward Competition will result in an improved grant proposal to be submitted during the current or following academic year. All MFE COE faculty who submitted an external research or training grant during the previous two years are encouraged to submit a proposal. Funds up to $15,000 per grant will be allowed.

Deadline to apply: Second Friday of August

Summer Time is Writing Time: Get Summer Funds to Write a Grant

The MFE COE Office of Research and Graduate Education has allocated funding to support faculty in writing external grant proposals. Faculty must dedicate a week of time between the third week of May and June 30th to work on an external grant proposal with assistance of a mentor and the MFE COE Office of Research and Graduate Education staff. Successful applications will result in the submission of an external grant to be submitted during the upcoming fiscal year. Up to three grants of $10,000 will be awarded.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The submitting faculty member must be faculty in the MFE COE who has not received external funding exceeding $25,000 in the last 5 years.
  • The mentor must have a history of external grant funding and be able to serve as PI, Co-PI, or consultant on the proposal.
  • The RFA to which the proposed grant will be submitted, must allow for indirect costs and an annual budget that exceeds $75,000.

Summer Time is Writing Time 2025 RFA (PDF)

Deadline to Apply: Third Monday in February

Intensive Research Semester

To support faculty members in their lifelong development as scholars, the Mary Frances Early College of Education provides an opportunity for faculty members to engage in pursuits that improve their scholarship, revitalize their creative energy, and inform them of new and innovative knowledge and practices with the ultimate goal of developing and enhancing their scholarship through a research semester.

To support this development, a faculty member may request one semester for intensive research in which they are released from instruction (up to two courses) and institutional service activities. Where needed, the College will replace the instruction to avoid the loss of credit hour production, and the department head will coordinate the coverage of other duties.

Who is Eligible?

Tenured faculty members who have been employed by the Mary Frances Early College of Education for at least five years are eligible to apply. Administrators (department heads, associate deans) are not eligible.

Please note that an individual may receive only one research semester every five years.

Deadline to Apply: Proposals for a Fall research semester must be submitted by Feb. 1, and proposals for a Spring research semester must be submitted by July 1.

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Funding for International Travel

Faculty members may simultaneously seek international travel funds from the Mary Frances Early College of Education and the Provost International Travel funds. An individual can only receive international travel funding once per fiscal year. Please apply for Provost funding when you apply for College funding. Email the completed forms to the Office of Research and Graduate Education as a single PDF file.