The College of Arts and Sciences provides funding of up to $1,200 for approved research or teaching-related activities either during the academic year or the summer following the academic year. Grant funds may be used for such things as travel, equipment and supplies, library materials, assistance with publication and other research, teaching needs or curriculum development. These funds may be used to pay research assistants but not for salary support for the faculty member. This program is intended to supplement other sources of funding available to faculty, who are encouraged to use it to enhance their chances of obtaining external support for their research and/or teaching programs.
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Examples of Proposals
Eligibility:
All academic employees of the College who are engaged full-time in the teaching and/or research programs of the College are eligible to apply for these awards. The College aims to provide resources for faculty research and teaching activities to the greatest number of faculty possible. In light of this, it is less likely that funding for an individual faculty member under the Faculty Enrichment Grant program will exceed $1,200 in a given fiscal year (July 1-June 30). Faculty already funded are eligible to apply, but other things being equal, funding such individuals is less likely under this program. Also, for the same travel-related activity, a faculty member may usually receive either a faculty enrichment grant or college money under the 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3 "match" program, but not funding from both sources.
Deadlines:
Deadlines for the submission of proposals are: September 1, November 1, and March 1. Applications for travel support should be submitted well in advance of the anticipated travel. Faculty members are urged to apply in the March 1 round if travel is planned for the following summer or fall. Similarly, faculty members are urged to apply in the fall if travel is planned for the following spring. Applications submitted with less lead time, but submitted by the deadlines, will be considered, but College financial commitments may not be possible prior to the faculty member’s making travel arrangements.
If funding is awarded, a final report (no more than two pages) discussing the outcome of the proposed project/activity must be emailed to Julie Dolph (jdolph@ou.edu) in the Dean’s Office no later than September 1 of the following year.
Application Procedures:
Prepare a brief proposal of no more than four pages and submit the completed proposal electronically as a PDF or Word file to the appropriate chair/director. The proposal should include the following:
- A completed cover sheet listing all expenses and previous funding. Download cover sheet by clicking here.
- A brief statement of the purpose of the project and/or activity.
- A brief discussion of how the project/activity is relevant to ongoing teaching and/or ongoing research programs.
- A description of the anticipated outcome of the project/activity and an appropriate methodology for assessing the outcome (e.g., a paper will be published in a nationally recognized journal; an experiment will be conducted, the results of which will lead to a publication; a meeting will be attended to present a paper; a new course will be developed, which will be offered in the future.) Relevant information about the dissemination of the project/activity outcome (if applicable) is desirable.
- A detailed budget for the project/activity.
- A summary of funding received or applied for, if any, to support the project/activity. Please give specific external sources of funding as well as internal sources such as presidential travel grants, 1/3-1/3-1/3 requests, any program though the Vice President’s Office for Research and your own departmental funding.
- Projects including research with human subjects will require IRB approval before funds are provided.Projects using laboratory animals, radioisotopes, biohazards or rDNA must include a copy of the IACUC or Biosafety Committee approval letter.
Evaluation of Proposals:
- Each department/school should establish a mechanism for evaluating and ranking proposals from its unit. Departments/schools should forward the results of these evaluations and rankings electronically, together with each proposal via email to jdolph@ou.edu in the Dean’s Office on or before the scheduled deadlines.
- When the chair or director of a department or program submits a proposal for a Faculty Enrichment Grant, we request that the support letters and rankings be written by a member of Committee A who is not submitting a proposal. If the situation arises that all members of Committee A are also submitting proposals for Faculty Enrichment Grants, we request that another (preferably tenured) faculty member in the unit write the support letters and rank the proposals. If this is not possible, we request that the chair or director not include themselves in the ranking. The Arts and Sciences Support of Teaching and Research Committee would need to make the decision about that proposal based on the proposal alone.
- The committee will review all proposals and the recommendations of the departments/schools, and will submit its recommendations for funding to the Dean. Based on past committee evaluations of proposals submitted, we suggest that your chances for being funded increase if your proposal:
- conforms to the four-page limit
- can be evaluated by colleagues unfamiliar with your research/teaching area
- contains a minimum of jargon or technical language
- focuses on original research (if a research proposal)
- has lasting value/effects for students, beyond that of one class (for a teaching proposal)