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Beyond CRLT Grants:
Instructional Funds and Grants Available at UM
- Arts at Michigan offers
the following grants to the UM community: SStudents
Mini-Grants support student-led programs and group excursions
in the arts. Student organization leaders, resident advisors, and faculty/staff
supporting student groups may apply for up to $1,000 to support arts
excursions (with supplemental travel funding available), workshops,
and projects. Course Connections Funding support the
inclusion of arts-based learning in the undergraduate curriculum. Faculty,
instructional staff, and graduate student instructors are invited to
apply for up to $500 for faculty-sponsored excursions, workshops, and
projects related to courses.
The Arts at Michigan grants are provided by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. - Dean’s
Discretionary Funds for the Support of Faculty and Graduate Students
are provided to improve the climate, character, and quality of graduate education, to fund academic initiatives to enhance the quality and intensity of intellectual exchange, to support faculty travel (up to $500), and to support events benefiting the University community. Faculty, staff, and students who are enrolled in or employed by a Rackham unit are eligible to apply for funds. Grant funds are made possible by the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.
- Edward Ginsberg Center
for Community Service and Learning invites grant proposals that advance the Ginsberg Center's educational mission to engage students, faculty, and community members in learning together through community service and civic participation in a diverse democratic society. Grant awards are up to $10,000. The Ginsberg Center also makes a few small grants up to $500 each year to U-M faculty for costs associated with teaching a service-learning course, such as transportation, service materials, and pay for graduate student coordinators.
- Global Intercultural
Experience for Undergraduates Program sends small groups of undergraduates and faculty members to exciting locations in the U.S. and around the world for two to four weeks of engaging intercultural academic studies. The Program is open to all tenured, tenure-track, research track faculty, and individuals with continuing full-time Lecturer appointments on the Ann Arbor campus of the University. Faculty proposals designed to have an ongoing impact on undergraduate education or field study will receive priority. Grant funds are provided by the Office of the Provost.
- LSA Faculty Grants
for Innovations in Teaching with Technology are designed to improve learning in undergraduate classes through teaching with technology. Two levels of funding are available for projects using information technology in the classroom: level one at $5,000, and level two at $15,000 or less. The grants are open to all instructional staff in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Proposals for Level Two funding must include a letter of support from the faculty member's department chair or program director. Grant funds are provided by LSA.
- The Program of Faculty Support for Scholarly Activities on Women and Gender supports a range of scholarly activities on women or gender with grants ranging from $500 to $10,000. Its goal is to enhance disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship on women and gender at the University of Michigan. Support may be requested for individual scholarly activities (e.g., travel to research sites, purchase of research materials such as books, microfilms, or other items, research assistance) and for collaborative projects (e.g., pilot or initial research efforts, study groups, conference planning and implementation).
- The Public Goods Council invites proposals for projects that draw on public culture and cultural institutions to engage undergraduates and help shape their education. As many as eight grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded from a fund provided by the Provost's Office for course-related projects developed in collaborations between faculty members and Public Goods Council members. Grant funds are provided by the Office of the Provost.
- Research Support for University of Michigan faculty and staff from UM Funds.
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) provides a page
of links to research funding resources within U-M.
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