Aspire Faculty Funding Opportunities
- Domestic Travel: This program supplements travel funds provided by the faculty member's college and department to support domestic (within the United States) conferences, scholarly presentations, and/or artistic performances. Limited funding is available.
- Maximum award: $500 per faculty member
- Deadline: 15th of each month (no more than 2 months ahead of planned travel)
- Individual Development Support (Non-tenure line): This program provides NTL faculty, employed at Ball State for at least 3 years, to undertake activities to advance their development as scholars, including but not limited to: workshops or conference travel for excellence in teaching, scholarly presentations, performances, and/or professional development.
- Maximum award: $500 per faculty member per year
- Deadline: 15th of each month
- International Travel: This program supplements travel funds provided by the faculty member's college and department to support conferences, other scholarly presentations, and/or artistic performances undertaken outside of the United States.
- Maximum award: $700 per faculty member
- Deadlines: February 1st; April 1st; June 1st; August 1st; December 1st
- Published Scholarship Support: This fund covers publication expenses like reprints, processing charges, and page fees. To qualify, the work must be accepted or published in a refereed journal. Support applies to open-access publications listed in the Directory of Open-Access Journals and subscription journals that allow hybrid open access for a fee.
- Deadline: 15th of each month
All Aspire applications are submitted through InfoReady.
Please review the full guidelines for all these opportunities on the Aspire Internal Grants website.
Questions may be submitted to aspire@bsu.edu.