The Aspire team is excited to share the latest faculty programming designed to better serve current scholarship needs. These two opportunities support junior and established tenure-line faculty.
- Proposal Enhancement Grant: This opportunity supports preliminary research or scholarly projects to enhance the expertise needed to seek funding from an external agency. The expected outcome is the submission OR resubmission of a competitive grant proposal to an external funding agency.
- Arts & Humanities Emerging Scholarship Grant: This program supports the professional advancement of faculty engaged in scholarly and creative pursuits that use humanistic or any creative discipline. Projects must result in the presentation of a public forum (gallery exhibition, screenings, performances, etc.) or publicly available printed material (monograph, edited collection, journal article).
Eligibility: Faculty members must be in a tenure-line appointment. An individual may be awarded once every four (4) years. Maximum request: $12,500.
- Tenured: This award may be granted multiple times during one’s appointment at Ball State as long as all prior award reporting and external submission commitments have been met. Deadline: February 1
- Early Career (Years 1-7 pre-tenure): This award will be granted only once during the Early Career stage (formerly called Junior Faculty). Deadline: November 1
Questions? Contact the Aspire program by email aspire@bsu.edu, by phone 765-285-1600, or contact the Program Manager, Sarah Lee, directly at slee@bsu.edu.