The Aspire team is excited to share the latest faculty programming specifically designed to better serve current scholarship needs. These two new opportunities will continue to support junior and established tenure-line faculty.
Proposal Enhancement Grant: This opportunity is to support preliminary research or scholarly projects to enhance the expertise needed to be successful in seeking 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 is designed to support 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. Applications will be accepted through the InfoReady portal.
- 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, 2024.
- 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, 2025.
For questions or assistance, please 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.