Graduate faculty grants and awards
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Innovations in Graduate Education Award
The Chris Bakkum Graduate Program Support Endowment Fund will provide a $700 award to UWL faculty and academic staff with graduate faculty status who are working on the development or enhancement of innovative graduate programs, in keeping with the Wisconsin Idea.
Individuals who wish to apply should complete the application linked below. Please discuss your plan to apply with your graduate program director (or department chair if you are the graduate program director) since they will be asked to sign your application to indicate their support.
If you have questions, please reach out to Meredith Thomsen.
Award criteria
Engagement in graduate education at UWL
Applicants must have graduate faculty status at UWL and must demonstrate active engagement with UWL graduate programs through teaching, research, or supervision of graduate students, or through the administration and/or development of graduate programs. Any individual with graduate faculty status at UWL, whether faculty, IAS, or NIAS, are eligible to apply.
Experience with qualifying activities
Applicants must demonstrate experience with activities affiliated with their graduate program that develop or enhance innovation in the graduate program. The innovations should demonstrate benefit to citizens, educational institutions, businesses, or governments of the state, in keeping with the Wisconsin Idea. Examples include but are not limited to the following:
- Development of innovative new graduate programs that meet state needs
- Partnerships that engage graduate students with community organizations, educational institutions, businesses, or agencies
- Educational outreach related to a graduate program, beyond traditional academic settings
- Research aligned with a graduate program that demonstrates a benefit to the citizens of the state
When possible, preference will be given to applicants engaged in activities that demonstrate an entrepreneurial perspective, and which have the potential to be self-sustaining.
Recruitment Grants
Grants will provide up to $500 per program for faculty and staff for travel and other expenses related to student recruitment. Conference travel can be supported, if it includes some sort of significant recruiting activity. Expenses related to on-campus recruiting events (e.g. food for attendees) are also eligible for funding. Applications should be submitted in far advance of any proposed travel as practical.
Graduate & Extended Learning support for grants
Are you writing a grant to host a speaker, workshop or conference? Do you want to include community outreach as part of a proposal? Graduate & Extended Learning can provide support for grant-funded activities that go "above and beyond" the regular workload of an academic department.