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Carol Dobrunz Endowment Fund

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The UWL Carol Dobrunz Endowment Fund supports conference costs for non-tenured faculty or instructional academic staff (IAS) with a continuing appointment. The award may be used for conference related travel costs such as registration, airfare, car rental, mileage reimbursement, meals & incidentals, and lodging. 

To be eligible, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

  • Must be employed at UWL with at least a 75% appointment
  • Must be either a non-tenured faculty member or a member of instructional academic staff (IAS) with a continuing appointment
  • Must be attending a national conference within their discipline
  • May not have previously received this award

The amount of each award is determined based on the amount available from the Fund but will not exceed $1,000. To be eligible, the conference in the application must occur between July 1 and June 30 of the upcoming year.

Deadline

Proposals (Grant Proposal Reports from Digital Measures) due to senate@uwlax.edu on the last Friday in March

Spring 2024 Deadline: Friday, March 29, 2024

Guidelines/RFP 

  • Proposal narrative - See RFP for details
  • Budget – If you make changes to the budget template, please verify the formulas. Important notes:
    • This is a universal budget template.
    • Not all categories listed will be allowable for applications to this program.
    • Please refer to the RFP for allowable expenses.
  • Budget narrative
  •  Please scroll to the bottom of the screen for an instructional video.
    • The uploading process is demonstrated first in the video.
    • See minute 6:23 in the video for a demonstration of generating a grant proposal report.
  • No signatures are required.
  • Applicants should provide their chair/unit director and dean/division director with their proposal so that they may review it.
  • If you approve, communicate your approval (verbally, via email, etc.) to the applicant.
  • When the applicant uploads their proposal, they will initial in Digital Measures to indicate they have obtained the required approvals.
  • When the applicant submits their proposal, the chair/unit director and dean/division director will be CCed.
  • If you receive an email for a proposal that you have not seen and/or approved, you may contact the Provost Office at provost@uwlax.edu and request that the proposal be withdrawn from consideration.

Please contact the Faculty Senate Instructional Academic Staff (IAS) Committee Chair with questions (see the current Faculty Senate Committee Assignments).

[MediaSite tutorial: https://www.uwlax.edu/grants/faculty-research-grants/]