Faculty Grants and Recognition Opportunities

Faculty Recognition

For links to information and guidelines for nominating colleagues for a number of campus-based and SUNY awards including Distinguished Teaching Professor and Distinguished Service Professor, please see Opportunities for Faculty Recognition

Grants

In addition to external grants and other types of support for scholarly and creative activity and for curriculum innovation, campus-based resources are available for course development and revision, new program development, professional travel and training, conference participation, project collaboration, and more. A significant proportion of this funding is distributed in competitive review processes conducted by faculty peers (see program guidelines by clicking on links below).

State University of New York
Conversations in the Disciplines (COCID) grants Available to faculty for scholarly conference support; faculty and staff from other SUNY institutions must be invited to participate.

SUNY Oswego

 Summer Scholars Program grants to provide support for faculty in their ongoing research or creative activity programs by granting stipends to student assistants. Scholarly and creative projects that will culminate in peer-reviewed output or be presented to a public audience will have priority.
This call for proposals is being updated for the summer of 2012. A general call for proposals will go out to all students and faculty.

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants (two rounds: one each in fall and spring semesters , Curriculum Innovation Grants (one round: spring semester) and Student Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants (one round: spring semester) for research by faculty working with students during the subsequent 12-month period.

Deadlines vary: downloadable applications and forms are posted to the website of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
The Fall 2011 round of SCAC grants is now open for applications, due Monday, October 24th.  

For a listing of current and prior-year grant projects and reports, see collaborative grants; curriculum innovation (PDf, 62.9 KB) grants; scholarly and creative grants.

Other campus-based grants

• Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants are available to all students; must have faculty sponsorship. Please see the ORSP website for details.
• Additional information about undergraduate research grant opportunities.
• International travel grants available to faculty for travel outside the U.S.; requires approval of the Office of International Education.
• Rice Creek Associates (RCA) Small Grants Program is intended to support and encourage research, education and public service projects at Rice Creek Field Station (RCFS), particularly in areas of field biology, natural sciences, human sciences and art. Contact Professor Peter A. Rosenbaum at par@oswego.edu or Dr. Lucina Hernández at lhernan1@oswego.edu.
  
• UUP Professional Development Grants available to all faculty and professional staff when they are announced by United University Professions (UUP).
• Auxiliary Services Student/Faculty Interaction Fund, pays 50 percent of expenses up to $100 for events catered by Auxiliary Services that encourage interaction between faculty and students.

Within the Division of Academic Affairs the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) works with faculty to develop funding sources for scholarly, creative and curricular projects. Over the years ORSP has been instrumental in helping faculty attract financial resources from major foundations and other funders including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Health (NIH).

For additional assistance, contact the Office of the Provost.