Welcome
to the Grants Program Office. You will find information below
about seeking opportunities for external funding and submitting
proposals, as well as links to useful external resources.
Monmouth College encourages faculty to seek
external funding for curricular and scholarly projects. This is not
only a way for faculty to acquire valuable support for their
teaching and research programs, but is also a means by which the larger research
and higher education community becomes acquainted with the
work Monmouth faculty and students are doing.
You are most welcome to call the Director of the Grants Program if you would like assistance in writing your
proposal, pointers regarding ways to identify possible sources
of external funding, or simply to brainstorm an
idea in preparation for your proposal-writing process.
The Mission of this
Office: to support
the college as an institution, as well as faculty and staff
individually, in seeking external funding; to share
resources and publicize opportunities for faculty development and
institutional grants; to assist with editorial and substantive
advice in the pursuit of external funding for research,
curriculum development and creative work; and to participate in Monmouth's programs of
institutional advancement and faculty development.
Brenda Tooley
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and
Director of the Grants Program
309-457-2277
btooley@monm.edu |
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External-Funding Opportunities and Resources
Links to
agencies, foundations and grant-opportunity aggregators. This is the Place to
Browse for Funding Opportunities!
Higher Education Resources and Proposal-Writing Guides
Links to national college and university
organizations that set the tone of and direction for many granting agencies'
priorities and preferences (especially useful for curriculum-development
proposals, proposals involving civic engagement and educating for democracy
initiatives, interdisciplinary initiatives, and research in the scholarship
of teaching and learning). This is the Place to Browse
to refine your sense of the most urgent, cutting-edge, innovative
topics and fields in higher education right now.
Moving Through the Proposal-Writing Process
All applications for external funding for equipment, student workers
and student research partners, matching funds and/or in-kind
services, leaves of absence, supplemental summer salary, and similar
items must be cleared by the Dean of the College and the Business
Office before submission.
In other
words, the College needs to know well in advance about any grant
proposal that, if awarded, would require financial commitment and
action on the part of the Business Office, Physical Plant, and/or
Academic Affairs Office and relevant academic departments - for
example, in hiring a temporary replacement in the department or in
securing matching funds.
Applications for summer
workshops, institutes, seminars and residencies - and other research
opportunities that do not impinge on the operation of the College
and its faculty and staff (beyond the applicant him- or herself) -
do not require prior approval or any filling-out-of-forms. You may
still wish to let your department chair and the Dean know that you
have applied for, for example, an NEH Summer Institute, as they may
have connections to additional resources or tips for the application
process that would be helpful to you.
They can also help publicize your accomplishment in the event of the
award!
Memo of Interest in Applying for External Funding
Form (in
PDF)
Not mandatory, but useful in the
extremely early stages of your planning process if you intend to
request funding for equipment, student workers and student research
partners, matching funds and/or in-kind services, a leave of
absence, supplemental summer salary, or similar items with monetary
implications. Because this form is largely a worksheet, you
may find it helpful to complete it early on, whatever the shape of
your proposal, as part of the brainstorming,
initial-proposal-drafting process. This worksheet can serve as the
basis for preliminary planning conversations with your department
chair, faculty project partners, and the Dean.
Declaration of Intent to Apply for External Funding
Form (in
PDF)
Necessary if you intend to request
funding for equipment, student workers and student research
partners, matching funds and/or in-kind services, a leave of
absence, supplemental summer salary, or similar items requiring
action and financial/reporting/IRS commitments on the part of the
College if the proposal were to be funded.
Setting up an account to manage external funds within the Business Office
at Monmouth (PDF)
Procedure for Grant Maintenance (will be a link)
Making annual and final reports to the granting agency (will be a
link)
Monmouth College
Guidelines for travel, accommodation, conference registration and other
expenditures are available on the internal Mailbox Outlook page,
annually updated and posted by Human Resources. See
also
IRS Guidelines.Internal
Faculty-Development Opportunities
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