PLU Awards and Grants for Faculty
There are various internal awards and grants at PLU available for PLU faculty to support teaching, scholarship and other innovative ideas. The details for each can be found at the links below.
Office of the President
The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation provides support for faculty, staff and students at Pacific Lutheran University who demonstrate unusually inventive, original and creative approaches to advance the mission of the university.
Office of the Provost
The university sponsors Faculty Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding accomplishments of the faculty in five areas of faculty work: teaching, advising, mentoring, research, and service. The recipients have been nominated and selected by their peers, signifying their high regard among those who know them well.
The annual Harstad Endowed Curricular Grants are intended to fund the development of curricula that highlight the culture, values, intellectual contributions, and history of Scandinavia to ensure that connections to the university’s heritage are vibrant, current, and accessible to students across fields of study.
The Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Awards are intended to enhance opportunities for the professional development of the university’s faculty, and are awarded annually. All members of the faculty, as defined by the Faculty Constitution (Article I, 1), are eligible.
Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education
The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education provides financial and limited logistical support to faculty interested in developing community-engaged scholarship and teaching. Click here for more information and to make a Community Engaged Learning Course Support Request.
Application opens Feb 1st / Deadline April 1st
The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education seeks proposals from faculty interested in incorporating high impact and experiential academic activities that expand knowledge of the African continent in the PLU community. Up to $4,750 is currently available from this fund. Priority will be given to projects that include African students and scholars. Proposed projects could include:
- Curriculum development grants to develop courses about Africa, courses taught in Africa, or courses developed jointly with African university partners
- Faculty-student research comprised of PLU faculty and students from Africa or an exchange involving faculty-student teams from both PLU and an African nation. This research could be done at PLU or as part of a travel-study program in an African country
- Partial support for Visiting scholars from Africa to teach a course at PLU, deliver a lecture, etc.
Click here for Dorothy and Wilbur Mancke African Program Development Fund
Application opens Feb 1st / Deadline April 1st
The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education seeks proposals from faculty interested in developing short-term study away and related onsite credit-bearing high-impact practices (e.g. undergraduate research or internships) for PLU students in Norway. Funding is intended to support prospective faculty leaders with travel related expenses to explore possibilities for program development and to make appropriate contacts and arrangements. Grant amounts are typically $4,000.
Click here for HM King Harald V Short-Term Study Away Program Development in Norway
Limited funds are available each year through the Wang Center for faculty who are planning to lead a short-term study away program for undergraduates. The purpose of this funding is to support prospective faculty leaders with their travel in order to explore possibilities for establishing new programs and to make appropriate contacts and arrangements, to enhance study away programming (particularly in underrepresented departments and majors), and finally, to enable more PLU students to participate in study away by expanding program offerings. The typical award amount is $3,000. Please note that these funds may only be used for travel expenses associated with the development of an approved study away opportunity, and may not be used for an unrelated project/activity such as research or conferences. Click here for more information about Wang Center Curriculum Development Grants.
All full time tenured, tenure-track, visiting faculty members, and associates to the faculty at PLU are welcome to apply. Individual faculty may apply for up to $4000 to support research. Proposals are strongly encouraged from faculty intending to conduct research in locations where they have had prior experience. Participation of emeritus faculty and members of the PLU staff for mentoring or research purposes will be considered in special circumstances. In determining the allocation of funds, priority will be given to full time tenured and tenure-track faculty. Click here to learn more about the Wang Center Faculty Research Grants.
Grant proposals are also invited from student-faculty teams and may receive awards in the range of $5,000 – $8,500. All full time tenured, tenure-track, visiting faculty members, and associates to the faculty at PLU are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to student-faculty teams who have not previously received Wang Center grant support; however, student-faculty teams engaged in on-going research may apply for a second grant. Proposals are strongly encouraged from teams intending to conduct research in locations where the student(s) and/or the faculty have had prior experience. Participation of emeritus faculty and members of the PLU staff for mentoring or research purposes will be considered in special circumstances. In determining the allocation of funds, priority will be given to full time tenured and tenure-track faculty. Click here to learn more about Wang Center Student Faculty Research Teams.
Colleges
The Kelmer Roe Fellowship funds a student to work with a Humanities faculty on a joint scholarly project that “bring[s] the wisdom of the Humanities disciplines to bear on enduring human questions and the contemporary problems of our time.”