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Colgate Funding Sources

The university offers competitive funding for a wide range of faculty research and teaching activities. For programs with specific deadlines, requests for proposals are issued via email to all faculty.

Colgate Grants for Research and Other Scholarly and Creative Activities

Grants and leaves to support research and creative work in all fields. Please consult research council guidelines, budget form, and sample proposals (sample 1, sample 2, sample 3). 
Chair: Ahmet Ali Ay

Type of grant Maximum award Deadline

Discretionary Grants*

For the 2024-25 academic year, use the RC Discretionary Grant Form

 $1,750 / year
$3,500/year for tenure-stream assistant professors		 any time

Major Research Council Grant (6/1/25 – 8/31/26)

*For Picker, Leipzig, and Major Research Council Grants use this form

 $8,000 Jan. 24, 2025
Picker Fellowship (6/1/25 – 8/31/26) $12,000

Jan. 24, 2025
Leipzig Fund Grants (6/1/25 – 8/31/26) $10,000 Jan. 24, 2025

Senior or Associate faculty leave in 2025-26

For the 2024-25 academic year, use the RC Scholarly Leave Grant Form

 1-2 SLA credits Jan. 24, 2025

Publication Expenses Grant

For the 2024-25 academic year, use the RC Publication Expenses Grant Form

 $1,500 any time

Publication Subvention Grant

For the 2024-25 academic year, use the RC Publication Subvention Grant Form

 $3,000 any time

Student Wages

For the 2024-25 academic year, use the 2024-25 application

 150 hrs/semester; 200 hrs/summer any time


*Research Council Discretionary Grants: maximum $1,750 per year; $3,500 for tenure-stream assistant professors. Consult the guidelines for categories of support, which include research travel, non-student wages, and other research expenses. 

The Robert H. N. Ho Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative (MBBI) provides opportunities for Colgate faculty and staff whose research and/or teaching addresses topics related to mind, brain, and behavior to enhance their own work and their connections with colleagues from across campus. MBBI support is intended for faculty and staff from across departments, programs, and divisions at Colgate. Please see the Major and Discretionary Grant call as well as the call for New Connections, New Perspective Grants for more information. Please check out the fit guidelines about whether your project is a good fit for MBBI support.

Director:  Ben Lennertz

Type of grant Maximum award Deadline
Major Grant $20,000 or more January 24, 2025
Discretionary Grant

$5,000

$3,000 effective January 1, 2025

 anytime
New Connections, New Perspectives Grant $25,000 January 24, 2025

Grants for internal and external collaborations that bring expertise from different disciplines to bear on current and emerging scientific problems.
Director: Ahmet Ay
Web: Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute
 

Type of grant Maximum award Deadline
Major Research Grants $150,000 for 2 years Pre-proposal due by December 2, 2024; Full proposal due by January 24, 2025.
Minor Research Grants and Additional Activities $30,000 for 2 years Proposal due by January 24, 2025.
Discretionary Grants TBD Contact Picker Institute director

 

Grants for research pertaining to the upstate New York region, and for scholarly symposia, conferences, or workshops that address issues related to the region.
Director: Catherine Cardelús
Web: Upstate Institute
 

Type of grant Maximum award Deadline
Individual Scholarly Projects $5,000 January 24, 2025
Discretionary grants $500 any time
Funding for Symposia or Workshops $2,500 January 24, 2025

Funds for projects that examine how political and economic developments affect international affairs, relationships, and outcomes. It supports analysis, freedom of inquiry, and evidence-based argumentation (but not activism) principally in two focus areas: How the world order is affected by developments in developing countries and, STEM.

Funding opportunities for faculty research and scholarship closely related to these areas of intellectual inquiry to support fieldwork, archival work, dataset purchases, or other types of research support necessary to advance scholarly projects.

For details, see Lampert Faculty Support web page.
Director: Chad Sparber
 

Type of grant Maximum award Deadline
Lampert Faculty Scholars $5,000 January 24, 2025

Grants expand faculty and student research in areas related to public policy and public affairs. Visit the Public Affairs and Public Research Initiative for more information.

Director: Sam Rosenfeld

Type of grant Maximum award Deadline
Major research grant $10,000 January 24, 2025
Discretionary grants < $3,000 any time

Support for Colgate students to assist with research or creative projects chosen, designed, and proposed by faculty members. For details, see Faculty-Initiated Fellowships. Apply to department chair. 
 

Type of grant Deadline
6-10 weeks summer funding for Colgate student(s) mid-November

Short-term funding to sustain research programs of faculty who have previously brought in external grants. The investigator must have applied for continued external funding. Limited to 12 months’ support, for tenure stream and Category I faculty only. No deadlines; apply to Dean/Provost by emailing Trish St. Leger. 

Types of support

  • Equipment, supplies, student research stipends, publication costs, travel – to continue a research program.
  • Matching funds for required University contributions to external grant proposals.
  • If funds allow: support for developing a research program, for faculty who have not yet received external funding.

An allotment of up to $2,250 per year to attend or present at professional meetings. Up to $750 of this allotment may be used for research-related expenses, including books, membership in professional societies, and any other expenses directly associated with your scholarly or artistic work. Faculty participating in international conferences or meetings are eligible for $1,000 of funding over and above the usual annual allotment of $2,250; this incremental funding is available through the 2024-25 academic year. 

Eligibility: Full-time teaching faculty (regular or with an appointment of one year or more), Category I teaching faculty, Senior Lecturers and Senior Laboratory Instructors, post-doctoral fellows, and PERA faculty. (Note: Professional development for library faculty is administered by the University Librarian.) 

Reimbursable expenses: registration fees, transportation, accommodations, meals, and incidentals.

Follow Colgate's Travel Policy; submit receipts via Concur, accessible via the Colgate Portal. Division contacts:

Travel funds to develop scholarly humanities projects with colleagues at Humanities Corridor universities (Cornell, Syracuse, Rochester) and New York Six colleges (Colgate, Hamilton, Hobart & William Smith, Skidmore, St. Lawrence, Union); or to attend Humanities Corridor events. Apply to Yukari Hirata, Arts & Humanities Division Director.

Supplemental funding for conference travel and research expenses. Rolling deadline. For details, contact Beth MacKinnon, Arts & Humanities Academic Division Coordinator.

The Dean of the Faculty’s office maintains funds to provide limited salary support for faculty who receive prestigious academic-year fellowships or grants when the award requires a faculty member to take a leave without pay at a salary below regular Colgate salary. Faculty who plan to apply for a fellowship/grant that falls in this category are encouraged to contact the Grants office and Dean’s office in advance of applying. Details of the policy are available from the Dean of Faculty’s office.

Faculty Development Council Grants

The Faculty Development Council oversees the allocation of funding for (1) professional development for teaching and pedagogy, (2) course development, and (3) faculty travel related to course and professional development. Consult guidelines, FDC budget form, and the Kallgren Travel Grants website.
Chair: Ian Helfant

Type of grant Maximum award Deadlines
Major Grant $5,000 January 24
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Discretionary Grants $1,500 per year Rolling
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Teaching and Technology Micro Grants $500 per year Any time
APPLY ONLINE
Kallgren Travel Grants The amount of funding available through the Kallgren program this year is approximately $50,000. The number of proposals funded will depend on the number and scope of applications received by the FDC.  November 1, 2024
APPLY ONLINE

Brief descriptions and contacts are below; consult guidelines for details.
 

Type of grant Maximum award Deadline
Upstate Institute Course Development Grants 
(Contact: Catherine Cardelús)		 $4,000 + course-related costs October 15
COVE Service Learning Course Development Grants
(Contact: Jeremy Wattles)		 $4,000 + course-related costs

November 13

APPLY ONLINE
Lampert Collaborative Global Teaching Grants $100 -$1,000 Rolling


Community-Based Research (Upstate Institute) – Funding to develop or revise a course to include a significant community-based research component. Contacts: Catherine Cardelús  and Julie Dudrick.

Service Learning (COVE) – Funding to develop or revise a course to offer students immediate opportunities to apply classroom learning to support the work of community agencies.

Grants for Collaborative Global Teaching (Lampert Institute) – Funding to enable faculty to invite colleagues to provide guest lectures (or co-teach courses) from abroad. $100-$1,000. Contact: Chad Sparber, Director of the Lampert Institute.

Travel grants for preparatory travel for an individual faculty member in advance of directing a study group or extended study. Deadline: November 30, 2024. Contact: Joanna Holvey Bowles. Apply online.

Kallgren faculty travel grants for interdisciplinary groups of faculty; travel related to course development or scholarly development, or to explore a new study group or extended study site. Deadline: November 1, 2024. Visit the Kallgren Travel Grants site for details.

Colgate Funding for Campus Arts Events

The Colgate Arts Council (CAC) supports the arts at Colgate University, including music, theater and dance, creative writing, visual art and film. The CAC welcomes proposals from faculty in all divisions initiating public art events taking place during the academic year.

  • connect to a specific course and/or department/program curriculum and can be made accessible to the larger Colgate community, or;
  • facilitate campus engagement with local or regional artists or arts organizations in ways that support Colgate’s liberal arts curriculum.

More About Proposals to the CAC

Chair: Seth Coluzzi

Endowed Chair Funds

Endowed chair holders are provided a fund that can be used for expenses in support of the teaching, research, and service of the chair holder or his/her department.

Consortium Funding and Other Resources

Central New York Humanities Corridor

New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium

External (Non-Colgate) Grants

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Duke University Research Funding Database

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