Grant-Writing
Mini-Sabbatical Program

Overview

The Culverhouse Grant Writing Mini-Sabbatical is a program intended to support faculty in their efforts to develop and submit high-quality proposals to grant programs. Through this program, each participant will receive:

  • Extensive support for their efforts to develop a grant proposal to submit to an approved funding agency or foundation.
  • Support to travel to the office of the funding agency or foundation she or he is targeting to meet with members of the funding agency’s or foundation’s staff to discuss the proposal
    • This is contingent on the recipient having made sufficient progress on her/his proposal.
  • A course release during the spring semester of the academic year of admission into the program to provide time for the recipient to work on her or his proposal.
    • If a spring semester course release is not feasible or either the recipient or recipient’s department, another semester can be chosen

In return, each recipient of a Culverhouse Grant Writing Mini-Sabbatical will draft and submit a quality proposal to an approved funding agency or foundation.

Apply for the Program

All faculty in the Culverhouse College of Business are eligible to participate and welcome to apply. However, priority will be given to faculty with the following characteristics:

  • Tenured Associate Professors
  • Evidence of a fundable stream of research
  • Strong support from their department
  • Attendance at each of the monthly meetings of recipients with the Associate Dean for Research
  • Monthly reports submitted to the Associate Dean for Research and the recipient’s Department Head documenting
    • Progress of the development of the proposal
    • Successful meeting of assigned deadlines
  • Participation in the Culverhouse Grant Incubator
  • Commitment to use the skills developed through this program to develop additional federal proposals
  • Willingness to help mentor other faculty and graduate students in grantwriting, including potentially serving as a mentor to future Culverhouse Grant Writing Mini-Sabbatical recipients
  • Willingness to collaborate with other faculty and graduate students in future grantwriting efforts
  • Presentation about the recipient’s research and/or experiences developing a grant proposal as part of a college-wide colloquium series
  • Completed proposal, either submitted or ready for submission to an approved grant agency or foundation, by August 15 calendar year immediately after the year of admission into the program (or soon after, depending on the deadline of the program the recipient is targeting)

Failure to meet these expectations will result in a one section increase in the recipient’s teaching load for the following academic year.

Submit your application

Culverhouse Grant Writing Mini-Sabbatical: Department Head’s/Director’s Recommendation

Culverhouse Grant Incubator

A recipient of a Culverhouse Grant Writing Mini-Sabbatical who has little or no background in writing grant proposals will also participate in the Culverhouse Grant Incubator (CGI), an intensive workshop series designed to build grant-writing skills and support faculty efforts to develop and submit a proposal to a funding agency or. Each monthly workshop covers grant-writing topics such as proposal expectations, techniques and more. Peers also provide regular feedback on applications as they are developed.

Teaching Release

Release from teaching one section during the spring semester of the academic year

Funded Visit

One funded trip to visit a program director to discuss the recipient’s proposal

Skill Development

Development of skills that could dramatically support recipients’ future research efforts

Publication Support

Support to develop high-quality, interdisciplinary research that could lead to top-tier publication

Community Support

Feedback, guidance, and advice through monthly meetings with other recipients

Other Benefits

Summer and grad student support, supplies, financing, travel and indirect funds