Ongoing Grant Offerings

IMPORTANT 2024-2025 TRAVEL GRANT INFORMATION

Note: This policy does NOT apply to adjunct faculty professional development funds 

Funds for full-time faculty travel remain restricted due to budget cuts to Augsburg’s Faculty Development Program. Because of this, the Faculty Development Committee (FDC) has updated the grant review procedure and policy to ensure more equitable funding for 2024-2025.

Application Deadlines: To ensure equitable distribution of grant funding, the FDC will be reviewing grants in bulk four times during the year.  The Faculty Development Committee has adopted a strict submission deadline policy and applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered. However, faculty are free to apply in the next cycle. Please note that you may submit a grant application at any time before your preferred deadline; however grants will not be reviewed until the deadline closes.

Round 1 Application deadline: May 15, 2024

Round 2 Application deadline July 15, 2024

Round 3 Application deadline October 15, 2024

Round 4 Application deadline March 15, 2025

Notification of Award Decision: All applicants will be notified whether or not their application has been funded (fully or partially) within 3 days after the deadline for submission. All applicants that meet the basic requirements (e.g. faculty status, etc…) will be funded unless we receive more applications than can be funded each quarter. If more applications are submitted than we can fund, we will evaluate each application using the Priorities for Grant Funding. 

Priorities for Grant Funding: These prioritizations are not absolute, are not weighted equally, and no individual prioritization disqualifies a grant from being funded. These are only in play if we do not have enough funding for all applicants. 

  1. Prioritize pre-tenure faculty vs. tenured or non-tenure track faculty
  2. Prioritize those who did not receive travel funding in the last fiscal year
  3. Prioritize presentation/original work vs. participation or attendance only
  4. Prioritize taking/participating w/students vs. no student involvement
  5. Prioritize those who have not received travel funding this fiscal year

Thank you for your understanding. Please contact OFD (facdev@augsburg.edu) if you have any questions about this policy or would like more information.


Professional Travel Grants for Faculty

Professional Travel Grant Application

  • Currently available from June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025
  • Full-time Faculty professional development funds (including professional membership costs) are capped at $1,500 per fiscal year. If applicable, this limit is prorated by FTE. 
  • Adjunct Faculty travel funds are capped at $750 per fiscal year and are only available for adjunct faculty members who meet the criteria set for in the SEIU Local 284 Collective Bargaining Agreement for travel funds.

Work Culture Grant

Work Culture Grant Application

  • These grants are intended to foster learning communities, working groups, and other collaborative efforts among faculty and staff. Amounts vary by project but include up to $250 for activities such as teaching, reading, or writing groups.
  • Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Grants are first come, first served.

Professional Membership Reimbursement

Reimbursement for professional memberships differs depending on their type. If they are required for accreditation, then they are budgeted on a department level, and you would talk to your dean or school director about possible funding. If they are required to register for a conference and they reduce the cost of attending the conference, then they should be submitted as part of a travel grant application. If they aren’t needed for either of those purposes, then we don’t reimburse for them anymore.