Application Guidelines and Forms (Back to Top)
Application Form
Application Guidelines
Program Information (Back to Top)
Funding Limit: $2,000
Duration: 12 months from award date, with final report due one month after close of grant.
Applications to OSP: First working Monday of every month during the academic year. The Faculty Scholarship Council does not meet to review proposals during the summer months.
Objectives (Back to Top)
Provides project opperating support of up to $2,000 to regular, full-time, tenured or tenure-track Western Kentucky University faculty for assistance for research and creative activity. Western Kentucky University's mission focuses on scholarship in its four forms -- discovery, integration, application, and teaching -- thus, all professional activity by faculty, regardless of the discipline, is encompassed in this definition of scholarship.
Eligibility (Back to Top)
Applicants must be employed as regular, full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty at Western Kentucky University. Faculty members appointed as endowed chairs or endowed professors are not eligible to apply.
No more than two Faculty Scholarship awards (New, Regular, or Summer) may be held at the same time. Two awards may be held at the same time ONLY for two significantly different projects. The Faculty Scholarship Council will not review a new application from a faculty member who has two currently open awards.
Funding / Expenses (Back to Top)
Up to $2,000 may be used for operating costs to carry out the project.
Allowable Expenses:
Travel vital to research; student labor and technical help (including fringe benefits) that cannot be provided through the departmental budget; special materials and equipment; books that cannot be obtained through interlibrary loan; necessary supplies; postage; cost of copying; and stipends to research participants.
Unallowable Expenses:
Travel to present at or attend a professional conference or travel to disseminate results of the project; typing a manuscript for publication that was not part of the internal grant activities; equipment or supplies which the applicant's department could normally purchase through the departmental budget; books which the library would normally acquire as part of its holdings; salary or any reimbursement to the researcher for time spent on the project; editing of a manuscript; research to complete a dissertation; and reimbursement for expenses incurred prior to the approval of the internal proposal.
Contact (Back to Top)
Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)
Address:
301 Potter Hall
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd. #11026
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1026
Telephone: 270-745-4652
Fax: 270-745-4211
Email: sponsored.programs@wku.edu