2025-2026 Funding Programs

The Office of the Dean is excited to share the 2025-2026 Funding Awards

Congratulations to All the grant awardees for 2025-26.

Faculty Travel Funding

Priority Deadline for Department Chairs: Closed

The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to announce funding to support faculty travel related to scholarly and creative activity in this 2024-25 academic year. This funding supports faculty travel related to research/scholarship/creative activity and conference presentation/participation/attendance. This funding may be used for reimbursement for travel during the 2024-2025 AY, including travel already conducted provided that the travel followed proper university protocol and received advance approval.

Eligibility & Terms for Faculty Travel Funds

Open to all faculty. Priority funding by faculty rank:

1. Probationary faculty.
2. Associate Professors.
3. Full Professors, Lecturers, and FERP.

Maximum Funding:

• $800 in-state or not presenting/disseminating.
• $1,500 North America (includes Canada/Mexico)
• $2,000 International

Funds are not transferable to other travel, uses, or persons without prior approval of the Dean. Faculty on leave without pay are not eligible.

APPLICATION PROCESS

1. Faculty must submit a written funding request to their Department Chair who will review it, and if recommended, prioritize the request. Department chairs will set the department deadline for faculty travel funding requests.
2. Travel Funding requests to department chairs must include/attach a completed A&L Supplemental Travel Form. If travel has passed in this academic year provide the Concur approval.
3. The department chair will submit the completed request with attachments and priority to Arts and Letters Professional Development al-profdev@csus.edu by Closed.
4. The Dean's Office will notify applicants and departments of approved travel funding with an award memo. This award memo must be included with the Concur travel authorization request that is required prior to travel.

ADDITIONAL TRAVEL FUNDING INFORMATION

• All requests for travel authorization must be submitted in Concur Travel. Please work with your department travel coordinator to ensure compliance with ALL university travel policies BEFORE submission. All faculty must complete training in Concur Travel before the Concur application is available for use.
• Funds are not transferable to other travel, uses, or persons without prior approval of the Dean.
• Faculty on leave without pay are not eligible for Faculty Travel Awards

For more information on College Travel requirements and processes and travel forms please visit the college intranet Travel webpage: https://www.csus.edu/college/arts-letters/internal/faculty-travel.html

Faculty Scholarly & Creative Activity Award Opportunity

Priority Deadline: Closed

The College of Arts and Letters is pleased to support the Scholarly & Creative Activity Awards Program for the 2024-2025 academic year. This funding supports faculty contributions to their disciplines through research, scholarly, and creative activity. Recipients must commit to producing a deliverable such as an article, book chapter, award proposal, new work of art (e.g. visual, musical, literary, performative, or curatorial), etc. via professional development funds for spring 2025 (funds can be carried forward to fall 2025 if needed) or additional pay for summer 2025. Faculty receive funding awards upon project completion/submission of the deliverables.

Priority will be given to proposals that:

• Complete an established project
• Launch a new direction in scholarship/creativity
• Provide seed funding for external grant applications
• For proposals for seed funding, among the required deliverables is a complete, vetted, and submitted grant application to an external funding/granting agency. This will require collaboration with the Dean’s Office and ORIED.

Funding may be used for:

• Travel necessary to complete the project (including travel for disseminating results).
• Purchasing software or data, small equipment, materials and supplies, etc.
• Purchasing editorial assistance, covering publication costs, etc.

Click Here For FACULTY SCHOLARLY & CREATIVE ACTIVITY (SCA) Application - Closed

Click Here for 2024-2025 AY Budget Template - Closed

Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention Department Grant

Priority Deadline: Closed

The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to offer funding to departments to support student outreach, recruitment, and retention efforts. Departments and Programs are strongly encouraged to use this opportunity to develop strategic plans to expand their reach/presence in underserved communities, increase enrollment, grow major programs, advance students’ academic progress, etc.

Proposals should include short- and long-term plans that cover the current 2024-2025 AY and beyond. The College encourages proposals that include: 1) cross-departmental/program collaboration, particularly for travel/site visits, and/or 2) coordination with SAGE and/or department SSP.

Proposals should be a maximum of 750 words and include:

• Overview/description of specific outreach, recruitment, and retention plans and timeline for implementation
• Explanation of where the department/program currently stands in terms of enrollment, number of majors/minors, graduation rates, etc., with relevant benchmarks to help situate and lend coherence to the proposed plan
• Description of expected reach and projected impact on recruitment and retention, particularly in relationship to any previous program reviews, assessment plans, and/or action plans.
• Budget of anticipated costs.

Note: Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention funding covers only direct costs related to efforts, activities, etc., and funds may not supplement faculty/staff compensation. For example, funding may be used to reimburse mileage expenses to and from—but not time spent at—an off-campus recruitment activity.

Proposals must be emailed to Arts and Letters Professional Development al-profdev@csus.edu by the department chair by Closed.

Curriculum Redesign Award

Priority Deadline: Closed

The College of Arts and Letters is pleased to support Curriculum Redesign projects for the 2024-2025 academic year or carried forward into the 2025-2026. This funding supports efforts to offer an innovative curriculum to attract students, improve time to degree, engage students in current and evolving disciplinary perspectives, research, technology, etc. Curriculum Redesign Awards will be in the form of professional development funding to be awarded at the time of project completion. Project completion is defined as the approval of Form As and/or Bs submitted to the college curriculum committee for review and shepherding the proposal through to implementation. Specifically, implementing course revisions requires the department chair’s authorization for the redesign to be implemented across all sections with a timeline for offering it in the schedule.

Faculty collaborations are encouraged as well as proposals from across programs/disciplines. Priority will be given to Curriculum Redesign proposals that focus on substantial revisions to large-capacity and impactful courses and/or substantial revisions to programs or program pathways to:

Implement best practices to demonstrably reduce DFW rates and equity gaps.

• Improved preparation for transfer students new to a discipline/field – to offer pre-requisite and pipeline courses on an accelerated schedule/format to catch them up to their cohort and preserve the 2-year pathway.
• Revise courses to improve inclusive and equity-minded teaching and learning for large or multi-section courses – changes must be implemented across all sections of multi-section courses.
• Revise courses and/or program pathways to include a substantial element of experiential learning for students.

Click Here For CURRICULUM REDESIGN Application - Closed

Click Here for 2024-2025 AY Budget Template - Closed

Staff Professional Development Grant Award

Priority Deadline: Closed

The College of Arts and Letters is pleased to offer Staff Professional Development Awards for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. This award supports the professional development of college administrative and technical staff in their professional fields and in their administrative or technical capacities. All full-time probationary and permanent staff in the college are eligible to apply for funding.

Types of professional development opportunities include:

• Conferences or workshops to develop/refine Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities relevant to improving your success in your current position.
• Professional or continuing education workshops to expand your skill set to improve department or college functions/operations.
• Certifications in professionally relevant areas.

Recipients of the award must commit to completing the professional development project/opportunity and to applying their enriched skills toward improvements in their department and the college. Award recipients will submit a report upon the completion of the professional development project/opportunity identifying the skills developed and their potential application in the department or college.

Professional Development projects are intended to support activities directly related to completing the project. Funding may be used for (subject to restrictions):

• Travel necessary to complete the project/training/workshop.
• Fees for the training/learning/certification opportunity.
• Purchasing equipment, materials and or supplies, etc.

**Funds MAY NOT be used to support staff members' salaries

Click Here For Staff Professional Development Grant Application - Closed

Past Awardees

College of Arts & Letters Summer Scholarly Awards 2023-2024

College of Arts & Letters Summer Scholarly Awards 2022-2023

Other Travel Funding Opportunity Resources

Other Travel funding opportunities may be available with:

• UEI
• ORIED - This page has a Searchable Funding Database - Pivot
• Summer Online Grant 2026
• Grants Academic Affairs
• Anchor University Grants
• Center of Teaching and Learning Grants and Funding
• Graduate Excellence & Engagement Probationary Faculty Development Grant