Faculty Scholarship | Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

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The Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning now includes scholarship development to provide a range of services for faculty bringing research funding to campus.

Toward these goals, we can provide several broad categories of support:

Help faculty find relevant funding opportunities for their research, scholarship, and creative endeavors.
Work directly with faculty to support effective proposal writing and development.
Develop and curate written guides and tips related to proposal writing.
Provide periodic scholarship events and other professional development for faculty.
Work with other offices and institutions to overcome challenges that may arise during the proposal process.

Please email, call 541.552.6447, or stop by the CATL office in Hannon Library Room 321 to request assistance in any of the areas listed above. The following information on finding funding is provided for your reference; we will continue to add resources to this page.

How to Find Funding

Email Anne Sebanc to search grant opportunities for you—include keywords or project description—or set up a meeting to discuss your scholarship interests.
Use sponsored programs resources.
Search using free services at Grants.gov, Seattle University’s Curated Funding Database or Oregon Community Foundation.
Look for grant resources available in your discipline from your professional organizations and at conferences and/or ask colleagues about their grants.
Sign up for funding alerts provided by grantors.

Federal Funding Alert Guides

Grants.gov — All federal grants will be posted here and you can subscribe to receive notifications including subscribing to all grant notices, selected notices based on specific criteria, or notices based on funding opportunity number.
Department of Education — Recent Federal Register notices RSS feed.
Department of Energy ARPA-E Newsletter — Subscribe to receive ARPA-E newsletters and news alerts.
EPA Research Grants Listserv — Sign up to receive notifications of new funding opportunities.
National Institutes of Health NIH Guide LISTSERV — Subscribe to receive weekly email with the Current Weekly Table of Contents for the NIH Guide, including links to announcements published during the week.
National Science Foundation Update — Subscribe to receive updates on new content added to the NSF website in the categories you select.
National Endowment for the Humanities — Subscribe to press releases and news articles.
National Endowment for the Arts — Subscribe to newsletters based on different types of arts and research.

General Funding Alerts

These resources are mainly foundation and corporate funding opportunities.

Candid Newsletters: Candid offers several email newsletters, including an RFP Bulletin, a weekly newsletter of recently announced Requests for Proposals from private, corporate, and government funding sources.
Grant Station Insider: Grant Station offers several email newsletters by discipline and topic (e.g., education, environment, youth development) under mission focus. It also has Canadian and International newsletters.

We recommend selecting the federal agency that fits your scholarship best as a starting point. As some of these websites are difficult to navigate and customize for your funding topics, Anne would be happy to assist you in setting up those alerts.

Sabbatical Funding

Sabbaticals provide unique opportunities for scholarship development and funding. Search using the following links... keep in mind that external grant deadlines often precede SOU sabbatical deadlines — start the search process early and plan for contingencies in your SOU sabbatical proposal!

University of Oregon has curated this list of sabbatical fellowships and residencies.
Residency search lists opportunities for scholars, not just for artists.
SOU internal grants can be used on sabbatical projects.
Tips for funding sabbaticals curated by CATL for SOU faculty describe different types of sabbatical opportunities, benefits and how to find them.

Proposal Development

Idea board After identifying a request for proposals or grant application for which you would like to apply, Anne Sebanc can assist with proposal development by highlighting the request for proposal (RFP) and talking about the specific content to address in the proposal. Once you begin drafting and have some of the details of your submission (at least 4 weeks from the deadline), complete the Intent to submit form and Suzanne Cutler in Sponsored Programs will help with budget, approvals, and submission of your grant application.

Review the grants life cycle at SOU and let us know if you have any questions.

Consider questions to ask at various steps in proposal development.

Scholarship Repository

Share your work! Faculty are invited to submit their scholarship in any digital form to the institutional repository sponsored by Hannon Library. When you deposit your work in our institutional repository, more researchers and students can view your work. The repository also provides persistent URLs for every item, making it easy for you to share your archived work with colleagues.