Regular Faculty Scholarships
Application Guidelines and Forms
Application Form (excel)
Application Guidelines (pdf)
Submission: See deadlines below.
Program Information
Funding Limit: $2,000
<strong>Due Date:</strong> First working Monday of every month during the academic year. The Faculty Scholarship Council does not meet to review proposals during the summer.
Duration: 12 months from award date.
Final Report: Due 1 month after close of grant.
Program Objectives and Eligibility
Regular Faculty Scholarships provide support for project costs, excluding principle investigator salary, for regular, full-time, tuenured or tenure-track WKU faculty members. Projects must involve research or scholarly activity rather than professional development. Scholarship in all forms (discovery, integration, application, and teaching), regardless of academic discipline, will be supported.
Restrictions:
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 substantially different projects. The Faculty Scholarship Council will not review a new application from a faculty member who has two currently open awards.
This award mechanism excludes faculty members initially appointed as endowed chairs or endowed professors.
Allowable Expenses:
- Project related travel
- Student labor and technical help (including fringe benefits) that cannot be provided by the faculty member's department
- Necessary supplies and equipment
- Books that cannot be obtained through interlibrary loan
- Postage
- Photocopying
- Stipends or other incentives for research participants
Unallowable Expenses:
- Travel to present at or attend a professional conference or otherwise disseminate results of the project
- Preparation of a manuscript for publication that was not related to the project
- Equipment or supplies that the applicant's department would normally purchase
- Books that 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
- Reimbursement of research expenses incurred prior to approval of the project by the Faculty Scholarship Committee
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