Faculty and Staff Grants and Funding

Faculty and Staff Grants and Funding

Outreach and Engagement Grant Opportunities

The Office of Outreach and Engagement provides grant funds through a competitive process to university faculty and staff who hold PI status. Grants will be awarded at a maximum amount of $20,000 to support development of impact reports for programs, performances or exhibits; development of a public policy document or impact report; development or implementation of a program, performance, exhibition, or initiative based upon previous research, assessment, or public input; or enhance or expand a program that extends community access to the university, broadly defined.

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Outreach and Engagement Staff Grants

The Office of Outreach and Engagement offers two grant opportunities for university staff: Outreach and Engagement Professional Development Grants and Outreach and Engagement Community Programs and Events Grants. Both grants are for a maximum of $500.

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International Affairs

The Office of International Affairs funds grants and scholarships that are made available to faculty, graduate students, professional students, and undergraduate students at The Ohio State University. These opportunities provide funding for interdisciplinary conferences and workshops on international themes, travel, international collaborative research, pre-dissertation research, as well as study abroad programs. International Affairs also administers the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays grants and serves as the campus representative for the Fulbright Scholars program.

All of these grant programs serve to promote international educational opportunities that will have a lasting impact on increasing global awareness and understanding.

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Community-Based & Service-Learning Course Development Grants

The Office of Service-Learning offers Community-Based & Service-Learning Course Development Grants. These grants of up to $4,000 are available to any Ohio State University instructor who would like to develop or improve a service-learning course. This includes courses offered at regional campuses and undergraduate or graduate level courses. Courses can be delivered in-person, online, or a hybrid - whatever works best for you and your community partner.

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Engagement Scholarship Consortium Grants

Engaged Scholarship Research/Creative Activities Grants Program for Faculty

Conducting scholarship that is mutually beneficial for the university scholar and for the community is a topic of great interest to members of the Engaged Scholarship Consortium (ESC). The ESC Scholarship committee has been charged with the role of helping to facilitate this outcome for higher education faculty. In response to this need, a small grants program has been developed.

No indirect costs will be associated with this seed award.

The goals of the program are as follows:

  • Increase faculty involvement in engaged scholarship
  • Increase awareness of the wealth of engaged research/creative activities occurring at member universities
  • Enhance the level and amount of engaged research/creative activities that occur at member universities
  • Enhance the ability of ESC member faculty to conduct engaged interdisciplinary research/creative activities within and between member universities

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