SVSU Professional Growth Grant

SVSU Professional Growth Grant encourages scholarly activities such as pursuit of advanced course work or a degree in the faculty member's own or new disciplines; retraining to develop a new specialty, such as computer programming; to learn a new research skill, such as oral history techniques; or to develop a new pedagogical skill, such as competency-based instruction. Use this application to apply for one-time $1,500 Ph.D. program support.

SVSU Professional Growth Awards are awarded for one-year time period from July 1 through June 30. 

Eligibility: full-time faculty members on continuing appointment and administrative professionals in Academic Affairs.

Endowed Professors are ineligible to apply.

Faculty who have been awarded three Faculty Research or Professional Growth Grants (historically - unit committee award) in the last five years are ineligible for additional awards unless they have applied for external funding through Sponsored Programs.

Historic award amount of $5,000.

To apply, learn more and view grant guidelines, visit InfoReady, SVSU’s online internal grant application tool. The grant guidelines and applications only appear when being accepted, typically 90 days prior to the due date.

Applications are due by 4:30pm November 15 of each calendar year, or the next business day if the due date falls on the weekend. 

Current application guidelines supersede any information on this website and may be revised at any time by the appropriate SVSU committee(s) or authorized personnel. Applicants are encouraged to review the guidelines carefully and contact sponsoredprograms@svsu.edu if any discrepancies are identified so that website information can be updated. Thank you for your understanding.