Departments & Programs

College of Arts and Sciences Support and Development Awards

The Office of the Dean provides CASSDA grants to promote scholarly and creative work by College of Arts and Sciences faculty. New tenure-track faculty are especially encouraged to apply for these in order to support the expectations for tenure and promotion.  Currently, the award amount is $3,000 for most successful proposals.

Application guidelines and materials are available on e-mail or in the Associate Dean’s office.

All CASSDA Awards are synchronized with the fiscal year. Fall awards are to be used from January 1 to June 30, and Spring awards are to be used from July 1 to December 31. Faculty who receive awards are asked to file a final report and to agree to serve on the CASSDA review committee in the future.

Funding Guidelines and Limitations

The purpose of the CASSDA awards is to support and encourage scholarly and creative work by College of Arts and Sciences faculty. These awards exclude salary and ordinary travel to conferences, but do support travel for professional development or in order to pursue a particular scholarly or creative project. Specifically, CASSDA will fund the following types of activities:

• To attend workshops and seminars to enhance professional skills.
• To purchase small pieces of equipment or supplies related to specific scholarly or creative projects.
• To support travel for collaboration with a noted scholar or artist.
• To pay for page charges and other publication costs.
• To cover expenses associated with data collection.
• To conduct on-campus colloquia or seminars for the purpose of professional development.

CASSDA does not fund travel to conferences, travel to present papers, local travel (within a 50-mile radius), or purchase of equipment that is not tied to a specific research project.  CASSDA does not fund guest speakers or department speakers series.

Exclusions

In order to make a small grants fund available to a broad range of faculty and to encourage faculty to use CASSDA awards as seed money, faculty are limited to receiving one CASSDA grant every three semesters (not including summer), and are required to turn in a final report on a previous award before applying for a new one. In addition, faculty who apply for repeated funding for the same or a similar project are expected to apply for funding from other sources before applying for a second CASSDA award for the same purpose.