Grants Overview

This website provides requests for proposals (RFP) for the grant programs available to tenured or tenure-track faculty members at Shippensburg University (SU). Each year the SU Foundation, Provost's Office, and College Deans provide funds to support faculty professional development. Currently, CFEST supports three different grant programs:

Travel Grant: Supports faculty travel to conferences for presentations, conference organizing, or required attendance for national officers.

| Visit Travel Grants Program

Faculty Training and Continuing Education (FTCE): Supports efforts to improve pedagogy, teaching, or scholarship through attendance at workshops or other innovative approaches.

| Visit FTCE page

PASSHE and SU Faculty Professional Development Council (FPDC): Supports faculty professional development including, but not limited, to: (1) research, (2) public service, (3) creative and performing arts, (4) Innovation in Teaching, (5) Individual and career enhancement, and (6) Development of an extramural grant proposal.

| Visit FPDC page

Annual Reports

Click and download CFEST Annual Reports (pdf):

Important Updates for 2020-21 Academic Year

  • New Shippensburg University Travel Request Form
  • Mileage reimbursement is $0.575 per mile
  • Travel continues to be suspended due to Covid19. Travel grants can be used to cover virtual conference registration fees. A travel request form is still required for reimbursement.
  • To request a travel advance, applications cannot be submitted at the deadline prior to travel, they must be submitted at the previous deadline
  • The SU Travel Request Form may be signed with e-signatures. After obtaining applicant and department chair signatures, email the form to both the dean and their administrative assistant.
  • Travel grant only: Conference publication fees are now an allowable expense
  • Itemized meal receipts are not required. Faculty should only claim their actual costs (up to the per diem rate) for the destination city, minus meals included in the registration fees
  • Faculty Training and Continuing Education Award limit: $1500
  • Travel Grant Award Limit: $1000
  • All post award paperwork must be submitted to CJ Ezell in the CFEST Office, located in within the Institute for Public Service and Sponsored Programs Office, HH 203 (cjezel@ship.edu)

Important Reminders:

  • Travel Grant and Faculty Training and Continuing Education grant programs will be accepted via the online application
    • For technical support with your application, please contact: Institute for Public Service and Sponsored Programs at x1251
    • For questions regarding your application, please contact: CFESTgrants@ship.edu
    Grant applications for all CFEST Grant Administration programs must be completed and submitted the deadline before you travel / complete workshop or training
  • Summer travel (May-September 2021): Faculty must apply for CFEST Travel and FTCE grants by the May 1, 2021 deadline Special Exemption: Evidence of acceptance is not required for faculty applying for travel in late summer / early fall
  • If you are traveling internationally, then the President must sign the Travel Request Form and complete the Foreign Travel Disclosure Form
  • If a travel advance or registration prepayment is requested, then the CFEST Travel Grant Application must be submitted by the monthly deadline at least one-month prior to the month of travel (Examples: Travel in November must be submitted by the October deadline. Travel in February must be submitted by the December deadline.)
  • Final reports are accepted online via the CFEST website

Grant Application Important Dates

Travel and FTCE Grant Program
Application Deadlines

 How to Apply:
October 1, 2020
November 2, 2020
December 1, 2020
February 1, 2021
March 1, 2021
April 1, 2021
May 3, 2021

 

The Travel and FTCE grant competitions for the 2020-21 academic year will open soon.

Grant applications due by 11:59 pm EST
Submitted via InfoReady: https://ship.infoready4.com/#

 

 

FPDC Grant Program
Application Deadline		 How to Apply:

Grant Writing Workshop: Nov 19, 2020 
Application Deadline: January 25, 2021 
Award Notification: April/May 2021

Grant applications due by 11:59 pm

Submit proposals via InfoReady (PDF format): https://ship.infoready4.com/

Grants Administration Committee 2020 - 2021

Committee Member Department Phone Email
       

Paul Taylor,
Director

 Mathematics x1705 CFESTGrants@ship.edu
Nicole Hill Dean of Education and Human Services x1373 nrhill@ship.edu
John Kooti Dean of Business x1435 jgkooti@ship.edu
Jim Mike Dean of Arts and Sciences x1151 jhmike@ship.edu
       
Sangkook Lee Computer Science & Engineering x1426 slee@ship.edu
Kate McGivney Mathematics x1490 kgmcgi@ship.edu
Andrea Barrick Social Work & Gerontology x1271 asbarrick@ship.edu
Amir Amini Sedeh Management & Marketing x1623 aaminisedeh@ship.edu
Matt Shupp Counseling x1676 mrshupp@ship.edu
Arelys Madero Criminal Justice x1773 anmadero@ship.edu
Christopher Wonders Institute for Public Service and Sponsored Programs x1251 cawonders@ship.edu

Ex-Officio Member:
Administrative Assistant: CJ Ezell, x3381, cjezel@ship.edu, HH 203

CFEST Grants Administration Mission

The CFEST Grants Administration supports the professional development of Shippensburg University tenure-track and tenured faculty via awarding intramural grants and assisting faculty to develop competitive grant-writing skills.  CFEST Grants Administration encourages faculty to participate in conferences, training opportunities, research, public service, creative and performing arts, and development of curricula and instructional techniques as part of their ongoing development as teacher-scholars. CFEST strives to support Shippensburg University’s commitment to student learning by supporting the faculty professional development necessary to maintain and enhance the quality of teaching and learning on this campus