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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, CETL supports three different grant programs:

Travel and Dissemination of Scholarship Grant: Supports faculty travel to conferences for presentations, conference organizing, or required attendance for national officers. Funds can also be used for costs associated with dissemination of scholarship, such as publication costs.

| 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 CETL Annual Reports (pdf):

Important Updates for 2025-26 Academic Year

  • Mileage reimbursement is $0.70 per mile
  • 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.
  • 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: $1200
  • Full-time full-year temporary faculty are eligible for travel/dissemination and FTCE funding.
  • All post award paperwork must be submitted to CJ Ezell in the CETL Office, located in within the Office of Professional, Continuing, and Distance Educations (PCDE), HH 117 (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 2026): Faculty must apply for CFEST Travel and FTCE grants by the May 1, 2026 deadline. If you miss this deadline, please contact CFESTgrants@ship.edu. 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 CETL website

Grant Application Important Dates

Travel and FTCE Grant Program
Application Deadlines

 How to Apply:
October 1, 2025
November 3, 2025
December 1, 2025
February 2, 2026
March 2, 2026
April 1, 2026
May 1, 2026

 

The Travel and FTCE grant competitions for the 2025-26 academic year will open mid September.

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

 

 

FPDC Grant Program
Application Deadline		 How to Apply:


Application Deadline: late January 2026 (exact date TBD)
Award Notification: April 2026

Grant applications due late January, 2026  

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

Grants Administration Committee 2025 - 2026

Committee Member Department Phone Email
       

Paul Taylor,
Director

 Mathematics x1705 CFESTGrants@ship.edu
Samuel Forlenza Dean of Education and Human Services x1713 stforlenza@ship.edu
John Kooti Dean of Business x1435 jgkooti@ship.edu
Sabita Manian Dean of Arts and Sciences x1151 smanian@ship.edu
       
James Lohrey Communications, Journalism, Media x1525 jblohrey@ship.edu
Joao Dias Mechanical and Civil Engineering x1361 jpdias@ship.edu
Emily Kramer Biology x1593 ekramer@ship.edu
Arelys Madero Hernandez Criminal Justice x1773 anmadero@ship.edu
Mengzhu Fu Psychology x1336 mfu@ship.edu
HP Kim Accounting and Information Systems Analytics x1641 hkim@ship.edu
Margaret Light Institute for Public Service and Sponsored Programs x3049 ipssp@ship.edu

Ex-Officio Member:
Administrative Assistant: CJ Ezell, x3381, cjezel@ship.edu, HH 117

CETL Grants Administration Mission

The CETL 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.  CETL 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. CETL 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