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Provost’s Incentive Grants for Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creativity are offered through the Academic Affairs Office to provide tenured and tenure-track faculty members with funds to assist with travel, purchase of materials, conference fees, and other support for scholarly, research, or creative activities.

Selection Criteria
A selection committee composed of representatives from the faculties of the four schools will read and evaluate all properly completed applications. Applications will be rated on the three criteria listed below; applicants should be sure to specifically address each of the following three criteria:

1. Specific ways the applicant’s professional development will benefit from the ability to do this research or creative activity. Likelihood that the project will result in refereed publications, juried exhibits, or invitational solo showings, or presentations at professional conferences. Likelihood that the scholarship will develop new perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to subsequent professional development and scholarship (60 percent).
    
2. Potential the experience has for enhancing the applicant’s teaching (20 percent).
    
3. Potential contribution of the applicant’s project to his or her service to department, school, or college (20 percent).

Eligibility
All full-time Buffalo State tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible.

Deadline
The application deadline is 4:00 p.m. Thursday, May 2. Awards will be made in late May.

Questions
Please contact Cara Angie, ext. 3841.