Faculty Funding Opportunities: Visiting Scholars/Speakers
Faculty Funding Opportunities for Visiting Scholars and Speakers
| Program Name | Program Description | Award Amount | Deadline | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Crosland Jr. Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) | Provide funds to enhance faculty/staff teaching methods and student learning experiences. Funding examples include things like support for traveling to a teaching workshop or conference; registering for an online course/workshop; bringing a pedagogical expert or other relevant speaker to campus; starting/hosting an on-campus discussion series; purchasing supplies, equipment, or a technology tool/license/subscription; developing a co-curricular program for students or colleagues. | Varies | Rolling | |
| Bacca Foundation Visiting Scholar and Artist Program | Supports visits from distinguished scholars, visiting faculty, writers, performing artists and professors of practice. The primary purpose of such visits will be to engage Davidson College students in innovative, stimulating, and meaningful ways. Preferences will be given to visits that enhance new areas of inquiry or promote new cross-disciplinary initiatives. | Varies | Rolling | |
| Charles N. Williamson Endowment | Supports curricular and co-curricular projects and programs that promote understanding of gay and lesbian issues. Examples of possible project types include, but are not limited to, course development, visiting lectures, mentored student travel, and creative arts productions. | Varies | Rolling | Faculty Development Team |
| Davidson Arts & Creative Engagement (DACE) | Supports integrating the arts into the daily lives of our students, faculty and staff. Provides funding support annually to the programs of English, Theatre, Music, Art, Dance, and Film and Media Studies. To enrich the community through the arts, grant opportunities are offered to students, faculty and staff. | Varies | Varies | |
| Public Lectures Committee | Provides funds on a rolling basis to help academic departments and programs pay for public lectures. | Up to $2,000 | Rolling | John Wertheimer |