Faculty Research and Innovation Center

The Faculty Travel Support Grant is designed to ensure financial barriers do not prevent faculty from doing the work that requires being somewhere — whether presenting research, accessing archives and special collections, conducting fieldwork, or meeting with collaborators. It is designed to complement existing professional development funds and to be inclusive of the full range of scholarly activity across disciplines. The travel must be related to the applicant's original research or creative effort.

A faculty member must be traveling in support of active/recent research and/or creative activity to receive funding. This would include, but not be limited to: archival or library research requiring on-site access to collections; fieldwork or lab/site visits directly tied to an active project; in-person meetings with a co-investigator or collaborator at another institution; conference and workshop travel to present original work, participate in a panel, serve as an officer of a professional association, and/or contribute as a stated participant in a formal discussion. Other scholarly travel will be considered with a brief written justification.

One grant of up to $600 is available per faculty member per academic (fiscal) year. Eligible applications will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis each quarter until funds are exhausted for that quarter. Uncommitted funds will carry forward to the next quarter. One event per grant application will be supported (i.e., you cannot combine two FRIC grants for one trip).

Open to all ranks of tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as affiliate and visiting faculty.

Funds are reserved per quarter to ensure an equitable distribution throughout the academic year. Please apply in the appropriate quarter based on your conference dates as shown in the table below. Applications will shut down when the quarter's funds are fully committed.

*Applications must be received NO LATER THAN 7 - 10 business days prior to your first day of travel.

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Submit your request online through MyApps. Applications must be received NO LATER THAN 7 - 10 business days prior to your first day of travel, though we encourage early applications to ensure available funds. Please allow 5 - 7 business days for FRIC to review after your Unit Head approves your request.

*Note: Incorrect unit head emails are a common hang-up in the review process. Copy and paste your unit head's email to reduce typos. 

Faculty Travel Support Grant funds are distributed by FRIC through departmental transfers. Grantees can incur expenses on a GVSU P-card or be reimbursed from their department through Workday. Work with your department's administrator/support staff person to submit a Budget Amendment in Workday to have your grant funds returned to the department. FRIC will reimburse department funds when all grant criteria are met.

GVSU Travelers should consult travel guidance available on the Business and Finance website.

Grantees must submit an Activity Report outlining the outcomes of the grant. Reimbursements will not be processed to the department without the Activity Report. It must be submitted and approved before funds are reimbursed to the department, and before the recipient may apply for any FRIC internal grant again. Please submit your Activity Report within your grant application in MyApps.

The report should outline any significant contacts made at the meeting, new insights gained, or associations developed that may advance the faculty member’s research and creative activities or lead to leadership positions in appropriate organizations, etc. Those faculty members not submitting a report within 30 days of returning from the travel may be ineligible for future grants until this requirement has been met.

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