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Carol Dobrunz Endowment Fund

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The UWL Carol Dobrunz Endowment Fund supports conference costs for non-tenured faculty or instructional academic staff (IAS) with a continuing appointment. The award may be used for conference related travel costs such as registration, airfare, car rental, mileage reimbursement, meals & incidentals, and lodging. 

Eligibility

To be eligible, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

  • Must be employed at UWL with at least a 75% appointment
  • Must be either a non-tenured faculty member or a member of instructional academic staff (IAS) with a continuing appointment
  • Must be attending a national conference within their discipline
  • May not have previously received this award

The amount of each award is determined based on the amount available from the Fund but will not exceed $1,000. To be eligible, the conference in the application must occur between July 1 and June 30 of the upcoming year.

Deadline

Deadline

Proposals (Grant Proposal Reports from Digital Measures) due to senate@uwlax.edu on the last Friday in March

Spring 2025 Deadline: Friday, March 28, 2025

Guidelines/RFP 

Documents you will need to upload in Digital Measures
  • Proposal narrative - See RFP for details
  • Budget – If you make changes to the budget template, please verify the formulas. Important notes:
    • This is a universal budget template.
    • Not all categories listed will be allowable for applications to this program.
    • Please refer to the RFP for allowable expenses.
  • Budget narrative
Having trouble with the grant submission process in Digital Measures?
  •  Please scroll to the bottom of the screen for an instructional video.
    • The uploading process is demonstrated first in the video.
    • See minute 6:23 in the video for a demonstration of generating a grant proposal report.
Information for Chairs/Unit Directors and Deans/Division Directors
  • No signatures are required.
  • Applicants should provide their chair/unit director and dean/division director with their proposal so that they may review it.
  • If you approve, communicate your approval (verbally, via email, etc.) to the applicant.
  • When the applicant uploads their proposal, they will initial in Digital Measures to indicate they have obtained the required approvals.
  • When the applicant submits their proposal, the chair/unit director and dean/division director will be CCed.
  • If you receive an email for a proposal that you have not seen and/or approved, you may contact the Provost Office at provost@uwlax.edu and request that the proposal be withdrawn from consideration.
Program Contact

Please contact the Faculty Senate Instructional Academic Staff (IAS) Committee Chair with questions (see the current Faculty Senate Committee Assignments).

How to Create Internal Grant Proposals in Digital Measures

[MediaSite tutorial: https://www.uwlax.edu/grants/faculty-research-grants/]