Resources, Funding, and Professional Development

Hanover College Grants

Our Faculty Development Committee (FDC) reviews internal funding applications to support a variety of scholarly endeavors. The Faculty Manual offers more details on the grant application cycles and evaluation process. Check out the Faculty Development Committee MyHanover webpage for more details about internal grants.

Faculty may receive a maximum of one major grant award (up to $3,500) per academic year and up to one minor (up to $850) grant per application cycle.

Grant application cycle deadlines are October 15, February 1, and May 1 (minor grants only) each year.

The Faculty Development Committee also awards Petticrew Faculty Technology Fund grants, which are awarded to faculty members for purchase of software and equipment to support teaching.

Petticrew Technology Grant applications may be submitted at any time to the Faculty Development Committee chair and should include: a budget and a price quote, product description and/or a link to product information, details of intended use in the classroom. If the request is for a subscription license, rather than a one-time purchase, this must be explicitly stated and with a proposed timeline for length of license. The grant does not support regularly-occurring annual licenses due to limited funds, however, for recurring or subscription materials, the grant applicant should address: At what point are adopted technologies no longer considered experimental and costs will be transferred to operating budget(s)? What threshold of use or number of users justifies continued subscription to a technology (and transfer of costs to operating budget)? New technologies purchased through the grant will be considered as follows: Year 1 is considered "early adopter" year and paid through the grant. Year 2 is "experimental" and paid through the grant, with grantees evaluating feasibility of adopting the technology and transferring to operating budget(s). Year 3 and beyond should be considered adoption phase and expenses should be covered by department operating budget(s).

For Petticrew requests to be considered for materials in the Fall semester, please submit application prior to March 21. Grant recipients may be asked to report back to the Committee about their use of funds and equipment purchased through the grant.

External Grants and Funding

Our Duggan Library has a LibGuide to overview external funding resources and planning.

Additional resources for research funding are available on the Research Integrity webpage, for example, NSF, NIH, and philanthropic societies.

The PALNI consortium of Indiana libraries offers many free virtual resources for grant proposal writing.

PALNI offers course textbook creation grants up to $6,500 for faculty who create open-source course textbooks. Grant applications are due in January each year for the cohort running the following year and more information is available on the PALNI grants website.

Here are a few opportunities of interest:

CEA service learning Grants - Community-Engaged Alliance
NEH Humanities Connections
NEH Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
NSF IUSE Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)
NSF AISL Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
NSF S-STEM NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM)

Hanover College Sabbatical Program

The faculty sabbatical program offers a period of time for faculty to revitalize and renew their academic passions. The program is offered to all teaching faculty. Sabbatical guidelines and application materials are available in the Faculty Manual.

Sabbatical leaves should be goal-oriented and result in an outcome, identified by the faculty member. Leaves may be granted to produce a formal research project intended for an audience of scholarly peers, initiate a new project or finish an incomplete project, learn or retrain in an area of interest.

Sabbatical applications are due to the Chair of the Faculty Development Committee by August 15 in the year prior to the year in which the leave is proposed.

Thinking of authoring an open education textbook?

The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) offers a publishing service for showcasing your scholarly or creative works in an open educational resource (OER) format.

Check out these helpful resources from PALNI

The PALNI Press offers several platforms for publishing open access content in a variety of formats, including digital exhibits, journals, monographs, open textbooks, and more. We encourage you to explore these platforms or schedule a consultation to learn more about how you can get started.