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International Funding For Faculty

The University of Kansas Lawrence Campus

Awards

George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award

This award recognizes outstanding contributions in teaching, research, and service that significantly strengthen the University's international dimension. The award includes a $1,000 prize and is announced publicly during during Convocation. All tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible for consideration; nominations are due in International Programs by February 1 and selection is made by a faculty committee.

Previous recipients

Grants

International Faculty Awards for the Improvement of Teaching

Two general types of activities are eligible for support:

1. Activities that would aid faculty members enrich their teaching. These could include seminars or symposia to be held on the KU campus oriented to improve teaching with an international focus. They could also include attendance at workshops or symposia held off campus or short courses that would enrich the faculty member's teaching from an international perspective.
   
   
2. The creation of new courses with an international focus. Applicants must agree to teach the proposed course at least three times over a six-year period and to participate in a workshop-seminar at which the new courses will be discussed and critiqued.

Applications under this program are due once each academic year. Tenured and tenure-track faculty members are eligible to apply. For more information, contact International Programs.

International Travel Fund

Tenured and tenure-track faculty (or faculty equivalents) are eligible for awards to deliver scholarly papers at conferences or pursue research outside the United States. Each faculty member is eligible for one award every three years; the award amounts are $800. For more information, contact IP. You may also apply online for international travel funds via this PDF form.

Fulbright Scholar Program (CIES)

This program offers a variety of opportunities to faculty for lecturing and research abroad. Approximately 700 awards in more than 120 countries are awarded nationally. There are also seminars, distinguished lecturing grants, and Fulbright chair appointments, as well as other awards with special features. In addition, under certain conditions, tenure-track faculty at the University of Kansas are eligible to receive from KU a supplemental award of one month's salary for each semester of a Fulbright grant.

For information and applications, please contact International Programs or see www.cies.org. The deadline for most lecturing or research awards is August 1, for lecturing awards and Fulbright chair appointments May 1, and for special programs November 1.

Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad Fellowship Program (DOE)

This program provides support for faculty for three to 12 months of research to be conducted outside of the United States. Projects in language and area studies are funded for every part of the world except Western Europe.

For information and applications, contact International Programs, or International Education and Graduate Programs Service, U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW, Suite 600, Portals Building, Washington, D.C. 20202-5331. The internal deadline for applications is mid-October. Applications must be reviewed at International Programs and then at the Office of Sponsored Programs, CRINC, before being forwarded to Washington in time for the early November deadline.

Faculty Exchange Programs

A number of schools and departments have organized faculty exchanges with universities outside of the United States for varying time lengths. International Programs has also offered travel support for faculty members from KU on short-term exchanges with colleagues from institutions abroad. Please contact your department chair, school dean, or International Programs for further information.

KU has agreements with partner universities for partial funding of faculty teaching, consulting, or research collaboration. Click here to learn more about these agreements.