Grant Writing Mentorship Program

The Grant Writing Mentorship Program facilitates the development of competitive external grant proposals by providing individualized mentorship and training to relatively new faculty or tenured faculty lacking experience in grant writing. This program supports the development of external grant proposals that will have a broad impact on the research mission of the University. The Grant Writing Mentorship Program will pair an inexperienced faculty member (the mentee), with an interest in writing a major grant proposal, with a senior faculty member (the mentor) with demonstrated expertise and success in securing funding from the agency targeted by the mentee.

The program remedies two fundamental difficulties facing faculty in their efforts to establish a rigorous, externally funded research program:

1. a lack of time to develop major research proposals, particularly when faced with the challenge of developing new courses, and
2. a lack of experience in writing competitive grant proposals.

The program will remedy the first problem by providing funds to purchase release from a single course, thereby providing the time needed by the mentee to write a proposal. The program will remedy the second problem by providing the mentee with an experienced, seasoned mentor that will help guide the development of the proposal.

Grant-Writing Mentorship Program Guidelines

Grant-Writing Mentorship Application