Imagine Fund - Arts, Design & Humanities

Questions regarding the Imagine Fund should be directed to Jon Binks in the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost (binks001@umn.edu; 612-626-8031).

Five Imagine Fund grant programs support projects in the arts, humanities and design at the University of Minnesota. The programs are supported by a generous grant from the McKnight Foundation, from new internal reallocations from the University of Minnesota Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research, and from the creation of the chairs through the Permanent University Fund.

Please visit the Imagine Fund website for complete descriptions of the awards, eligibility and review criteria, and application instructions.

http://www.artsandhumanities.umn.edu/

Single Awards

Arts and Humanities Chair

Application Deadline - 12 March 2012
Awarded every year for a two-year period.
The Arts and Humanities Chair is intended to enable professors with a record of distinguished scholarship, teaching and service to conduct a research project that will further their own scholarship, generate curricular innovation, and forge intellectual communities in the university or wider community.
Provides up to $70,000 over a two year period.

Visiting Distinguished Chair in the Arts and Humanities

Nomination Deadline - 12 March 2012
The Imagine Fund seeks proposals from individuals, groups, departments and centers to identify candidates of high distinction in the areas of the Arts, Design and Humanities for the new Visiting Distinguished Chair in the Arts, Humanities or Design.

Multiple Awards

Annual Arts & Humanities Faculty Awards

Application Deadline - 25 October 2011
Up to 150 awards of $5,000 each.
Open to all tenured and tenure-track faculty in the arts, design, and humanities.
Applications also will be accepted from arts, humanities, and design faculty holding full-time, fixed term appointments who are annually evaluated like tenured and tenure-track faculty.
Eligibility does not include visiting faculty or faculty holding temporary or non-salaried appointments.
Awards may be used for research needs, teaching materials, books, materials for creative works, or travel.
Awards may not not be used to supplement salary or for for course buyouts.
Awards must be spent within a three-year period.
Faculty can apply every year and bank up to 3 years’ worth of awards. That is, awards can be used over multiple years.
Awards may be used to supplement external funding.
Awards do not need to be, but certainly may be, used for new projects.
Online application process.

Special Events Grant Program

Application Deadline - 2 December 2011
Seeks to support new and ongoing events at the University of Minnesota that promote profound understanding of the human condition, excellence, innovation, collaboration, interdisciplinary dialogue and greater public engagement with the University.
A total of $50,000 is available each year for all special events.

Course Release Funds

Application Deadline - 10 January 2012
A limited number of single course releases will be available to tenured or tenure-track faculty each year.
Applicants must be appointed to an arts, humanities, or design department.
Provides funds to buyout one course of teaching to enable a faculty member to complete a dynamic new or ongoing project or activity related to the arts, humanities, or design.
About 6 awards per year.
May not be combined with any other form of leave support such as a single semester leave or fellowship.

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Last modified on March 2, 2012