Internal Funding Opportunities

College of Liberal Arts Opportunities

Internal Awards and Funding Sources Available to CLA Faculty: Funding opportunities including the Imagine Fund, Annual Faculty Research Grants, Social Science Research Grants, Mid-Career Faculty Research Awards, and Tenure Track Single Semester Leaves. For general research-related questions in the College of Liberal Arts, contact claresearch@umn.edu.

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA)

  • Community Action Research Grant: Support for faculty public policy research that involves interaction with community groups, agencies, or organizations in Minnesota.
  • Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs: One year of support for research activities on a project related to urban and regional affairs in Minnesota.

Center for Writing

  • Research grants: Center for Writing offers small grants to support faculty and instructors who want to learn more about how writing is conceptualized, taught, and learned (or unlearned) in the disciplines. 

Human Rights Initiative (HRI)

Institute for Global Studies

  • Funding Opportunities: Opportunities including the FLAS fellowships, J.W.G. Dunn Jr. Scholarship, and the Title VI Faculty Travel Gants. 

Imagine Fund

  • The Imagine Fund is an arts and humanities endowment supported by the McKnight Foundation. The foundation provides faculty research awards, visiting distinguished professorships, and a special events fund.

Institute for Advanced Study

Research and Innovation Office (RIO)

Office of the Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity

  • IDEA Grants Program: Innovation, Diversity, Equity, and Achievement: Established by the Office of the Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity, the University of Minnesota IDEA (Innovation, Diversity, Equity, and Achievement) Grants Program seeks to infuse equity and diversity into every aspect of the University's work and operations by funding creative yet pragmatic proposals for projects that address issues of institutional equity and diversity.