Graduate Faculty and Staff

As a current faculty or staff member, your contribution to our students (potential and current) is invaluable.  We must all mount up like Eagles and amplify our Eagle Pride by always providing service with Eagle Excellence and keeping our Eagle Promise!

Objective: Empower and support tenured/tenure-track, full-time faculty members in conducting innovative research within their respective fields of study.

Grant Amount: Provide small grants of up to $10,000 to facilitate research projects.

Scope: Address pressing issues at the local, regional, state, and national levels.

Goals:

• Promotion of impactful research: Encourage the pursuit of research that advances knowledge within specific academic disciplines and contributes to solving real-world problems.
• Encouragement of collaboration: Foster collaboration among faculty members through the promotion of interdisciplinary research proposals.
• Holistic problem-solving: Support the development of holistic solutions by encouraging collaborative research projects that address complex challenges comprehensively.
• Fairness and transparency: Conduct a limited and competitive selection process, ensuring funding is contingent upon the availability of resources and based on the merit and potential impact of research proposals.
• Contribution to academic excellence and societal betterment: Facilitate the pursuit of excellence in research and scholarship while promoting the generation of knowledge that addresses pressing societal needs.