The purpose of these Faculty Summer Research Fellowship programs is to encourage research and artistic creation by enabling members of the faculty to devote full time to intensive work on their projects during the summer. While fellowships cannot be awarded for the publication of work already completed or for the preparation of textbooks, the awards otherwise support the full range of scholarship, inquiry and creative work at the University. The proposed project generally should promise completion within the period of the fellowship or shortly thereafter.

The Alexander Dubcek Fund supports academic exchange between the University of Minnesota and the countries of Eastern Europe. The fund is named in honor of Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak politician and leader of Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, and was established a he visited the University in the early 1990s. The Office of International Programs invites proposals from University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and students that will support the general goals of the fund.

The McKnight Special Events Fund provides support for major events in the arts and humanities at the University of Minnesota. The intent of the Fund is to showcase outstanding people or events at the University, or to bring to the University extraordinary external resources that will contribute to the development of the arts and humanities at the University.

This grant was used to bring Paul Demarinis and GRL to the 2008 Spark Festival.

The McKnight Summer Fellowship helped support tenured and tenure track faculty summer research projects in the arts and humanities. Offered in conjunction with the Graduate School's Faculty Summer Research Fellowship (FSRF), it formed half the stipend that supports a full summer semester of research.

The CLA Office of Information Technology along with the InfoTech Fees Committee is pleased to offer funding to CLA units seeking to purchase computer equipment for instructional purposes. The College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology (CLA-OIT) facilitates the instructional equipment grant program.

Each year one recently-joined faculty member is nominated by the University of Minnesota for the Microsoft New Faculty Research Grant.

I was the first nominee from the College of Liberal Arts.
My application was unsuccessful in the final round.

This all-University grant program supports the establishment and strengthening of innovative and sustainable international interdisciplinary partnerships between units at the University of Minnesota and those at universities and/or related institutions outside the United States. International partnerships should foster deep, sustained, interdisciplinary scholarly and/or creative activities in research, teaching, and/or related educational programs and must be characterized by a genuinely collaborative participation by all partners. Proposals from the broadest possible range of disciplines and academic units are encouraged. Grants for up to $25,000 will be awarded to support year-long initiatives. Smaller grants will be awarded to faculty in the earliest stages of international partnership start-up activities.