2012-2013 Grant Programs
Please visit each link below for detailed grant program information and guidelines including award period and timeline.
The Creative and Performing Arts grant program promotes and nurtures the creative and performing arts by faculty on the Columbia and Regional Campuses of the University of South Carolina. The purpose of this competitive grant program is to provide funding to assist faculty in the creative and performing arts in achieving their scholarship goals, with particular emphasis on those activities that support work needed for tenure, promotion, completion of an ongoing project, and/or in exploring new areas of scholarship and/or creative work.
The Humanities grant program supports faculty development through research and scholarship achievement in the humanities on the Columbia and Regional Campuses of the University of South Carolina. The purpose of this competitive grant program is to provide funding to assist Humanities faculty in achieving their scholarship goals, with particular emphasis on those activities that support work needed for tenure, promotion, completion of an ongoing project, and/or in exploring new areas of scholarship.
The Social Sciences grant program supports faculty development through research and scholarship achievement in the social sciences on the Columbia and Regional Campuses of the University of South Carolina. The purpose of this competitive grant program is to provide funding to assist faculty in the social sciences in achieving their scholarship goals, with particular emphasis on those activities that support work needed for tenure, promotion, completion of an ongoing project, and/or in exploring new areas of scholarship.
The Institute for Visiting Scholars grant program is an initiative to support short visits to the USC Columbia campus from distinguished scholars recognized for innovative pedagogy or research. This initiative is dedicated to the furtherance of the principles of pedagogy and state of the art research, which can impact faculty development by introducing leading teaching and research practices through workshops, seminars, and mentoring to increase the capacity of our faculty. Working with teams of faculty or individual researchers and graduate students, these scholars will assist in developing innovative practices to enhance knowledge and collaboration across all disciplines. (USC Columbia Faculty Only)
