Internal Grant Programs: Office of the Provost

2011-2012 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 Clinical Incentive Pilot grant program supports Columbia and Regional clinical faculty in medicine, pharmacy, and nursing, and is designed to encourage clinical faculty involvement in research and scholarship. The type of research may include, but is not limited to, outcomes, applied, translational, and/or human populations. An expected outcome is that the clinician researcher will be able to obtain pilot data that will result in proposals for extramural research funding. The principal investigator must be a practicing clinician in the School of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, or College of Nursing. Co-principal investigators are not required to be clinical faculty and may be from any USC Columbia college, school or from the Regional Campuses.

The Institute for Visiting Scholars grant program is an initiative to support short visits 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.

The Distributed Learning Course Development Grant Program supports faculty participation in Distributed Learning (formerly Distance Education) by providing financial incentives, expert instructional design assistance, and technological support to faculty for the purpose of developing courses for delivery through Distributed Learning (DL) methods. Each award winner will work as part of a three person team. Each team will consist of a faculty member, a professional instructional designer and a technology consultant from UTS. Proposals for fully on-line or “blended” courses are especially encouraged. Blended courses are mixed delivery-mode courses which both meet in a traditional classroom, studio or lab for 50, 75 or 100 minutes per week and complete the required contact minutes via on-line content.