Travel & Research Grants

President’s Faculty-Student Research Grant Guidelines

• Designed “to compensate currently matriculating students to perform research-related duties” up to $750
• Research assistants should gain insight into how faculty conduct research and participate in developing scholarly arguments/creative projects
• Duties may range from gathering research materials to co-authoring or co-creating the final product of a scholarly/creative project
• Research assistants need not be work-study eligible
• The hourly pay of the research assistant will be $9.00
• Faculty-student applicants should submit to the dean’s office a complete package of:
• • Research Grant Request Form
  • President’s Research Assistant Employment Request Form
  • Student’s proof of I-9 compliance from Human Resources

Exhausting startup funds is NOT necessary when applying for a research assistant through this fund.

Regular Research Grant Guidelines

Faculty Research Grants may be used to purchase minor equipment, research tools, and expendable materials, and to pay for project-specific travel, personal services (assistants, secretarial services, etc.) and miscellaneous expenses. Research tools may include books, but a specific justification must be supplied for why these are necessary and why other sources of funding, such as the department’s library acquisition fund, are not appropriate.  Faculty who had start-up funds at the time of their hire should expend those funds before applying for funds through this program. 

Faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences may want to consider their eligibility for the Faculty Development Mellon Grant.

Application Process:
Deadlines for applying for Research Grants will occur twice during the year. Faculty doing research in the fall or thereafter will submit applications by October 3. For faculty doing research during the upcoming summer, application may be submitted starting April 1. For example, if you wish to do research in June 2012, you may apply beginning April 1, 2012. Please note that you may not use any awarded funds until after June 1st, and you must expend the funds and submit receipts, invoices or other paperwork no later than 60 days after the expenditure.   

To download the full set of guidelines, please click here.

Research Grant Request Form 

Tax Form for Independent Contractors and Vendors

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Travel Grant Guidelines

We hope to support all regular faculty members in the College for travel to one professional conference per year, in accordance with the priorities listed below. Because travel funds are limited, requests for second trips in a given fiscal year will be held until after all first-trip requests have been funded, and granted according to specific criteria.

• Presenting a paper or a response to a presented paper
• Organizing/Participating on a panel
• Organizing/Chairing a session
• Performances or showings
• Serving the sponsoring organization in an official capacity

To download the full set of guidelines, please click here.

Travel Grant Request Form

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Travel Expenses

Lewis & Clark requires an itemized Travel & Entertainment Expense Report for all travel expenses charged to a College account. A properly completed Travel & Entertainment Expense Report signed by the employee, with all original receipts attached, should be sent to the Dean’s Office upon completion of the trip. See Receipts/Lost Receipts for information regarding documentation requirements.