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Internal Funding Opportunities

Bentley University is committed to providing opportunities for faculty and staff to enhance their research, scholarship and teaching. See below for more information about grants and other funding opportunities for the 2024-2025 academic year.  

Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Fund

Focus area: Professional development

Deadline: Rolling

Grant amount: $1,000

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Bentley-Gallup Steering Committee

Focus area: Research involving the Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Report or survey data set

Deadline: December 3, 2024

Grant amount: $5,000

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Bentley Research Council (BRC)

Focus area: Faculty research

Deadline: November 24, 2024

Grant amount: $7,500

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Center for Health and Business (CHB)

Focus area: Seed funding to support innovative health-related initiatives

Deadline: September 13, 2024

Grant amount: Varies

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Center for Women and Business (CWB)

Focus area: Research incorporating issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace

Deadlines: Fall Proposals: November 15, 2024; Spring I Proposals: February 14, 2025; Spring II Proposals: April 11, 2025

Grant amount: $2,500

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Cronin Office of International Education: GlobAL Action Learning Grants

Focus area: Courses that use action learning to meet interdisciplinary and global student learning outcomes

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Grant amount: $5,000 (individual faculty member) or $10,000 (faculty pairs)

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Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC)

Focus area: Professional development

Deadlines: Fall I Proposals: September 25, 2024; Fall II Proposals: November 13, 2024; Spring I Proposals: February 19, 2025; Spring II Proposals: April 9, 2025

Grant amount: $5,000

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Faculty Summer Grants

Focus area: Basic, applied and pedagogical research 

Deadline: February 10, 2025

Grant amount: $10,000 

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Hoffman Center for Business Ethics: Mini Grants

Focus area: Supporting research and teaching in business ethics

Deadline(s): October 18, 2024

Grant amount: $2,000 

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Inclusive Teaching Fellows Initiative

Focus area: Inclusive pedagogy

Deadline: August/September 2024

Funding amount: $1,500

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Open Access Funds

Focus area: Covers Article Processing Charge (APC) and other costs associated with publishing research in open access journals

Deadline: Rolling; submit requests directly to department chairs

Funding amount: Varies

Valente Center for Arts and Sciences: Humanities Seminar

Focus area: Year-long seminar highlighting transdisciplinary themes with roots in the humanities

Deadline: May 1, 2024

Funding amount: $8,000 for Organizing Scholar; up to $3,000 for participants

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Valente Center for Arts and Sciences: Student Research Assistantships

Focus area: Providing faculty with motivated student research assistants; affording undergraduate students with substantive supervised research experience

Deadlines: Friday prior to the start of the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters

Funding amount: Up to 120 hours of research

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Have questions about internal funding opportunities at Bentley?

Email the Office of the Provost