»Honors Grants

Criteria

• Project must be well defined.
  • Student Grants: Students must seek and identify the faculty who will collaborate with them on their scholarly/creative project.
  • Faculty Grants: Faculty must identify the students who will work with them on their scholarly/creative project.
• Project must be clearly interdisciplinary. 
  • Students and faculty must identify the disciplines involved in their project, the relevance of those disciplines to their project, and how the disciplines are integrated in the project.
• A reasonable timeline for completion of the project must be given.
• Possible journals and/or conferences to which the finished product may be submitted should be identified.
• Justification must be provided for the financial support requested.

Awards

Awards are intended to provide support for projects which are not only clearly defined but also clearly interdisciplinary and collaborative. Funds may be used for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, the following:

• The purchase of equipment, materials, or supplies directly related to the project.
• Expenses directly related to the project such as test subject remuneration, license fees, or bio-hazardous waste removal.
• Travel expenses directly related to the project such as working in an archive or collecting field data.
• Student awards - students can be given an allowance so that they may devote their time to a creative/scholarly project.

The University Honors Program will consider requests in support of student travel to present research or creative activity at an academic or professional conference, formal academic meeting/event, or an artistic or cultural event.  Confirmation of invitation to present/perform from the conference/event organizer must be submitted with the application.  Applicants must apply at least 6 weeks in advance of the conference/event.  Applications are submitted through the University Travel Grant Application.

Applicants must be current Honors students in good standing (i.e., not on probation) to apply.  Honors student travel awards are limited to a maximum of $500 each semester for allowable expenses (see travel grant application for details).  Students should indicate other sources (e.g., SGA, CUE) of travel funding for which they are eligible on the universal travel grant application.

The following links cover grant guidelines and necessary forms that can be downloaded and returned electronically:

• Grant Guidelines
• Grant Application Cover Sheet - Faculty and/or Student Grant

• All faculty members who teach in the Honors Program may apply for Honors Scholarly/Creative Grants and/or Honors Travel Grants.
• All Honors students are eligible to apply for Honors Scholarly/Creative Grants and/or Honors Conference Travel Grants, unless they are on probation in the Honors Program.

Forms are to be submitted electronically to the University Honors Program Office at honors@chapman.edu. Applications will be carefully considered by the University Honors Advisory Council in a timely manner. Award recipients will be notified of the Council’s decision as soon as those are available.