Faculty Funding Opportunities

liberal arts Career Enhancement Award
The Career Enhancement Awards (CEA) is designed with faculty in mind who are seeking funding to enhance scholarship and creative activities.

Liberal Arts Community Engagement Award
The Liberal Arts Community Engagement (LACE) Initiative is intended for community centered research or performance projects.

Dean's Lecture Series
Apply for funding to bring a scholar to campus to present or facilitate research, creative, or collaborative projects using this year's theme: "Transnational Migration".

Faculty Development Leave
The purpose of Faculty Development Leave is to enable faculty members to engage in study, research, writing, field observation, and similar projects to improve public higher education.

Publication Subvention Fund
The Publication Subvention Fund is intended to provide humanities and arts faculty assistance with the final stages of their book related research. Coming soon from Research and Innovation.

wechter fund
The Aaron and Sylvia Wechter Family Excellence Fund was established to provide support for proposals from faculty or students with a commitment to supporting the greater El Paso Jewish community.

tom lea fellowship
The Tom Lea Fellowship was established to continue research into the scholarly or creative works done by classically trained artist, Tom Lea, which communicated the environment and history of the Paso del Norte region.