2024-2025 IWL FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT

Call for Proposals

Fall Application Deadline: October 11, 2024

Spring Application Deadline: March 14, 2025

Purpose of Faculty Travel Grants: These grants support faculty development in areas of world language instruction or second language acquisition, in any language. Travel funds may be used for travel to present a conference paper or participate as a panelist. 

Applicants are asked to request department funding prior to applying for this grant, and are advised to seek other appropriate funding, such as the annual UVA Education Benefit. Details about this benefit may be found at: Education Benefits 1 | UVA HR (virginia.edu)  

Eligibility: All full-time faculty members with a continuing contract of any rank, including lecturer and general faculty, who are engaged in the teaching of any world language at UVA, are welcome to apply. For spring travel grants, verification of continued employment at UVa for the following academic year is required once an application is awarded funding. 

Application deadlines: The IWL has two calls for applications for faculty travel grant funding in one academic year. See the deadlines on the top of this page. 

Awards:   Travel grant maximum is $500, depending on the availability of funds and the number of applicants. Faculty may apply for one grant per semester. In the spring, priority will be given to applicants who have not already received funding in fall. 

For the 2024 Fall travel grants, the funding must be used by January 15, 2025. 

For the 2025 Spring travel grants, the funding must be used by June 15, 2025. 

All documentation for travel expenses must be submitted on or before January 15th for fall travel or June 15th for spring travel.  Travel that takes place after these dates will not be eligible for funding.   

Please include the following information in your application: 

1. Personal information (including email, name, UVA-status (job titles), length of faculty appointment, UVA Department and/or language program, name of location of conference or workshop as well as proposed dates of travel); 

2. Goals & significance of proposed travel: Discuss the goals of the travel and the expected outcomes for the faculty member; describe the relevance and significance of the proposed travel for the faculty member and the overall mission of the IWL, how it will benefit UVa and why the IWL should fund it.  

3. Budget: Include travel, lodging, conference or workshop registration fee, other cost, budget total, name and amount of other sources of funding, and net amount requested. **State here how much your home department has agreed to contribute to your travel.** 

4. Dissemination: Explain plans for sharing your work. Recipients of IWL grants are required to present their work at an IWL event, such as the Roundtable Series. You may also propose ideas for IWL-related workshops, presentations, or dissemination methods to the UVA community. 

5. Summary of recent professional achievements and developments: List your recent professional achievements and development. Include publications, conference travel, professional development workshops, and grant awards from the past 3 years. 

Please save your application as one PDF file named as the following: “LASTNAME_IWLTRAVELGRANT_FALL24” or “LASTNAME_IWLTRAVELGRANT_SPRING25” and submit to Pimonwan Kamjan at wdd2vc@virginia.edu. 

Questions about the grant may be directed to the IWL Faculty Grants Committee: Dr. Cécile Rey (chr2u@virginia.edu) and Dr. Anne Rotich (ajr6y@virginia.edu).