Higher Education

Sponsor: Henry Luce Foundation
Solicitation Title: Higher Education
Event Type: Rolling Deadline
Funding Amount: Varies
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, March 1, 2019
Solicitation Link: http://www.hluce.org/higheredapply.aspx

Overview

The Higher Education Program welcomes excellent, innovative proposals from all kinds of institutions and organizations and encourages inquiries from those that are less well-resourced and/or that seek to serve disadvantaged or marginalized communities. Higher education program grants have several characteristics: <ul> <li>They support projects in the humanities and qualitative social sciences (with one exception: projects that encourage diversity in certain STEM fields are also supported) </li> <li>In general, they will support team-based projects or institutional initiatives rather than purely individual research projects </li> <li>The projects they support will not only produce new knowledge but will also model new approaches to the production, dissemination and application of knowledge</li> </ul> Grants awarded to colleges and universities through the Higher Education Program should focus on at least one of the particular strategies described below: <ul> <li>Encouraging new approaches to the dissemination of research outside of the academy—including to the general public or to particular communities of interest, like policymakers or practitioners </li> <li>Facilitating collaboration, dialogue, or another kind of exchange or partnership between scholars and practitioners or policymakers </li> <li>Facilitating and nurturing trans-disciplinary and trans-national research and training, especially across institutional boundaries and barriers of various kinds </li> <li>Supporting dialogue and collaboration between US and non-US institutions about higher education goals and strategies, especially in order to strengthen non-US institutions and the higher education sector in other parts of the world </li> <li>Supporting innovation in doctoral education, especially in ways that empower graduate students and equip them to thrive personally and professionally in the more challenging contemporary context </li> <li>Eliminating obstacles to a diverse professoriate and administration, especially in the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics</li> </ul>

Solicitation Limitations: The Program does not contribute to: <ul> <li>Capital projects </li> <li>Endowments </li> <li>General operating support </li> <li>Faculty lines (though a grant may pay a portion of faculty salary attributable to a project) </li> <li>Undergraduate financial aid </li> </ul> As a general rule, we prefer to fund only direct project costs, which may include general administrative costs directly related to the grant-funded project (e.g., percentages of support staff salaries, office supplies, rent, etc. that can be clearly attributed to the funded project). Paying indirect costs (or institutional overhead) subtracts from our ability to support a project, and we do not increase grants to cover such costs. Program directors determine on a case-by-case basis whether indirect costs will be allowed and at what rate. If indirect costs are allowed, the maximum is typically 10 percent. Other Information:Through its grants to colleges and universities, the Luce Foundation aims to advance three goals: <ul> <li>To stimulate and support scholarship, especially projects that break new ground and that cross disciplinary and geographic boundaries </li> <li>To ensure that high-quality research, especially in the humanities and qualitative social sciences, informs policymaking and public discussion </li> <li>To prepare the next generation of diverse scholars and academic leaders</li> </ul> The RODA-posted deadline is arbitrary. Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Last Updated: 02/21/2019

RODA ID: 494