Summer 2025 HIPs Scholarship Grant Deadline

The Offices of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Immersive Learning are pleased to announce a summer incentive program that supports faculty writing and submitting scholarly work related to immersive learning or other high-impact classes. This incentive program is open to all full-time Ball State faculty who have taught a "core four" high-impact undergraduate course with the Banner attribute in recent years and are drawing on their high-impact teaching experience to complete an article, chapter, or longer manuscript. Faculty who are accepted into the program will receive $2000 to support their summer writing time.

PLEASE NOTE: CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE FUNDED.

Scholarship related to high-impact teaching may include

• Topics found in community engaged or disciplinary specific journals, book chapters, and books
• Best practices to inform future community-engaged scholarship and immersive projects
• Literature reviews for foundational scholarship
• Disciplinary theories or models that can be used for a project
• Scholarship of teaching and learning paradigms, methodologies, or approaches
• Collaboration techniques, engagement processes, and/or methods
• Reflection, evaluation, assessment, or lessons learned from past immersive projects
• Survey tools or research methods used in community-engaged scholarship
• Creative activities that generate new knowledge, artifacts, or resources for the public and private sectors

Program participants will be awarded $2,000 to work on their scholarship during Summer Session 1 and 2. Fifty percent of the stipend will be paid upfront and the remaining 50% upon submission of the project to a journal or press. Faculty will be required to submit the manuscript, documentation of submission, and a brief report to the Director of Immersive Learning and High Impact Practices to release the second payment. Submission of manuscripts must be complete by September 1.

To be considered, program participants must complete an online application that includes:

• An abstract for the project and the target publication
• A current academic vita
• Supporting documentation (if available) for past, current or future immersive learning/HIP projects
• Department chair signoff

Eligibility

• All full-time faculty (who will continue employment with the university through next academic year) are eligible
• Faculty who have received this award in the summer of 2023 or 2024 are not eligible this year
• Co-authored work is eligible but all eligible authors (full-time Ball State faculty) will split one stipend
• Faculty may only submit one project per summer