Deadline to apply is 5 p.m. Friday, December 6, 2024.
Binghamton University announces the 2025-2026 Presidential Diversity Research Grant (PDRG) to provide support to assistant professors who are members of historically underrepresented groups to succeed in their research and scholarship. Grant funds are designed to support research efforts toward tenure and promotion requirements. Grants of $5,000 to $8,000 will be awarded annually to successful applicants. Awarded funds will be available after July 1, 2025.
Eligibility and deadline
To be eligible for consideration, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Applicants must have completed a PhD, MFA, EdD or terminal degree in a specified field as required by the academic unit.
- Applicants must be in a tenure-track assistant professor or assistant
librarian position at Binghamton University. - Applicants must be from one of the following underrepresented
populations: African American/Black, Hispanic/Latine, Native
American/Alaskan Native or Pacific Islander. - Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents.
- Applicants must not be previous recipients of a Presidential Diversity Research Grant.
- Application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, December 6, 2024.
Proposal guidelines
To be considered for this grant, submit an application that includes:
- A brief cover letter that includes the applicant’s contact information and mandated tenure decision date. The letter should explain how the applicant will present and/or publish the proposed research. Additionally, the letter should identify the Principal Investigator (if applicable), including the PI’s title and institutional affiliation; for multiple investigator projects, the letter should state who should receive the grant.
- A two-page abbreviated vita.
- Request amount, including a budget that describes how funds will be used (with line-item breakdown) and a projected timeline, with milestones and an expected completion date. If the project lasts more than one year, the budget should be broken into year-by-year expenses. Please also state what research funding (if any) is currently available to the applicant (e.g., start-up funds, TAE seed funding, external funding, etc.), as well as funds for which the applicant has applied (including estimated notification date and anticipated start date if successful).
- Project description (2,000-word maximum), consisting of a statement of research objectives and research questions being addressed and including, where relevant, citations from the literature, an overview of the methodology, and an account of what original contribution (theoretical or practical) the research will make. Consider that the reader is likely a non-specialist. If a course release is being requested, please describe how the time will be spent to advance new or current research toward completion.
- Letter from a department chair or senior faculty mentor providing an assessment of how the proposed research aligns with the candidate’s program of research. If an applicant is requesting a course release, the department chair must indicate that the release would be granted (note that chairs may need approval from the dean to issue this assurance).
Applications should be submitted electronically. Supporting document (.docx or .pdf) attachments may be sent to dei@binghamton.edu. See the application link.
Grant recipient requirements
Grantees are required to submit a progress report to the Committee on the progress/outcomes
of the project 12 months from the date of the award. Recipients
of a Binghamton University Presidential Diversity Research Grants are required to
include an acknowledgment of receipt of grant funds in any publication resulting
from the study.
