Center of Global Initiatives
Rollins International Grants (RIG) Individual
The overarching purpose of Rollins Internationalization Grants is to support the College Mission of Global Citizenship by funding eligible international travel by faculty and staff.
All grant travel should be informed by the Rollins College definition of Global Citizenship and the Global Experience Index. The Committee strongly encourages proposals that also engage with the themes of Global Diversity and Global Challenges and Solutions. We encourage individuals to explore existing relevant frameworks such as the UNSDGs, Grand Challenges for Engineering (http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges.aspx), human rights (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights), the UN Global Compact (https://unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/mission/principles), the Social Progress Index (https://www.socialprogress.org/), and/or resources focused on climate change (https://www.climateworks.org/ and https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/). For Global Diversity, the Rollins Global Learning and Diversity learning outcomes (currently under development) and the NACE competencies for equity and inclusion (https://www.naceweb.org/career-readiness/competencies/career-readiness-defined), may also be helpful.
Grant proposals should fall into one (or both of the following categories):
- International Development: The international experience will directly support efforts by faculty and staff to develop curricular programs, significantly enhance the international content of an existing course, develop a new internationally-focused course, and/or create larger curricular or co-curricular programs that are internationally focused. Priority will be given to proposals that are focused on Global Challenges and Solutions and/or Global Diversity.
- Professional Development: The international experience will permit the applicant to understand better a part of the world outside the U.S The international experience must have a scholarly or practical focus, directly informing the applicant’s work with the Rollins community. Priority will be given to proposals that are focused on Global Challenges and Solutions and/or Global Diversity.
- The travel itinerary and project outcomes should be aligned with the College mission and the goals of the grant.
- Applicants will be required to provide concrete examples of the impact of the grant on their work at Rollins. Successful applicants will then be held accountable in two post-travel grant reports (at 60 days and one-year). Participants who fail to submit these reports will be ineligible to receive funding for seven years after their date of travel.
- Priority will be given to those who have not traveled using funding from this program during the last five years. Applicants who have traveled using funding from this program during the last five years may apply, but their applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis and funded only if there is a particularly compelling reason why their travel must take place within the five-year time frame.
- Rollins Internationalization Grants may not be combined with any other source of internal funding.
- The maximum grant amount is $4500, and grants are subject to budgetary availability.
- Grants may only be used to fund travel outside of the U.S. for the reasons listed above. They may not be used for any other purpose.
- Funds awarded in a given academic year must be used by August 31st of that same academic year (i.e. funds from grants awarded in 2023-24 must be used by 8/31/2024).
- Grant funds may not be used for travel to a conference, meeting, or other organized proceedings.
Eligibility:
- Tenured faculty and full-time tenure-track faculty with continuing contracts.
- Other faculty with an endorsement from the department chair, who must confirm that the faculty member has been teaching at Rollins for at least two semesters and that the individual is on the teaching schedule for the term following the grant travel.
- Full-time staff who have worked at Rollins for at least a year, with the endorsement of the supervisor.
Eligible faculty and staff members should submit applications according to the following deadlines:
For 2023/24, November 15, 2023 deadline for RIG applications with travel before May 31, 2024.
Then, moving forward:
- February 15 deadline for travel between June 1 and December 31.
- September 15 deadline for travel between January 1 and May 31.
Each application will be evaluated on whether or not it meets the criteria stated above. Applications will be reviewed by a sub-committee of the Global Initiatives Committee.
Following the expenditure of a grant award, all recipients are required to file a preliminary report on their experiences/ accomplishments. Initial reports are due within 60 days of returning from travel.
All recipients are then required to file a final report on the progress towards intended outcomes detailed in the grant application. Final reports are due within one year of returning home from travel.
Both reports must be submitted via a Qualtrics survey.