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title: "Faculty Summer Grants"
url: "/academics/research/faculty-summer-grants"
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date: 2026-05-28
updated: 2026-05-28
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# Faculty Summer Grants

## Faculty Summer Grants

Manhattan University offers a summer grant program for eligible full-time faculty. Grant recipients receive stipends of $3,000, and the University offers up to 20 summer grants each year.

A list of eligible faculty members and the application paperwork is sent out by the Office of the Provost each fall. Information about eligibility is found in the Faculty Handbook.

### Guidelines

Each applicant is requested to submit 7 copies of his/her application. This program is in no way to be used to support doctoral dissertations; its focus should be post-doctoral. The scholarly excellence and intellectual respectability of the proposed project are the primary criteria for selection.

- A faculty member who applies for a summer grant during his/her first year at Manhattan University will require a letter of recommendation from his/her department chairperson.
- After having received a summer grant, a faculty member will ordinarily not receive another grant until two summers have elapsed; this includes any summer grant negotiated at the time of hire.
- No faculty member should share in more than one of these summer grants at one time.
- The purpose of the grant is to free a faculty member from financially remunerative work in order to concentrate on scholarly activities. Summer grants are not prizes; they are intended to support scholarly work to the applicant’s development as a scholar and teacher, or for the improvement of Manhattan University’s programs.
- Each applicant should describe the proposed project in language that is intelligible to non-specialists; where technical language is necessary, an attempt should be made to summarize in “lay” language.
- Summer grant recipients are expected to return to Manhattan University for the academic year following the awarding of the grant. At this time they are expected to file a formal report on the summer activities to their Department Chairperson, their Dean, and the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

 

Read basic information and guidelines for receiving a summer research grant for faculty at Manhattan University.