Enhancement Grants

Enhancement Grants

The deadline to apply for a CFE Grant is October 1st.

CFE Grant Application

The Center for Faculty Excellence awards Enhancement Grants to fund projects designed to increase your productivity and effectiveness as a scholar and teacher. These grants are  awarded in the fall semester, and all funds must be spent by April 15th of the current fiscal year.

Up to $700.00 per academic year.  Only one submission per faculty member is allowed.

Full-time faculty holding rank, excluding those holding administrative appointments above the level of department head

Teaching: Funds are available for projects and activities contributing to the advancement of teaching and learning. Proposed projects may enhance courses with technology, encourage classroom engagement and interaction, promote innovative and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and establish partnerships with outside agencies to enrich the learning experience and/or improve professional practice experiences of Southeastern students.

Research or Scholarly/Creative Activity: Funds are available to offset certain costs associated with your research or scholarly/creative activity such as materials, equipment, expendable supplies, and student assistance. These funds may be used to support the development of proposals for external funding of research.

Travel may be requested but must be related to enhancement of the teaching, research, and creative activity described in your application.

 Including but not limited to:

  • Licensing Renewals
  • Publishing Fees
  • Memberships
  • Reassign Time
  • Salary Supplement or Student Labor
  • Technology already provided by the Office of Technology

All purchases must be made using the Center’s P-Card.  Grant recipients must make an appointment with the Center’s Administrative Assistant to make purchases:  [email protected] or 985-549-5791.  All monies must be encumbered by April 1st of the current fiscal year.

Please be reminded that internal grant funds are public monies; therefore, they must be managed in accordance with State procedures.  This means (1) processing funds through specific numbered budget categories; (2) completing the necessary purchase requisitions, travel authorizations, etc. in advance of any expenditure; and (3) following requirements to use specific vendors (University Bookstore, state contractors, etc.).  Remember that all materials and/or equipment purchased with these monies are the property of Southeastern Louisiana University.

  1. Submit to the Center a brief written report within one year after the funded activity. The report should describe the impact of the activity/experience. The purpose of this report is to validate the effectiveness of the grant program and to build documentation in support of continued funding for the program. Faculty who do not submit annual reports will not be eligible for future Center grants.
  2. Participate in the Center’s Faculty Conference on Teaching, Research & Creativity, which is held each fall.  The conference is designed to highlight the projects and disseminate the results to other Southeastern faculty.  If you are unable to participate, you may elect to participate the following fall semester.  Faculty are not eligible to receive another Enhancement Grant until this requirement is met.

  • The Arsenal of Democracy: Exploring Rhetorical History in WWII (field trip to WWII Museum)
  • Late-Leaving & the Adult Child’s Residential Return to the Parental Home: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses
  • Enhancing Student Learning with Child Life Teaching Tools
  • Enhancing Biofeedback experiences for Kinesiology & Health Studies Major
  • A prototype for recognizing brain activity by means of EEG & fNIR signals
  • Alligator Immune Systems & Transcriptomes
  • Real World Ready Learning with Arts Professionals in Photography
  • Video Equipment for Broadcast Students
  • The Visiting Artist Initiative IV with Martha Colburn
  • Once Upon a Time in the Park
  • Cross-Platform Web App for Career Fair Program
  • Use of Stata Statistical Software for Data Analysis
  • It’s All about Lifeguarding
  • Ouch! Worry Free Pediatric Nursing Procedures
  • Acquisition of Teaching Laboratory Supplies for Medical Parasitology & Invertebrate Zoology Courses
  • Engaging Students through Video Capture of Parasites
  • Making a Grand Entrance: Understanding the Fetal Movements in the Maternal Pelvis
  • Perching Substrate Preference in a Newly Introduced Population of Norops sagrei in Southeastern Louisiana
  • Role of Botanical(s) on Alkaline Phosphatase
  • 3-D Neuroanatomy Models to Enhance Classroom Engagement
  • Enhancing Nursing Education: Empowering Students through Telehealth and Virtual Reality Simulations in an Evolving Healthcare Landscape
  • Stress Responses of Sternotherus odoratus to Urbanization in Southeastern Louisiana
  • The effect of variation in growth rate on metamorphosis in the Three-lined Salamander (Eurycea guttolineata)
  • Protecting Graduate Students from Burnout with Self-Compassion and Authenticity
  • Building the Body One Joint at a Time: Enhancing student learning of anatomy through functional movement models.
  • Boots on the Ground
  • Virtual Horizons: Enhancing Human Anatomy Education through Virtual Reality
  • Salamanders with different life histories have different thyroid hormone receptivity
  • A Portable, Handheld Scanner for Identifying Dorsal Venous Patterns
  • Enhancing Stage Makeup Design Education through Facial Mapping Software
  • Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) in Mice and Other Species
  • New Orleans Poetry Festival Road Show Featuring South Korean Poets Ha Jaeyoun and Hwang Yu-won
  • Remarkable 2 Tablet for Writing and Editing
  • Academic Best Practices in Graduate Education: A Scoping Review