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Internal Funding Opportunities

Bentley University is committed to providing opportunities for faculty and staff to enhance their research, scholarship and teaching. See below for more information about grants and other funding opportunities for the current academic year.  

Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Fund

Focus area: Professional development

Deadline: Rolling

Grant amount: $1,000

Bentley-Gallup Steering Committee

Focus area: Research involving the Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Report or survey data set

Deadline: Fall Application: December 4, 2025; Spring Applications: TBD

Grant amount: $5,000

Bentley Research Council (BRC)

Focus area: Faculty research

Deadline: Fall applications: May 31

Grant amount: $7,500

Center for Health and Business (CHB)

Focus area: Seed funding to support innovative health-related initiatives

Deadline: Fall Application: September 5, 2025; Spring Application: TBD

Grant amount: Varies

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Cronin Office of International Education: GlobAL Action Learning Grants

Focus area: Courses that use action learning to meet interdisciplinary and global student learning outcomes

Deadline: January 31, 2026

Grant amount: $5,000 (individual faculty member) or $10,000 (faculty pairs)

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Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC)

Focus area: Professional development

Deadlines: Fall I Proposals: Wednesday, September 24, 2025; Fall II Proposal: Wednesday, November 12, 2025; Spring I Proposals: Wednesday, February 18, 2026; Spring II Proposals: Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Grant amount: $2,500

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Faculty Summer Grants

Focus area: Basic, applied and pedagogical research 

Deadline: February 10, 2025

Grant amount: $10,000 

Hoffman Center for Business Ethics: Mini Grants

Focus area: Supporting research and teaching in business ethics

Deadline(s): Fall applications: October 18; Spring applications: February 21

Grant amount: $2,000 

Inclusive Teaching Fellows Initiative

Focus area: Inclusive pedagogy

Deadline: September 18, 2025

Funding amount: $1,500

Open Access Funds

Focus area: Covers Article Processing Charge (APC) and other costs associated with publishing research in open access journals

Deadline: Rolling; submit requests directly to department chairs

Funding amount: Varies

Valente Center for Arts and Sciences: Humanities Seminar

Focus area: Year-long seminar highlighting transdisciplinary themes with roots in the humanities

Deadline: May 1 (Humanities Seminar); Rolling deadline for other opportunities

Funding amount: $8,000 for Organizing Scholar; up to $3,000 for participants

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Valente Center for Arts and Sciences: Student Research Assistantships

Focus area: Providing faculty with motivated student research assistants; affording undergraduate students with substantive supervised research experience

Deadlines: Friday prior to the start of the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters

Funding amount: Up to 120 hours of research

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