For Faculty and Staff
Integrate Career Skills Into Your Course
UD faculty and staff are encouraged to partner with the UD Career Center to integrate professional development curricula into their courses and programs.
Explore how to integrate career skills into your academic work on the Career Center Canvas site by requesting access below or contacting your academic liaison.
Faculty and Staff Career Innovation Grant
About the Grant
The UD Career Center Faculty & Staff Career Innovation Grant (FSCIG) provides funding for UD faculty and staff to create professional and career development activities for their students. Funding is provided to offset costs associated with infusing career-related materials or experiences into existing or new class curricula or department, program, school, Division of Student Life and Department of Athletics-based initiatives. The grant also helps facilitate full participation for students who may not be able to attend or participate in critical career and professional development activities.
Required Materials and Application Instructions
Who can apply:
- UD faculty (includes faculty RSO advisors)
- UD staff that work directly with students (instructors, program advisors, academic advisors, Greek Organizations, Academic and Honor Societies, RSO advisors, etc.)
- The primary contact or project leader must be a faculty or staff member who does not work for the UD Career Center (UDCC staff can support projects, but cannot be project leaders)
- A timeline for the project
- A clear description of the purpose of the project and how it will enhance the professional and career development of UD students
- A summary of expected career related learning outcomes and the expected number of students the project will impact
- An explanation of how the information will be shared with students who are not able to attend the events/activities (e.g., video recordings, summary notes, list of additional resources, “how to” guides for other staff or faculty to replicate a similar project, etc.)
- A description of how the project will be continued or sustained in the future after the initial funds have been used if the program or event is not a one time event (projects will be funded one time only)
- An itemized budget
- A minimum of 15 business days advance notice
Project applications that exhibit one or more of the following will be given the highest consideration:
- Connect or build upon other strategic priorities of the university
- Involve collaboration, whether it is interdisciplinary by field or by the makeup of faculty, students and staff, particularly with UDCC
- Identify a model or strategy that can be successfully replicated
- Supports career and professional development of historically marginalized students as well as students with high financial need.
Applications are reviewed and allocated by a Career Center Grant Fund Committee made up of Career Center professionals. Funding decisions are made within seven to 10 business days.
- To officially accept a grant, recipients must complete, sign and submit the UD Career Center Award Acceptance Agreement and the budget form.
- Recipients are expected to assist in sharing their experience with the UD community. This may include written summaries for newsletters, annual reports or attending events.
- Upon conclusion of a project or event, recipients are also required to submit a financial record to include all expenditures, income and receipts.
- Awardees are also required to submit a one-page post-event summary outlining the outcomes achieved by utilizing the grant, as well as include the names and UD IDs of each student participant (a link to the form will be provided by the grant committee). Photos should also be included in the grant summary along with a signed photo release> from students that are in the photo(s).
- All students that participated in the event/session must complete the UD FSCIG Assessment Survey.
- Please name the UD Career Center Faculty & Staff Career Innovation Grant through websites, annual reports, literature, newsletters or news releases, etc. Promotional materials should also be shared with UDCC for cross-marketing purposes. The award must be used for the activities outlined in the application.
- Awardees will be reimbursed for the amount included in submitted receipts, even if they do not end up using the entire amount awarded.
- Funds will be awarded when the completed student assessment surveys, post-event summary, photos and attendance information has been received.
“This trip gave me further insight into the corporate workplace of three different companies. It also gave me the ability to learn more about the specific jobs I am interested in pursuing after graduation.”
“My key takeaways were the wide range of dance opportunities and how dance careers are dynamic. There are more careers and pathways besides owning your own dance studio or performing in a company.”
“Seeing and understanding the operations of a landfill was very eye opening. Understanding the engineering, labor and byproducts that are a result of a facility like this completely changed my perspective on landfills.”
“I was able to reflect on my college journey and realize how far I have come even though I had thought that I had not made much progress prior. I also learned that when you start college, you are at a life stage where one tends to go off of others' recommendations. This takes a shift by the end of college as one begins to base actions and opinions more on your own.”
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