NetVUE Grants to Individuals for Vocational Exploration
Forecasted
NetVUE Grants to Individuals for Vocational Exploration support faculty and staff research and teaching projects that expand scholarship and practice of vocation in undergraduate education.
Funder: Council of Independent Colleges
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Fall application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $5,000–$25,000 for a semester, summer, or one academic year
Summary: Supports individual and small collaborative projects advancing scholarship, teaching, leadership, and practice of vocation in undergraduate education.
Key Information: Applicants must be full-time faculty or staff at NetVUE member institutions and cannot concurrently lead an institutional NetVUE grant project.
Description
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), with support from Lilly Endowment Inc., administers this NetVUE program to fund individual projects by faculty and staff. It provides resources and guidance for research and pedagogical innovation that expand the scholarship, conversation, and practice of vocation in undergraduate education. Projects should produce enduring resources, such as scholarly articles, course syllabi, learning activities, or program designs.
The program welcomes new and established scholars and practitioners, including smaller and medium-sized projects. Priorities include making vocational exploration and discernment available to all students, supporting belonging and inclusion, and introducing fresh considerations and frameworks for vocation. Individual research on or development of institutional programs may fit, but institutional programming itself is not the focus of this grant.
