Accelerating Innovation
& Scholarly Impact
From innovative writing support programs, to funding research travel, we offer a unique and comprehensive support system. By encouraging creative and scholarly activity, we help faculty and students turn their aspirations into reality.
Our division supports scholarly activity through small grants because we are dedicated to helping students and faculty maintain momentum in pursuit of their goals. During the COVID19 pandemic, we supported academics from diverse departments with research and archival work to help them make up time. We continue to provide resources that meet certain criteria upon request. Learn more about funding opportunities.
We support innovative programs, projects,
and initiatives that advance scholarly impact.
We support the research, creative activity, and professional development of our tenure-track, non-tenure-track, and tenured faculty through mentoring opportunities with scholars at peer institutions through our External Mentorship Program. This program provides competitive funding to support the research, creative activity, and professional development of university faculty. It is designed for tenure-track, tenured, and non-tenure-track faculty seeking to establish or strengthen a mentoring relationship with a scholar at a peer institution.
The Writing Consulting Program is designed to help scholars thrive at every stage of the writing process. Through personalized strategies, the coaching experience fosters confidence, clarity, and productivity—turning writing from a source of stress into a rewarding practice. Our writing consultant program offers a PhD Bootcamp, writing workshops for faculty and graduate students, and a Spring term class for dissertators. Our Writing Coach empowers writers to build sustainable habits and overcome common challenges such as procrastination, writer’s block, and imposter syndrome. For those seeking hands-on guidance, our division’s Developmental Editor assists research projects and professional materials. From shaping arguments and refining tone to improving structure and flow, this help is designed to ensure that the work meets the highest scholarly standards. Our division also offers Faculty Writing Circles and Graduate Student Writing Circles.
We use Search Advocacy, an active recruitment tool that can be used in both faculty and staff searches. Search Advocates advance inclusive excellence by asking questions to help search committee members test their thinking, identify and promote practices that advance Oregon Rising, and minimize the impacts of cognitive and structural biases.
During the Fall of 2019, in an effort to build capacity among mid-level leaders, our division piloted the UO Coaching Program and have successfully embedded a coaching culture at the UO as a resource for our leadership, faculty, alumni and beyond.