REAs are highly competitive internal grant awards intended to promote high-quality research, scholarship, and creative activity by tenured and tenure-track faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University. The awards provide seed funds for scholarly or creative projects that will produce pilot data or other preliminary work for proposals to be submitted to outside funding agencies, and they fund excellent scholarly or creative activities of a one-time nature (such as completion of a significant book).
REAs are awarded upon the recommendation of the CAS Research Proposal Review Committee. Criteria used in evaluating the proposals include: project and budget justification, significance of project outcomes, originality of concept, appropriateness of project design and methods, qualifications of applicant for implementing the project, potential impact on applicant’s discipline, probability of achieving the project objectives, potential for generating future external funding, and appropriateness of schedule for the project activities, if applicable.
For guidelines and applications for REAs, visit the College’s web site: http://www.cas.ilstu.edu/faculty/awards.shtm