One K-State Fund
Achieving excellence as a next-generation land-grant university requires adapting our processes, systems, and structures. Learn more about the university strategic projects that are driving changes in the way we work together as One K-State.
Our Academic Program Review and Revitalization initiative will help ensure our academic portfolio meets the changing needs of students. In the Fall of 2023, the Office of the Provost launched a new Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) to invest up to $1 million in new academic programs, including microcredentials in the FY24 year. A call for proposals has been established designed to spur creative curricular proposals university-wide. The university’s Biomanufacturing Training and Education Initiative includes efforts such as a multidisciplinary faculty hiring initiative and a major equipment grant program, both building K-State’s capacity as a leader supporting biomanufacturing in Kansas. The university is reviewing its budget and resource allocation model to ensure it supports achieving the imperatives of the Next-Gen K-State strategic plan. This project will develop the tools needed to guide K-State through all future campus planning projects to accommodate the needs of a growing university. Modernizing our university travel and expense processes and systems is one way we are advancing operational excellence as One K-State. The university is now accepting proposals to address the backlog of past due maintenance and renewal needs for building systems and components. To achieve our vision of becoming a leader as a next-generation land-grant university, a much stronger, less-siloed, more unified operational framework is needed. Learn more about the new organizational structures being put in place to drive operational excellence across the university. The university will be establishing a unified, comprehensive performance appraisal form and a new electronic learning and performance management system. We are embarking on the creation of our next Strategic Enrollment Plan, building upon our first five-year plan and aligning our efforts in enrollment, retention and graduation with the Next-Gen K-State strategic plan imperatives. This initiative seeks to implement a new, optimized universal time and leave system for use universitywide.
Future Funding Opportunities
University Outstanding Scholars Awards
The University Outstanding Scholars Awards are designed to recognize mid-career tenured faculty members who are on an accelerated path for continued academic distinction.
In addition to being named a University Outstanding Scholar, each awardee will receive a $10,000 base salary increase. Eligible faculty hold the rank of tenured associate professor, and faculty from every school or college are eligible. Up to 10 faculty will be selected each year. The first round of awards were announced in June 2024. Awards will be announced at the end of each spring semester, and appointments will begin July of each year.
Nominations due Feb. 28, 2025
Travel, Acceleration and Planning (TAP) Grants
View the Feb. 6, 2024 announcement
The Office of the Vice President for Research announced new funding is available to assist faculty in research planning and large-grant development.
The Travel, Acceleration and Planning, or TAP, Grants will provide funding for travel to meet with agency or foundation personnel, travel to meet with collaborators at other institutions for proposal development meetings, support for potential co-investigators at other institutions to travel to K-State for proposal development meetings and faculty and/or staff support for large center-level grant development.
Academic Innovation Fund
In the Fall of 2023, the Office of the Provost launched a new Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) to invest up to $1 million per academic year in new academic programs and alternative credentials. The first round of awards were announced in spring 2024, and the FY 2024-2025 call for proposals is now launched, designed to spur creative and collaborative curricular proposals universitywide.
Proposals may include new degree programs at all levels, minors, certificates as well as credit and noncredit microcredentials. Proposals may target existing or new audiences with a focus on positioning K-State as the first-choice education and business partner in Kansas. Additionally, proposals may build on existing curriculum or propose totally new curriculum.
Executive summaries due Oct. 4, 2024 for first-round review
Selected programs will then submit full proposals, due Jan. 31, 2025
K-State 105 Project Proposals
Call for proposals launched Dec. 11, 2023
K-State 105 is Kansas State University's answer to the call for a comprehensive economic growth and advancement solution for Kansas. The initiative leverages the statewide K-State Research and Extension network to deliver the full breadth of the university's collective knowledge and solution-driven innovation to every Kansan, right where they live and work. Additionally, K-State 105 forges the connections and partnerships that create access to additional expertise within other state institutions and agencies, nonprofits and corporations - all part of an effort to build additional capacities and strengths in each of the 105 counties in the state.
Do you have an idea for a K-State 105 project? Are you looking for collaboration and expertise with K-State 105 partners? Use the link below and follow the instructions to create a project proposal.