We believe that among our best opportunities for a long-lasting impact is the engagement of our faculty in this program. We offer programs that will help a core group of our faculty deepen their own theological sense of calling. To achieve a greater degree of integration between a faculty member's professional discipline and his or her sense of religious calling, we have three initiatives:

Faculty Fund for Vocational Exploration

The purpose of this fund is to provide stipends to those faculty who wish to undertake research, redesign courses, or travel to workshops. Research in every discipline can be viewed as an opportunity for God's self-revelation. We're looking for new and exciting ways in which faculty can incorporate the methodology and findings of their research into course content and share these results with their students in an effort to move students toward a greater understanding of vocation.

Projects could also explore the University's institutional vocation: Learn, Lead, Serve. How does this vocation impact our students? What does it mean for faculty research and how it is shared with students?

Proposals will be submitted to the program director and reviewed by the Lilly Advisory Committee. Especially important in evaluating these grants will be two considerations:

The way in which the proposal will affect the growth in theological awareness of vocation for our undergraduates. The extent to which younger faculty will be enabled to increase their understanding of and commitment to the purposes of the Lilly Grant Program.

To download information and a grant proposal form for the Faculty Fund for Vocational Exploration, please click on Request for Proposal.

To read about funded research projects for 2002, click here.

To read about funded research projects for 2003, click here.

To read about funded research projects for 2004, click here.

To read about funded research projects for 2005, click here.

To read about funded research projects for 2006, click here.

To read about funded research projects for 2007, click here.