All tenured/tenure-track arts, humanities, and design faculty across the University of Minnesota system are eligible. Also eligible are tenured/tenure-track faculty whose research directions place them squarely within the arts and humanities or design. Faculty in arts, humanities, or design who hold full-time (100%) salaried continuous or fixed-term appointments may apply provided they are annually evaluated like tenured and tenure-track faculty (i.e., with substantially similar expectations for research accomplishments, independence, and ability to secure external funding).

Note that eligibility does not include: visiting faculty, those pursuing a Ph.D., those with non-salaried faculty appointment type W (e.g., yearly Medical School, usually without salary), or employees with T appointments (temporary) or A appointments (adjust from outside the University).

The award may be used for research needs, books, supplies, or travel expenses not otherwise supported by University of Minnesota or external funds. The award may not be used to supplement salary, nor may it be used for course buyouts. The awards should be spent within a three-year period.

Yes. It may not be used as salary or used towards course release, used to purchase computers, used to buy equipment already available for loan from the University, or used to support the editorial work of a journal.

A committee of arts, humanities, and design faculty (the Imagine Fund Advisory Committee) will review the applications and make recommendations.

The committee will adhere to the following conflict-of-interest guidelines:

No committee member shall participate in any phase of the discussion or decision-making process for applications or proposals that they have submitted or for which they are co-investigators or would receive a direct financial benefit. In addition, a committee member will recuse themselves from discussion or decision making for any proposals or applications they believe represents a conflict of interest.

Yes, but the award should be spent within three years.

Yes.

All publicity and promotional material for your project must include the following credit line, which was indicated in your contract.  The complete credit line must be clearly visible on all of your publicity materials and printed in an easy-to-read font size. The credit line should also be included in your event’s opening remarks along with any credit you give to additional co-sponsors.

CREDIT LINE:
This activity is supported by an Imagine Fund Special Events Grant, an initiative of the University of Minnesota Executive Vice President and Provost, established through a generous gift from the McKnight Foundation, and facilitated by the Institute for Advanced Study.

NOTE:
We do understand that, in some circumstances, there may not be space for the full credit line to appear on all print publicity or promotional materials. In these cases, you may substitute the credit line with: The University of Minnesota Imagine Fund.

*This project was submitted on behalf of the following Twin Cities-based faculty collaborators:

• Ananya Chatterjea, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance — College of Liberal Arts
• Juliette Cherbuliez, Department of French and Italian — College of Liberal Arts
• Rebecca Krinke, Department of Landscape Architecture — College of Design
• Richard Lee, Department of Psychology — College of Liberal Arts
• Serge Rudaz, Department of Physics — College of Science and Engineering and Director, University Honors Program