Visiting Scholar Series

The University provides funds to the College to help being scholars to campus to work on research, interact with students, and enrich the university community. This may be a visit with a single scholar or support for a small group meeting. While visiting scholars are usually academics with university affiliation, the College has supported visits from other field experts who can enrich our students.

With a few exceptions, the College may be able to provide as much as 80% of costs for the visit; units are expected to cover the remaining costs. Preference is given to proposals that include explicit plans for activities with students. Note that speakers must be formally approved by the appropriate entity BEFORE they may be invited to campus. Speakers who will interact only with members of an individual unit can be approved by that unit’s chair/director; inclusion of ANY OTHER AUDIENCE requires higher level approvals. Initiate the speaker approval process here.

Proposals for visiting scholar support must be submitted through the unit chair/director. Once the chair/director has approved the proposal details, they will forward the proposal to the associate dean over visiting scholar funding. Once funding is approved by the College, unit business managers will work with the College financial business partners on allocation of funds.

Hosts must file a brief report on the visit for University records; the associate dean responsible for visiting scholar funds will solicit this report and provide examples.

Please include the following details in the visiting scholar proposal to submit to your chair/director:

• Visitor’s name, title, and affiliation
• Unit host
• Planned activities and goals of the visit, including plans for student experiences
• Estimated dates of visit
• Estimated budget, including unit cost-sharing

If you plan to advertise your event to anyone outside of your department, you must get speaker approval. To initiate this, click the button below.