{"id":2284,"date":"2021-09-07T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/?page_id=2284"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:47:42","slug":"furman-research-and-professional-growth-rpg-grants-sabbaticals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/programs-grants\/furman-research-and-professional-growth-rpg-grants-sabbaticals\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Research and Professional Growth (RPG) Grants &amp; Sabbaticals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman recognizes the value of supporting our faculty\u2019s scholarly and creative activities, enabling our institution to remain a vibrant and stimulating academic environment. The Research and Professional Growth committee (RPG) supports these activities by making funding recommendations for faculty grants and sabbaticals.\u00a0 Three different intramural grant opportunities are available, as described below. Application guidelines and application forms are available <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.box.com\/s\/63svnbxs9s8mj086y0tnkh9hlygt373g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Grant and sabbatical applications should be submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.app.box.com\/f\/a083fc024d384de78f46a60e2f3f39ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. More detailed information on how to apply provided is provided below, under \u201cHow to Apply\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>RPG funds are exclusively dedicated to supporting faculty scholarship, research, and creative activity. Requests to fund course development, mentoring, or teaching activities should instead be routed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/programs-grants\/grants\/\">Faculty Development Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about these funding opportunities can be directed to the chair of RPG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman recognizes the value of supporting our faculty\u2019s scholarly and creative activities, enabling our institution to remain a vibrant and stimulating academic environment. The Research and Professional Growth committee (RPG) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2284","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2284\/revisions\/4434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}