Learning and Networking | NetVUE Grants to Individuals

CIC is delighted to announce a new program of individual grants that is being offered through its Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). This new program—Grants to Individuals for Vocational Exploration—is designed to support full-time staff and faculty members at NetVUE institutions who are undertaking their own projects related to vocational exploration and discernment. While the NetVUE program has long offered grant programs for institutions, this is its first program for individual projects.

Many employees at NetVUE member institutions engage and contribute to vocation-related work on campus through their scholarship, teaching, and practice, but they often need more resources to support new research and pedagogical innovation. Through this new NetVUE program, CIC seeks to offer funding and guidance for projects that develop and expand the existing field of scholarship, practice, and pedagogy related to vocation in undergraduate education. 

Grants may be requested in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 for use over a semester, summer, or one academic year. They may be used as supplemental sabbatical funding, or—through arrangement with the appropriate supervisors—may include partial buyouts of responsibilities for teaching or other duties. Proposals are welcomed from both new and established scholars and practitioners. There are two possible submission deadlines: October 3, 2025, for projects in spring and/or summer 2026, and March 11, 2026, for projects to be undertaken next fall. Projects planned for the 2026–2027 academic year may be submitted at either deadline. 

More information about this grant opportunity is available on the NetVUE website. For any questions not addressed there, please contact Kari Kloos, NetVUE grants program officer, at kkloos@cic.edu or (303) 964-5733.