Career Champion Awards

Full or partial funding (up to $10,0000) can be awarded to faculty and staff who implement the following types of initiatives. Please note: grants will not be awarded to high-cost events that have low student impact.

If you have any questions, please contact Brandon Prew, director of experiential education, at brandon.prew@MiamiOH.edu. 

Academic classes with work-related projects that tie to outside entities (employers or organizations). Examples of classroom projects include:

1. An organization’s representative presents a scenario to the class. The students provide a solution that can be implemented.
2. Students design and conduct a survey for an organization, including compiling the data and presenting recommendations.
3. Students rebrand an organization, designing a marketing strategy and assisting in the roll-out process.

Faculty- or staff-led events or initiatives (outside of class) that help students prepare for their careers. Examples of initiatives include:

1. Speaker/Panel: Bring prominent alumni to campus to speak to students.
   1. May include targeting students from backgrounds that may have added barriers to certain professional fields (i.e. Women in Engineering).
2. Site Visit: Offer a site visit to an organization to help students connect classroom content with its real-world applications.
3. Conference: Attend a conference or event that exposes students to job opportunities, technology, learning sessions, or networking they cannot experience in the classroom. 

• Proposals must be endorsed and approved by the applicant’s department chair or program director.
• The delivery, organization, and bulk of planning should be done by the award recipient.
• Proposals will be selected by CCES and a committee of faculty and associate deans.
• Learning outcomes should be geared toward undergraduate students on the Oxford campus because funding is made available for the Career Champion Awards from the Career Development Fee.
• Maximum amount funded is $10,000.
• Requests are for a single project, not multiple projects bundled together.
• Interdisciplinary proposals involving multiple departments and colleges are encouraged but not required.
• Faculty awarded Career Champion Award funding are required to acknowledge support from CCES when implementing initiatives.
• Funds will be awarded for student registration, travel, and lodging. Other categories such as faculty/staff organization membership fees, faculty/staff lodging and airfare, faculty/staff payment/stipend, event marketing, giveaways, food, snacks, supplies, etc. will not be considered. 
• The same event can be funded up to three-consecutive times.
• For any awarded event, a final report must be submitted to be eligible to receive funding for the following semester. This report is due no later than two weeks after the event.

If you have any questions, please contact Brandon Prew, director of experiential education, at brandon.prew@MiamiOH.edu.