Welcome to the Eastern Illinois University College of Education and Professional Studies Grants and Contracts Office. We are here to assist EIU CEPS faculty and staff to write grant proposals and to administer those grants that are subsequently awarded. Following are some of the services that we provide:

EIU Grant Services for CEPS Faculty

1. Grant-seeking resources:

• CEPS Grants webpage: http://www.eiu.edu/ceps/grants
• Federal register (in Office of Grants and Research (OGR)
• Links to websites: US Dept of Education, Illinois State Board of Education, Illinois Board of Higher Education, etc. (see External Grant Competitions section).
• Periodic (approximately monthly ) e-mail from AASCU (Grants Resource Center) forwarded from OGR – to be put on the "mailing" list

• Written reference materials - CEPS & OGR – includes:

1. Guide to Technology Grants (AASCU-GRC)
2. New Investigator Guide (AASCU-GRC)
3. Guide to Grant Seeking on the Web
4. National Guide to Foundation Funding in Higher Education
5. The Foundation Directory

• IRIS (searchable database from U of I)
• Requests for Proposals (RFPs) directly from funding agencies

2. Grant-writing support:

• Editorial - proofreading
• Budget development assistance
• Budget proofreading
• Experience with similar grants or funding agencies
• Clerical assistance – getting proposal through Eastern’s approval process and mailing to funding agency

3. Grant administration support:

• Clerical and Accounting support supervision – if support is paid by the grant and administered through the CEPS Grants office

• Assistance with EIU administrative policies and procedures

-Grant accounting

-Business office (budgets, payments)

-Purchasing

-Payroll

-Grants & research

-Other departments

• Bookkeeping liaison – if clerical support not administered through the CEPS Grants office - assistance with set up & troubleshooting of grant financial records
  
  

Grant Proposal Information

In addition to the content for the proposal which is supplied by the grant-writers themselves, there is a lot of information that is required for a grant proposal that faculty and staff may not have at their fingertips:

EIU description (text): Information

EIU facts (statistics): EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY - OPIS

EIU Internal Grant Competitions

Council for Faculty Research (CFR) Grants administered through the Office of Grants and Research: Internal Funding

Summer Research Awards – also administered through the Office of Grants and Research: Internal Funding

CEPS Telefund Research/Creative Activity Grants – administered by the CEPS Research Committee headed by Gloria Leitschuh (CSD).

External Grant Competitions

SELECTED LINKS:
Illinois Board of Higher Education: Grants

Illinois State Board of Education: Illinois State Board of Education

US Department of Education: U.S. Department of Education (ED) -- Funding

National Science Foundation: NSF - Education

CEPS Grant News

This portion of the CEPS Grants website is currently under construction. If you have any news or other items of interest, please submit them to Mary Bower, CEPS Grants office at csmeb.

CEPS Scholarly Activities

This portion of the CEPS Grants website is currently under construction. If you have any articles, publications, presentations, conferences, projects, or other items of interest, please submit them to Mary Bower, CEPS Grants office at csmeb.

CEPS Faculty Research Interests Database

This portion of the CEPS Grants website is currently under construction. It will consist of an Excel spreadsheet listing all of the CEPS faculty and their research interests so that any CEPS faculty can review this database for faculty with similar research/creative activity interests. Our office will contact all CEPS faculty this fall to set up this database. Since we will be updating this database continually, please let us know if you would like to make any changes.

CEPS Grants and Programs Reference

This portion of the CEPS Grants website is currently under construction. It will consist of a Word document listing all current CEPS grants and programs for your review.

CEPS Grants Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Where is the CEPS grants office? 2303 Buzzard – NW corner, 2^nd floor.

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