Professional Development Grants

Applicants must submit a signed Supervisor Support Form with their application. Please download, fill out the form, and submit to your supervisor for approval and sign-off prior to applying for a grant.

Applicants will need to provide a financial contact person from their department or unit and a funding string when filling out the application. For the funding string, only 101 or 136 funds are able to be used. A full funding string is required with application: XXX(FUND) – XXXXXX (UDDS/Dept Id) – X (program). Project codes can be added to the string after the program if necessary.

Full funding string example: 101-101010-6.

Please have this information prepared prior to applying.

Questions? Contact info.oacs@wisc.edu.

• Only staff members who have never attended a national conference before are eligible to apply for the National Conference Grant (if you would like to attend a national conference, but it will not be your first time, please take a look at the “Choose Your Own Adventure” grant)
• We encourage staff whose units have limited/no funding available for professional development to apply for this grant
• This grant will cover all expenses, up to $2,500, that meet the requirements of the UW policies & procedures for reimbursement (including airfare). Grant recipients are responsible for arranging all lodging and travel accommodations.

Members of the advising, career services, and learning support communities will do initial screening of all applications, before making recommendations to the Office of Academic & Career Success.

Applications will be evaluated on the following:

• Clarity of purpose and goals for the conference attendance and how this opportunity would specifically impact your role
• How you will use your attendance to benefit the advising, career services, and/0r learning support community or the greater UW-Madison community

Other notes:

• Please spell out acronyms or abbreviations
• We are looking for as much detail as you can provide in your responses to the above questions within the application

Grant applications will open again in early summer 2025.

Applicants must submit a signed Supervisor Support Form with their application. Please download, fill out the form, and submit to your supervisor for approval and sign-off prior to applying for a grant.

Applicants will need to provide a financial contact person from their department or unit and a funding string when filling out the application. For the funding string, only 101 or 136 funds are able to be used. A full funding string is required with application: XXX(FUND) – XXXXXX (UDDS/Dept Id) – X (program). Project codes can be added to the string after the program if necessary).

Full funding string example: 101-101010-6.

Please have this information prepared prior to applying.

Questions? Contact info.oacs@wisc.edu.

• Any member of the UW–Madison advising, career services, or learning support community is welcome to apply for a “Choose Your Own Adventure” grant.
• We encourage staff whose units have limited/no funding available for professional development to apply.
• This grant will cover all expenses that meet the requirements of the UW policies & procedures for reimbursement (including airfare). If applicable, grant recipients are responsible for arranging any lodging and travel accommodations.

Members from the advising, career services, and learning support communities will do an initial evaluation of all applications and then make recommendations to the Office of Academic & Career Success.

Applications will be evaluated on the following:

• Clarity of purpose and goals for the activity or experience and how this opportunity would specifically impact your role
• How you will use the experience to benefit the advising, career services, and/or learning support community or the greater UW-Madison community

Other notes:

• Please spell out acronyms or abbreviations
• We are looking for as much detail as you can provide in your responses to the above questions within the application

Grant applications will open again in early summer 2025.