Early Career Opportunities

The following resources are intended to help new, early career, and young faculty explore their own career goals as well as a range of funding and grant opportunities. Many agencies and foundations provide special programs for faculty in the early part of their career.

Helpful Links

Index by Federal and Non-Federal agencies

View Funding Opportunities at University of California-Berkeley:

https://spo.berkeley.edu/fund/newfaculty.html

Private foundations

View Funding Opportunities at University of California Riverside:

https://graduate.ucr.edu/funding

Federal and private funding opportunities in the social sciences, arts and humanities

View Funding Opportunities at Northeastern University:

https://undergraduate.northeastern.edu/research/research-opportunities/resources/

National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding opportunities specific to area of study

View Funding Opportunities at University of Nevada, Las Vegas:

https://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/24/Research-EarlyCareerFundingOpportunities.pdf

Funding opportunities and resources by discipline

View Funding Opportunities at University of Nebraska- Lincoln:

https://research.unl.edu/facultyresources/docs/earlycareer.pdf

National Science Foundation CAREER Grant

Boise State maintains an internal web site to help faculty prepare for the NSF CAREER- Faculty Early Career Development Program. You must be logged into your myBoiseState account to access the website.

Visit NSF CAREER Resources to Support Your Proposal Development Webpage:

https://sites.google.com/a/boisestate.edu/career-grant-collection/?pli=1

Goal Setting For Scholarly Work & Research

Know Your Department

Understand what your requirements are- whether they are tenured related or other.  Some things to consider might include: what are acceptable journals to publish in? does proposal production count towards tenure? do funded grants counted towards tenure? what other scholarly activities are important- performances, books, conference presentation, invited talks, etc?

Make Connections and Build Collaborations

• Set up regular meetings with your mentor.
• Seek out informal mentors, advisors, counselors and senior faculty.
• Seek out collaborators inside and outside Boise State.

Develop Your Expertise

• Attend professional meetings.
• Become a reviewer for funding agencies, conferences, and journals.
• Identify what is necessary to become recognized in your field – look at colleagues who are Fellows in technical societies.
• Identify funding agencies of interest.
• Visit program managers.
• Meet with staff from Research Development and OSP.
• Identify research teams if they exist and meet with them.
• Identify forums to present your research.

Manage Your Schedule and Time Commitments

• Make research a priority.
• Develop agenda around best times to collect data, deadlines for conferences and grant submissions and best times to write.
• Establish blocks of time to work on your own research activities weekly.
• Plan for some leave time (buyouts) to maximize opportunities to write.
• Manage list serve subscriptions so that you receive useful information.