Quinlan Application and Guidelines

Applicants must be one of the following:

• Full-time, tenured, or tenure-track faculty
• Librarians with faculty status
• Term faculty who have been employed by Marshall University for at least five consecutive years

Quinlan is to be used specifically for the dissemination of research and creative activities through presentation at professional meetings or conferences. Faculty can request up to $500 in travel funds but may only apply once per academic year. Please note that Quinlan may not be used for the discovery of knowledge or for the purchase of materials.  

• A letter briefly describing your activity or activities at the meeting or conference. The letter should address:
  • The nature and specifics of your activity, including your level of participation (include any additional committee responsibilities, officer duties).
  • The significance of your presentation and/or creative activity within your field.
  • The significance of the conference within your field, including participants and geographic area.
• A copy of your abstract for your presentation, or in the case of creative activity, documentation and a short paragraph describing your participation if no abstract was required. For example, a performer would include information describing his or her role in the performance; an artist should include information describing his or her work and its role in the event.
• Incomplete applications will not be considered for funding with the following exception:
  • Applications without documentation of acceptance will still be considered if submitted by the proper cycle deadline, but consideration for full eligibility and fund disbursement is contingent upon receipt of documentation of acceptance. Applicants are responsible for submitting their documentation of acceptance, once received, to complete their application and be considered for funding. Applicants who meet this exception are required to inform the designated research committee representative for their college once the application of funding has been submitted or the application may be viewed as incomplete and not subject to funding. Once the acceptance documentation is received, it should be submitted immediately to the designated college research committee member to complete the application.
• A budget, documenting that your Quinlan request does not exceed more than one-third of the total budget. Please note that disclosure of the source of matching funds is unnecessary.

Note: The Faculty Senate Research Committee understands that some faculty do not have responses regarding their acceptance to present at the conference, have departmental approval to attend a conference, or may not have yet chosen a conference to attend by the previously provided deadlines. Therefore the committee will be accepting applications for meetings or conferences throughout the cycle window and meet to review applications that are be submitted by faculty that have a conference or meeting that occurs during the designated cycle window. If there are no applicants to review by the meeting dates, the committee will not meet, and new applications will be reviewed at the next meeting. Cycle windows are October 1 – March 31 and April 1 – September 30.

Applicants with MU Co-Presenters who also apply for the award are eligible to receive up to 50% of their request which will be divided between the applicant and one other co-presenter. If the MU Co-Presenter(s) are not planning to attend, or are not applying for assistance, then the applicant may be awarded the full 1/3 of the cost, not to exceed $500.