Committee Makeup 

The Committee on Creative Work and Research is a standing committee of the Faculty Senate.  It is composed of nine (9) voting faculty members and a representative of the Office of the Provost as a member ex officio.  The faculty members are drawn from each of the colleges as follows:  five (5) members from the College of Arts and Sciences and one (1) from each of the professional colleges.

 Responsibilities

In order to encourage creative work and research on the part of its faculty members, Valparaiso University offers opportunity for appropriate recognition and financial assistance for such work through award programs administered by the Creative Work and Research Committee.  These programs, for undergraduate faculty and students, include the following:

1. University Research Professorships
2. Wheat Ridge Ministries - O.P. Kretzmann Memorial Fund for research in the healing arts and sciences
3. Kapfer Research Award (College of Arts & Sciences)
4. Summer Research Fellowships
5. Expense Grants associated with Creative Work and Research
6. Undergraduate Research Faculty Development and Faculty/Student Expense Grants
7. Undergraduate Summer Research Housing Grants