Call for Proposals
Innovation in Undergraduate Advising Microgrants
Fall 2025
Recognizing the critical link between quality academic advising and student success, the Office of Undergraduate Advising will offer limited microgrants to support the development and growth of innovative, scalable, and collaborative advising programs and initiatives to support undergraduate students in Fall 2025.
Priorities:
Drawing from UConn’s Strategic Plan as well as current undergraduate advising priorities, we particularly encourage projects, programs, tools, and initiatives that promote any of the following areas:
- Strengthening Student Success: Providing culturally competent, sustained advising, helping students to successfully navigate their academic and career pathways
- Promoting Retention and Graduation: Delivering effective, holistic supports that foster retention and encourage the timely graduation of UConn undergraduates
- Piloting New Practices and Programs: Implementing innovative, creative, and new-to-UConn advising practices
- Scaling Proven Programs: Expanding or replicating existing advising initiatives backed by data-driven evidence of their success so far
- Fostering Campuswide Collaboration: Centering collaboration across departments, programs, and campus partners to build a cohesive network of support for undergraduate students
- Building Advising Capacity: Strengthening resources, advisor support, and connections within UConn’s undergraduate advising community
- Advancing Advisor Expertise: Supporting the ongoing professional growth of both staff and faculty advisors, cultivating skills that support student success
Eligibility:
- Primary applicants must work in an undergraduate academic advising capacity at any UConn campus (e.g., faculty advisor; staff academic advisor) and must have the support of their school/college/regional campus advising director and/or direct supervisor.
- Grants of up to $2000 will be awarded on a rolling basis, beginning September 12, 2025.
- Applications will be accepted until funds have been expended.
Questions?
Contact Erin Ciarimboli, Director of Undergraduate Advising, at ec@uconn.edu.
To apply: Visit s.uconn.edu/advisinggrants
Examples of Previous Microgrant Winners
- Higher Education Coaching Academy for Advisors (College of Engineering)
- Advising Everywhere: Connecting Undergraduates with Advising across Campus (Stamford)
- Supporting our Spring to Storrs Population (Stamford)
- Faculty Fellows Pilot Programs (Stamford; College of Engineering)