The Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership will be offering programming to complement what Broad College of Business students are learning in the classroom. We will be working with our esteemed faculty to offer extracurricular programming for students as well as offering professional development opportunities for faculty around integrating ethics and social responsibility into curriculum across the college.
Curricular Mini-Grants
CESRL is sponsoring curricular mini-grants, to be provided to instructors who have plans to better infuse ethics and/or social responsibility content in one or more courses in 2025 or 2026.
We will allocate up to three awards, with a maximum grant of $4000 per award. Each request will be scored by CESRL directors based on the criteria below:
Curricular Grant Criteria
Primary criteria (scored 1-10)
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Secondary criteria (scored 1-5)
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The highest-scoring applications will receive the awards.
Apply for a Curricular Grant
Applications must be submitted by November 7, 2025, for consideration. Awards will be announced by December 19, 2025.
Speaker Series Grant Application
CESRL Research Seminar/Symposia Grant Application Sponsored by the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership This is a rolling grant, on a first-come-first-serve basis as funds last The Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership is excited to launch an updated Speaker Series Grant program for the departments in the Broad College of Business. In the previous edition of the grant each department could bring in seminar speakers that had research interests related to ethics and social responsibility and was allocated $2000 per year. This was equally allocated across all departments for a total amount of $12,000/- annually.
Our updated grant proposal will not just include research seminars, but also include opportunities for each department to host a research symposia. CESRL will sponsor up to $5,000/- if any department would like to host a research symposia. If the grant request exceeds $,5000/- the remaining dollars should either be covered by the department, or by the individual requesting the grant. Please note that approval of the unit head will be necessary.
The intent of this grant is to bring faculty and industry experts to campus to engage with our students, faculty and staff around discipline specific topics as they intersect with ethics and socially responsible leadership. CESRL wants to support departments in the creation of unique and engaging events to help deepen our students, faculty, and staff’s understanding around the intersection of ethics, and social responsibility with new research, teaching pedagogies, and industry trends. This “new” seminar/symposia grant will be Biennial. Departments can still request speaker funds, but they will be used against the budgeted $5,000 per department.
Appropriate types of programs that these funds can be used for are speaker fees/honorariums, travel and accommodations for speakers, logistical fees (room reservations, technical support, marketing, and refreshments (no more than 10% of the total budget). Symposia have the potential to make Broad College known in a particular domain, and have the potential of continuing are encouraged. For example, a CESRL grant may be used to follow up and apply for a NSF conference grant proposal, or a foundation conference grant proposal to promote research in the focal domain.
Grant applications are open.
In filling this request, you agree to adhere to the following conditions:
- The speaker will present on a topic related to Ethics and Social Responsibility.
- The department chair has approved the matching funds for the request being submitted.
- The grant may be turned down if the total funds allocated for the department exceeds $2000/- CESRL will make every effort to consider grants in excess of $2000/- for each department, depending on fund availability and allocation fairness considerations.
Apply for the Speaker Series Grant
Sponsored by the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership
This is a rolling grant, on a first-come-first-serve basis as funds last.
Research Grants
The purpose of the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership (CESRL) offering Research Grants is to support the ongoing development of new knowledge around ethics and social responsibility. This research will elevate the educational experiences of the students within the Broad College of Business as well as continue the national conversation around innovative aspects of how ethics and social responsibility impact all practices of business in our global society.
The Center invites proposals for research grants from individuals within the college. Grant’s primary investigators must be full time faculty within the Broad College. The Grant award should primarily be used to purchase data, conduct surveys/lab experiments etc. There will be two awards, up to a maximum of $9000/- each. More than two awards may be granted depending on budgets available to support research efforts. For data requests more than $9000/- CESRL will require the individual to seek support from the department to fill the balance.
CESRL will prioritize supporting research opportunities for Assistant Professors and Doctoral Students within the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Research funding will be decided by CESRL in collaboration with Institute of Business Research. Funds will be available once every academic year.
Funded applicants must be willing to present in a speaker series with the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership to share findings from the data (surveys, lab experiments, studies, etc.) For purchased data, we may request that the individuals share the data with rest of the college. In that sense, we will prioritize data purchases that also have cross-departmental value.
Apply for a Research Grant
Applications must be submitted by November 7, 2025, for consideration. Awards will be announced by December 19, 2025.
Contact Information
- Managing Director
- Beth Hammond
- hammon25@broad.msu.edu
- Phone: (517) 353-4299
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