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 2027 or 2028.
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 13, 2026, for consideration. Awards will be announced by December 18, 2026.
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.
This grant proposal includes research seminars, departmental educational sessions, or hosting 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 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.
Contact Information
- Managing Director
- Beth Hammond
- hammon25@broad.msu.edu
- Phone: (517) 353-4299
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