Drs. Roy and Barbara Saigo established the Saigo Endowment for Faculty and Staff Excellence Fund in 2007 to support faculty and staff in their ongoing professional development.
The purpose of the fund is to encourage and assist faculty and staff with scholarly activities including professional presentations, performances and exhibitions, research and creative endeavors, and publications.
Applicants can apply for up to $1,000 for reimbursement of eligible expenses between July 1 and June 30 of the current fiscal year.
Deadline: March 18, 2024 at 4 p.m.
Step 1: Review the eligibility requirements and budgetary guideline sections of this webpage for this grant.
Step 2: Discuss your project and intent to apply with your department chair/director and dean/supervisor as upon submission, your proposal will automatically be routed to them for review and approval. All approvals (signatures) are facilitated electronically in Wizehive and applications will not be considered without all required approvals.
Step 3a: Click on the red "Apply Here" button to login to Wizehive using your StarID.
Step 3b: If you have one or more St. Cloud State Co-PI's, you are required to complete a Co-PI Request form for each Co-PI participating in the project. This process will trigger a notification to your Co-PI(s) requiring them to acknowledge participation in the project.
Step 4: If applicable, confirm your Co-PI(s) have completed their Co-PI Request forms. You can confirm this by looking for the green box next their name(s) within the Co-PI Request section of your application.
Step 5: Click on "Submit" to put forward your COMPLETE application for consideration. It must be submitted prior to the posted deadline above or it will not be considered.
Step 6: Once your completed application is electronically approved in Wizehive by your department chair/director AND dean/supervisor, your application will be distributed to a review panel for review and consideration. Please note that the review process takes time, so please be patient. Updates will be sent out as soon as the review process is concluded.
DISCLAIMER: Applicants are encouraged to submit their electronic application early to avoid potential access issues. Applications after the deadline will not be considered without official confirmation of campus-wide accessibility/technical outages. Previous versions of application forms will not be considered and will be denied.
Applicable expenses may include:
Applicable expenses may include:
Applicable expenses may include:
Expense Report
Recipients requesting reimbursement of grant-related expenses should complete the appropriate business services form as soon as possible after returning from travel or incurrence of exclusive non-travel expenses. You must fill out the RSP Expenditure Form and attach your expense report or PR1400 form including all associated receipts (except meals).
Please ensure you follow university procedures regarding travel/business expenses listed on Business Services webpage Travel/Business Expenses.
Brittany Williams - $500
Educational Leadership and Higher Education, Hawaii International Conference on Education (HICE)
Jennifer Lamb - $500
Biology, Sexual Dimorphism in Frogs and Salamanders
Shakour Abuzneid - $500
Computer Science/Information Technology, Ransomware Attacks and Effects on Public Education Institutions and Recommended Safeguards
Roxanne Wilson - $500
Nursing, Posthumous Parenting: A Grounded Theory
Scott Miller - $500
Music, "TAK Performs Miller"
Matthew Davis - $500
Biology, "Biogeography of the Three-barbeled Catfishes (Heptapteriade:Rhamdia) Across Middle America"
Monica Garcia-Perez - $500
Economics, "Presenter, Organizer, and Discussant 2019 Southern Economics Association"
Junghack Kim - $500
Master of Public Administration, "Does School District Board Type Matter for Fiscal Conditions? Examining the Case of Debt Positions in New Jersey School Districts"
Jennifer Lamb - $440
Biology, "Perplexing Polywogs: Using Morphology and Genetics to Identify Ranid Tadpoles(Family Ranidae)"
Mili Mathew - $500
Communication Science & Disorders, "Gestures in persons with Aphasia: What do their hands tell us?"
Ilya Simakov - $500
Theatre & Film Studies, "HOLES, a short narrative film by Ali Emir Tapan and Ilya Simakov"
Brittany Williams - $500
Educational Leadership & Higher Education, "Examining PrEP, PEP, and TasP for HIV Prevention Among Students"
Mikhail Blinnikov - $500
Geography & Planning, “Influence of moisture and temperature regimes on the phytolith assemblage composition of mountain ecosystems of the mid latitudes: a case study from the Altay Mountains"
Susantha Herath - $215
Information Systems, "Managing the Three Pillars of the Economy for Sustainable Growth"
Travel
Abdullah Abu Hussein - $500
Information Systems, “Impact of Virtualization on Cloud Computing Energy Consumption: Empirical Study”
Catharine Bushman - $500
Music, "Opening the Door Wider: Women Composers of Wind Music"
Shannon Sadler - $500
Music, "Performance: New Works by Asian Composers, China-ASEAN New Music Week"
John Sinko - $460
Physics & Astronomy, "Thermal and Spectral Analysis of Microencapsulated Leuco Dyes"
Michele Traub - $500
Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy, "Delivering Effective Behavioral Services Across Communities: Culture as a Motivating Operation"
Abdullah Abu Hussein - $500
Information Systems, “Identifying and Scoring Vulnerability in SCADA Environments”
Abdullah Abu Hussein - $500
Information Systems, “Security and Privacy in the Internet of Medical Things: Taxonomy and Risk Assessment”
Julie Baugnet- $500
Art, “Urban Drawing Project”
Melissa Hanzsek-Brill - $500
Mathematics & Statistics, “A Predictive Model for Students' Sense of Belonging”
Renat Sultanov - $500
Information Systems, “Influence of the pbar-p nuclear interaction on the rate of the low energy muonic reaction”
Janet Tilstra - $500
Communication Sciences & Disorders, “Assessing bilingual Somali/English learners in schools: Survey of current practices”
Brian Wilson - $500
Accounting, “Deep Learners Perceptions of Online Homework”
Previous recipients are showcased in RSP’s annual report.