February 16, 2026

Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Spring 2026 Provost Professional Conference Support Funds. Applications can be submitted through InfoReady and are due by 11:59pm on Friday, March 6.

This program will provide up to $2,000 per tenured or tenure-track Albuquerque campus faculty member for the purpose of travel to present a paper or results at a professional conference, or to attend an exhibition or performance of their own creative work. Funding is limited to one award per faculty member per year. Recipients who received funding in Fall 2025 are not eligible to receive funding in Spring 2026, as funding is limited to one award per faculty member per year.

We expect applicants to have exhausted all other avenues of funding support prior to applying for Provost professional conference support funds.

Priority will be given to Assistant Professors for whom establishing scholarly networks is most critical. However, requests for funds will be accepted from faculty in all tenure and tenure-track ranks. Please note that funds are limited this round, and applications are competitive. Thus, we may not be able to accommodate funding for all applications received.

There are minimum eligibility requirements. Recipients must:

• Demonstrate that cost of planned travel exceeds all other sources of funding, including research grants, start-up funds, discretionary funds, and existing departmental and college travel funds
• Be current tenure track or tenured Albuquerque campus faculty
• Be using the funds to present a scholarly paper or creative work, or otherwise systematically share results of their scholarly investigations or creative works at a professional conference. This program does not support general conference attendance
• Secure a sign-off from a department chair or dean authorizing the travel and attesting to the need for supplemental funding for the proposed trip. This can be in the form of an email from your chair, or you may utilize the attached template (which can also be found on our webpage linked below). Your chair’s sign off will be required in order to submit your application. Note: The provost travel funds can be used to augment existing funds, and funding from this program is intended to be the last dollar
• Travel must otherwise meet all applicable UNM policies, and recipients must provide a college or departmental index to which the provided funds will be transferred

For more information, please visit https://provost.unm.edu/faculty-affairs/funding-support.html  or email provost@unm.edu with additional questions.