WBL Micro-Grant

The Early College Work-Based Learning Program offers SRU faculty and staff the opportunity to apply for Work-Based Learning Micro-Grants of up to $ 3,000.00 to fund early-college work-based learning opportunities, programming, and engagement that impact their students. During the 2024-2025 school year, the ECWBL program funded 12 micro-grant projects, awarded a total of $26,971.80, and directly impacted 416 students. These projects were designed to support high-impact, early-college work-based learning experiences, focusing on underrepresented, exploratory majors and students under 60 credit hours.

ECWBL anticipates that your activity/event will create a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive environment for all students and add to the experience of participating students. These are opportunities where faculty/staff can incorporate work-based learning opportunities outside of a classroom. Successful applicants will propose an idea that promotes programming that connects first-year and second-year students with the world of professional work (especially focusing on exploratory studies and undeclared major students), as well as support for any work-based learning experience that would be associated with a specific course, within a declared major, and part of a campus organization or club. These events/activities might include informational interviews, job shadows, shorter-term work-based experiences, and programmatic engagement with SRU alumni in the world of work. ECWBL Micro-Grants could fund the following, but are not limited to: 

• Trips to the work site
• Networking Event
• Experiential Learning Activity – working/volunteering onsite alongside industry professionals
• Workshop
• Attending Conferences
• Other event/activity that will engage students in learning and discussion

Faculty/staff will be asked to complete a proposal to request funds, which includes learning outcomes and student reflection. Each submitted proposal should incorporate a clear understanding of how the funds will enhance the proposal, have educational goals and learning outcomes and an assessment of the student’s work-based learning outcomes. If you plan to incorporate continuous reflections throughout the rest of the semester, please let us know and the dates these results will be submitted.

Access the work-based learning micro-grant guidelines/instructions and application.