Each month Walden University’s Research Center features funding opportunities and provides links to more information. Many of these may not apply to this year’s studies, but may be a better fit in later years of your academic career. Student researchers may use the form located at to request a personal grant search.

The Canadian Embassy’s Graduate Student Fellowship Program
The Graduate Student Fellowship Program promotes research that contributes to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada, its relationship with the United States, and its international affairs. The grant is designed to give doctoral students an opportunity to conduct part of their research in Canada. Efforts to integrate the research findings into the applicant's conference presentations are welcomed.

This program is intended for doctoral students at accredited U.S. and Canadian four-year colleges and universities whose dissertations are related in particular to areas which have policy relevance for Canada and Canada-U.S. relations. Projects that include collaboration with researchers at Canadian institutions are strongly encouraged.

Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and should have completed all doctoral requirements except the dissertation when they apply for a grant. 

Educause’s Jane N. Ryland Fellowship Program 
This EDUCAUSE grant program was established to expand opportunities for information technology professionals to attend EDUCAUSE events, thus helping to build future leaders. Fellowships recognize a combination of past achievement, personal and institutional commitment, potential benefit, and financial need.

Awards are made on an annual basis, in amounts that will substantially or fully meet the costs of attending one EDUCAUSE educational event that aligns with the professional needs of the applicant and the strategic directions of his or her institution.

The program bears the name of Jane N. Ryland who, as president of CAUSE from 1986 to 1998, recognized the importance of educational programs to support and develop information technology professionals throughout higher education.

More Information
Visit the Research Center’s Grants, Fellowships, and Funding Opportunities page or email the research coordinator at grants@waldenu.edu.

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