ARC Grants
Up to a third of our students find it difficult to connect with an intellectual community at Stanford and don’t feel that they can form lifelong academic relationships with their faculty and instructors (Senior Student Survey). Mentoring relationships are essential to students’ intellectual growth and professional opportunities. We want all students to have the best possible experience at Stanford and to maximize the intellectual potential this residential campus offers. ARC grants help facilitate those positive experiences and fulfill our core academic mission.
ARC grants are for all faculty, instructors, and students who want to build productive and meaningful academic relationships for the purposes of enhancing mentoring opportunities, professional development, and co-curricular learning experiences.
The essential requirement for an ARC grant is that the funded activity will foster a space for undergraduate students to interact and develop intellectually and professionally beneficial relationships with their faculty and instructors.
Examples of the types of activities an ARC Grant can fund:
- Small group coffee hours for undergraduates to get to know faculty and instructors outside of courses
- A one-day field trip to an off-campus location related to the students’ and/or faculty and instructors’ academic interests
- A panel of faculty and academic staff around a specific topic open to all undergraduates
- A hands-on, immersive learning experience, such as art, design, spoken word, or outdoor activities with an academic component.
Funded activities are not limited to the examples above; we are always in search of creative ways to connect students to an intellectual community.
ARC Grants are available on a rolling basis and consideration begins with a simple conversation with the ARC Team. We will help as much as possible in order to lighten the organizational load, where we can. For further information or to express an interest in this grant, please fill out the interest form.