CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award Grant

CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Conference on College Composition and Communication
Amount: US $1,000
Last Updated: April 19, 2025

Summary

The CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award, sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, offers $1,000 travel awards to support scholarship among historically underrepresented groups, including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native scholars. Awardees will benefit from mentorship opportunities and may attend the CCCC Annual Convention. If the event is held online, recipients will receive complimentary registration instead of travel funds, ensuring access to professional development and networking.

Overview

The Conference on College Composition and Communication sponsors the Scholars for the Dream Travel Award to encourage scholarship by historically underrepresented groups. This includes Black, Latinx, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander scholars, regardless of citizenship status—persons whose presence and whose contributions are central to the full realization of our professional goals. CCCC offers selected Scholars for the Dream Travel Award winners travel awards of $1,000 each and sponsors a reception for all award winners. Award winners will have the opportunity to work with career mentors who are CCCC members as part of the award. In the event that the CCCC Annual Convention moves to an online-only event with no in-person component, recipients will receive a complimentary registration for the convention in lieu of any travel funds.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. If you are from an eligible group and an emerging scholar, you are eligible to apply.Ten Scholars for the Dream Travel Awards will be first-time presenters at CCCC. Up to ten additional awardees may be selected from CCCC members whose proposals have been accepted to the convention, who have presented at no more than three previous CCCC conventions, and who have not previously received a Scholars for the Dream Travel Award.