Resident and Community Faculty Professional Development Grants
Article 19, Section A
Article 10, Section J, Subd. 4
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Spring Application Deadline: February 26, 2010 Amount for Distribution
The amount available for professional development funds will be based on the current collective bargaining agreement. One-half to two-thirds of the awards will be distributed in the fall and the remaining in the spring.
Timetable:
Jan. 22, 2010 Application from faculty member to appropriate college/school Faculty Issues Committee representative
Feb. 3, 2010 College/school faculty committee award recommendations to appropriate Dean
NOTE: Only those awards recommended are forwarded to the next review level.
Feb. 12, 2010 Deans' Council award recommendations to Provost
Feb. 19, 2010 Provost/Academic Affairs Vice President award recommendations to President
Feb. 26, 2010 Announcement of awards
NOTE: Grant awards may not be re-allocated to projects, presentations, or creative works which are different than the one detailed in the original grant proposal.
Recommendations
If a grant is not funded, the Dean/Executive Director will meet with the faculty member to discuss reasons and possible future proposals. The faculty member may also choose to meet with his/her college/school Faculty Issues Committee representative.
Possible activities
Examples of possible activities include but are not limited to:
- conducting traditional as well as nontraditional research;
- pursuing continued study related to new learning and/or research;
- delivering papers/presentations/artwork at conferences/workshops/festivals;
- attending seminars, workshops, festivals or courses;
- traveling or obtaining materials for continuing study or research; and
- traveling to collections, archives, and data sources for continuing study or research.
Criteria for All Types of Grant Applications
The purposes of professional development grants are to encourage continued scholarly growth and other creative activities and to assist faculty members in enhancing their professional competence in areas related to their work at Metropolitan State University. Grants to community faculty are limited to those community faculty represented by the Inter-faculty Organization, that is, faculty who teach at least one, three-credit course during a fiscal year.
Professional development grant awards will be judged on:
- the professionally recognized quality of the proposed activity (e.g., research, conference, workshop);
- the extent to which it demonstrates scholarship and represents new learning;
- community faculty member's availability for future teaching and the university's anticipated use of that community faculty;
- relationship to the faculty member's present or future work at Metropolitan State University;
- the rank of the faculty (applications from nontenured and tenure-track faculty will receive greater priority).
- the amounts, dates and purposes of past awards received by the faculty member.
Grant Requests for Research
Priority ranking will be considered when reviewing grant requests for research that would have direct relevance to university goals, objectives and strategies.
Additional Criteria for Conference/Workshop/Festival Attendance:
Grants are awarded for many different, valued activities and conference/workshop/festival attendance is only one type of grant allocation. The criteria listed above will be applied to all categories for which grants are awarded. In the case of grant applications for conferences, workshops, or festivals, the following rank ordering will also guide grant allocation.
- Travel to present academic papers and/or artistic works already accepted (regardless of whether or not the person received a PDG during the prior round of grant awards).
- Travel to present academic papers and/or artistic works submitted, but not yet accepted (regardless of whether or not the person received a PDG during the prior round of grant awards).
- Travel to a conference, workshop or festival at which the person is in a formal role (e.g., chairing a panel, serving on a committee meeting at the conference) when the person did not receive a PDG during the prior round of grant awards.
- Travel to a conference, workshop or festival at which the person is in a formal role (e.g., chairing a panel, serving on a committee meeting at the conference) when the person did receive a PDG during the prior round of grant awards.
- Travel to a conference, workshop or festival for professional growth and development when the person did not receive a PDG during the prior round of grant awards.
- Travel to a conference, workshop or festival for professional growth and development when the person did receive a PDG during the prior round of grant awards.
In general, professional development funds will not be awarded to:
- pursue graduate degrees, or
- reimburse faculty for their time.
Reimbursement
All expenditures must be pre-approved. Requests and expense reports for professional development funds must be forwarded to the deans who will forward them to the Office of the Provost/Academic Affairs Vice President. The required forms and detailed information on how to request reimbursement can be found in the online Reference Manual which can be found on the Faculty/Staff Portal.
Professional development grant application for resident faculty and community faculty can be found here.
To contact The Center for Teaching and Learning, call 651-793-1774, or send e-mail to ctl@metrostate.edu