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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
One-stop shopping for Macalester funding opportunities for you and your students. Dates below are Application Deadlines. For more information and application forms, follow the links below.
- Form for travel expenses
- Check requisition
- FTR reimbursement form
- Travel advance
- Sabbatical Leaves
- Sabbatical Extensions
- Faculty Exchange Program with Carleton
- Faculty Travel and Research Funds (FTR)
- Wallace Travel Grants
- Wallace Research Grants
- ACM FaCE Project
Curriculum and Course Development Opportunities
Student-Faculty Collaborations and Summer Research
- Funding available from Mellon, Beltman, Taylor, Ford,
and Keck ProgramsIntellectual Engagement with Other Faculty
- Faculty Seminars, Colloquia, Institutes & Conferences
- Co-mentoring Grants
- Department Development Grants
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October
30, 2009 |
Regular
Sabbatical Leaves for Tenured Faculty: a one semester leave at
full pay or a full year at half pay every seventh year of full-time
employment. Click
here for an application form. |
No
firm deadline |
Junior
Faculty Sabbatical Leaves and Leaves Immediately After the Tenure
Decision: a one semester leave at full pay for faculty who have
successfully completed their third-year or tenure review. This
leave is normally taken in the fourth or seventh year of employment,
respectively. These leaves are worked out with the department
chair in advance of the sabbatical. No formal application is required.
Faculty member and department program chair should consult about
the leave during the faculty member's review year and report the
sabbatical plan to the Provost. |
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| FACULTY TRAVEL AND RESEARCH FUNDS | |
As
Expenses Occur |
Regular
Faculty Travel and Research Funds (FTR): All full-time faculty
receive $1,750 per year in FTR funds to support professional development
activities such as: attending conferences, journal subscriptions,
research materials, professional association dues, etc. Receipts
are always required, and must be turned in with the reimbursement
form to the Academic Programs Office. Funds may be carried over
for up to one year upon request by May 1st. Click
here for FTR form. Click
here FTR for guidelines |
Nov
2 & Feb 22 |
Wallace
Grants Travel and Research Grants that support faculty scholarship.
Click here
for guidelines and Click
here application form. |
Nov
2 & Feb 22 |
The
ACM FaCE program has changed significantly. It is now focused
on Collaboration and Assessment. Click
here for new guidelines and more information. Submit proposals
electronically to Theresa
Klauer. |
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| STIPENDS FOR STUDENT-FACULTY RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS DURING THE SUMMER | |
Stipends
(or FTR contributions) and other funds supporting student-faculty
collaboration on research projects during the summer are available
through numerous funding sources. These programs are summarized
on the College's Student
Research web page. All opportunities, with the exception of
the Keck Program outlined below, are limited to specific disciplines,
and may bear additional restrictions. Faculty considering these
opportunities should contact the director of the program of interest. |
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Spring
Term, See Program for Details |
The
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program for students interested
in academic careers in selected fields -
Director Peter Rachleff, Professor of History. |
Spring
Term, See Program for Details |
The
Beltmann Program for student-faculty collaborative research in
the physical sciences (no stipend provided to the faculty member
in this program). See Tom
Varberg, Chair of Chemistry. |
Spring
Term, See Program for Details |
The
Taylor Fellowship Program - For students interested in shadowing
a health professional for 5 weeks during the summer (no stipend
provided to the faculty member in this program) Director
Elizabeth Jansen. |
February
23, 2010 |
The
Student-Faculty Summer Research Collaboration Program (Keck) provides
student stipends plus support for project expenses and student
travel for 10 weeks of collaborative scholarly work in the summer.
Application and Guidelines. |
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| INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT WITH OTHER FACULTY | |
February
2010 |
ACM
Advisory Board of Deans Faculty Development Grants. Grants of
up to $2,000 to support a meeting, conference or workshop for
ACM faculty members. Most recently, this program has funded classicists,
economists, computer center directors, mathematicians, anthropologists,
Latin Americanists and theater directors. Meetings may focus on
such themes as disciplinary or interdisciplinary pedagogy, course
or curriculum development, or emerging scholarship; or campus-wide
concerns such as the use of information technology in scholarship
and teaching, helping students develop as competent thinkers and
communicators, or the development of institutional structures
that support interdisciplinarity. Interested faculty should contact
Adrienne Christiansen prior to proposal development. |
Please
apply no later than 6 weeks before the seminar you wish to attend |
Midwest
Faculty Seminars: Every year the University of Chicago invites
Macalester faculty to a series of seminars held on their campus.
The Associate Provost's Office will reimburse travel expenses
and meals not provided by the Seminar for up to two faculty to
attend each of these seminars. Housing will be provided by the
University of Chicago. Topics for the 2009-2010 academic year
are: The Human Condition (November 5-7, 2009); The
Science of Morality (January 14-16, 2010); Capitalisms
(February 25-27, 2010); Who Owns Culture? (April 15-17,
2010). Please apply about 6 weeks before the seminar by sending
the registration form (downloadable from the site linked above)
to The Midwest Faculty Seminar Program and notifying Adrienne
Christiansen or Brenda Piatz of your application for institutional
approval. |
Apply
directly to the Collaboration and submit receipts to the Associate
Provost's Office |
The
Collaboration For the Advancement of Teaching and Learning: This
independent organization is an alliance of colleges and universities
that supports and promotes outstanding college teaching through
newsletters and conferences. The Associate Provost's Office will
reimburse the early registration fee to attend The Collaboration
conferences. |
Arrangements
made on a case-by-case basis |
Preparing
Future Faculty: Macalester participates in this program with other
liberal arts colleges and the University of Minnesota to provide
graduate and post-doctoral students an opportunity to work with
liberal arts college professors to learn more about this career
choice. Macalester faculty who serve as mentors receive a supplemental
$300 travel and research grant from the U of MN. If you are interested
in participating, contact the Associate Provost's Office. |
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| INVITE YOUR STUDENTS TO DINNER | |
As
Expenses Occur |
The
Tom Leonard Fund provides endowment income to foster a sense of
community by reimbursing faculty members for expenses incurred
when entertaining students, preferably in faculty homes. Individual
faculty members may be reimbursed for up to $13.00 per person
for expenses for a single event. Reimbursement for departmental
or divisional events must be approved by the Assistant Provost,
Lynn Hertz. Click
here for application form. |
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| CURRICULUM AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES | |
February
2, 2010 |
Mellon
Curricular Pathways Grant offers funds to support the creation
of new courses or the revision of existing courses which will
support and expand the following four interdisciplinary programs
and their concentrations. Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Community
and Global Health, Urban Studies and Global Citizenship. Grants
will consist of faculty stipends along with funds to allow the
development of team teaching, civic engagement, or other substantive
teaching/learning activities.
Criteria for Approval of Courses Because each program has distinct needs in terms of content and direction, each proposal should consider and explicitly address these needs. Proposals must be accompanied by a letter of support from the director of the intended program: Humanitarianism and Human Rights Jim Dawes Community and Global Health Devavani Chatterjea, or Jaine Strauss Urban Studies Dan Trudeau Global Citizenship (Position Open) In addition, because each course will be housed in a department, a letter of support from the department chair must be included. Range of Funding Proposals that include modifications to an existing course in order to meet the needs of a concentration will likely be given no more than $1,000. Total budget per proposal should not exceed $3,000. Expenses may include summer stipends or Faculty Travel and Research funds (up to $1,500). Proposals may also include: books, DVDs, or other course development materials; travel to appropriate conferences, institutions, or field sites; work-study funds so that students may help to arrange activities (trips, films, gatherings); and honoraria for visiting scholars/speakers. Criteria for Funding Proposals that seek to enhance specific programs and their concentrations will be considered. Proposals that relate the concentrations to each other, or that speak to issues that have wide interest across the curriculum will also be considered. The Mellon Curricular Pathways co-directors will take into account the following factors:
Selection Process
Each program will be asked for input. Funding may be adjusted to provide consistency among all awardees. The final decision will be made by grant co-directors Karin Aguilar-San Juan and Dave Lanegran. How to Apply Please include six sections in your proposal in this order:
Send all materials to Theresa
Klauer, CST Program Assistant, klauer@macalester.edu by February
2, 2010
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March |
Urban
Faculty Colloquium, Summer 2010. The seminar will provide a structured opportunity to explore with other Macalester faculty members and community partners some of the teaching philosophies, strategies and practical approaches needed for effective and ethical teaching and learning in the city. We will also provide resources for developing new courses, or modifying existing ones to include an urban component. In the seminar we will reflect on our role as advisors to students in urban learning environments, and we will explore different ways to partner with people and organizations in the Twin Cities community. The seminar is intended to increase faculty comfort and confidence in navigating the Twin Cities as an environment for teaching and learning. Faculty participants are expected to attend all seminar sessions and work on the development of a course or other project. Click here for application. For more information, please contact the Center for Scholarship and Teaching. |
Ongoing |
Funding
is available through the Mellon Grant for faculty reading groups
on topics of academic interest. FTR/stipend support plus funding
for food is available for participants and the reading group convener.
Contact Adrienne Christiansen to discuss ideas and budgets. |
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