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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
31, 2012 |
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): Tenure and Tenure Track faculty, pre/post doctoral fellows, adjunct professors (prorated by FTE) and MSFEO faculty (50%)
receive $1,750 per year in FTR funds; full-time non tenure track faculty receive $1,250 per year; part-time non tenure track faculty are eligible for FTR after the first year of employment (prorated by FTE). FTR funds help 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 5 & Feb 18 |
Wallace
Grants Travel and Scholarly Activities Grants that support faculty scholarship.
Click
here for guidelines and Click
here application form. Applications submitted in November will be considered for the current academic year. Applications submitted in February will be considered for next academic year. |
Nov
5 & Feb 18 |
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
18, 2013 |
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
2013 |
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 2012-2013 academic
year are: Disgrace (Nov. 8-11, 2012); Mind, Brair, and World: on Embodied Cognition (Jan. 10-12, 2013); Islam in/and the West (February 21-23, 2013); Climate Change Across the Disciplines (April 18-20, 2013). Please apply about 6 weeks before the seminar. To register please contact Brenda Piatz or Kendrick Brown for the registration form. |
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 | |
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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