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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.

Handy Forms for Reimbursement

Form for travel expenses

Check requisition

FTR reimbursement form

Travel advance

Sabbatical & Semester Leaves

Sabbatical Leaves

Sabbatical Extensions

Faculty Exchange Program with Carleton

Faculty Travel & Research

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 Programs

Intellectual Engagement with Other Faculty

Faculty Seminars, Colloquia, Institutes & Conferences

Co-mentoring Grants

Department Development Grants

Invite Your Students to Dinner: Tom Leonard Fund

SABBATICAL AND SEMESTER LEAVES
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.
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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