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Faculty Development Opportunities

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Dates below are Application Deadlines. For more information and application forms, follow the links below.

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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

November 3, 2008

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 $1,500 per year in FTR funds to support professional development activities such as attending conferences, journal subscriptions, acquisition of research materials, professional association dues, etc. Receipts are always required, and must be turned in with the reimbursement form to the Associate Provost's Office. Funds may be carried over for up to one year upon a request and rationale submitted by May 1st.

Nov 3 &
Feb 23

Wallace Grants Travel and Research Grants that support faculty scholarship. Click here for guidelines. Click here for application form.

Nov 3 &
Feb 23

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 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 23, 2009

The Student-Faculty Summer Research Collaboration Program (Keck) provides student and faculty stipends plus support for project expenses and student travel for 10 weeks of collaborative scholarly work in the summer. Application and Guidelines. Projects supported in the past.

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Intellectual Engagement With Other Faculty

February 2008

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 Jan Serie 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 2007-2008 academic year are: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (November 8-10, 2007); Global Feminisms: Are Women’s Rights Human Rights? (January 17–19, 2008); Bollywood (March 6–8, 2008); Mind, Brain, and World: On Embodied Cognition (April 24–26, 2008). 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 Jan Serie 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.

Curriculum and Course Development Opportunities

  

 

March

Urban Faculty Seminar, Summer 2008.
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 Jan Serie.

   
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 Jan Serie to discuss ideas and budgets.

   

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