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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.

SABBATICAL AND SEMESTER LEAVES
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.
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: Does the course have the approval of a program director? What priorities does the course meet for the program and the concentration? How many times will the course be offered? Will the course be a sustainable feature of the program after the duration of this grant? How does the course relate to the college’s General Education requirements? Does the course involve team-teaching or any other substantive innovations? 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: Summary. Write a one-paragraph summary of the course. Narrative. Describe the course, its goals and objectives, its relevance to one or more concentrations. Tell how you will meet your course objectives. Timeline. Clearly indicate when you intend to complete the work you describe in the proposal, and the semester in which the course will first be offered. Indicate whether or not the course will be taught in future semesters. Budget. Provide an itemized budget with a rationale for each item. Letters of Support. Include two: one from your department chair and one from the program director toward which your proposal is intended. Other Materials. Enclose any other material you believe would help us make our decision: for example, a syllabus, an annotated bibliography, an exemplary student paper. Send all materials to Theresa Klauer, CST Program Assistant, klauer@macalester.edu by February 2, 2010
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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