The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program for students interested in academic careers in selected fields - Director Peter Rachleff, Professor of History.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.