Professional Development Grant Application 2017

Professional Development Grant Application 2017 Please use this template for your proposal.

Department:

Title of Project:

Type of Grant. See the faculty development page on the provost’s web site for descriptions. Select one: research artistic production faculty/student research curricular grant-writing

Please check here to indicate that your department chair has reviewed and approved this proposal.

Please check here if this is your first time applying for a professional development grant.

Use of funds (check all that apply): Stipend Expenses Student researcher stipend Release time (see below for additional information needed)

Brief Summary of Project (up to 50 words)

Description of Goals and a Time-line for Project Completion. Please identify specific outcomes of the project and provide appropriate background. (up to 1000 words).

Rationale for release time. Explain why the requested teaching reduction is appropriate for the proposed project, and why more intensive work over a semester is important (compared to the normal pace of regular scholarship expected of all faculty). Include a work plan that provides evidence of your ability to complete the proposed project during the semester in which the release time is taken.

Appendices  Curriculum vitae;  Itemized budget (if grant is to be used for purposes other than a single stipend to you or a student researcher);  If requesting release time, a load report from the department chair accounting for a reduction to your load. (Spreadsheet for the load report available from Patti Hunter);  A description of previous professional development or sabbatical funding grant projects from the last 5 years and a summary of the scholarly products (i.e., publications, presentations, performances, etc.) that resulted from each.

Please submit proposal and appendices electronically to Eileen McMahon McQuade ([email protected]) by Nov 1st.