<p> Professional Development Grant Application 2017 Please use this template for your proposal.</p><p>Name:</p><p>Department: </p><p>Title of Project:</p><p>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</p><p>Please check here to indicate that your department chair has reviewed and approved this proposal.</p><p>Please check here if this is your first time applying for a professional development grant.</p><p>Use of funds (check all that apply): Stipend Expenses Student researcher stipend Release time (see below for additional information needed)</p><p>Brief Summary of Project (up to 50 words)</p><p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>Please submit proposal and appendices electronically to Eileen McMahon McQuade ([email protected]) by Nov 1st.</p>