Faculty development resources
- Award Process (PDF)
- Cat I Budget Form (Excel document)
- Cat II Budget Form (Excel document)
- Cat III Budget Form (Excel document)
- Forms (Word document)
What is faculty development?
Article 22 from the ATF Collective Bargaining Agreement
Section 1. The purpose of the Faculty Development Committee is to provide a peer review process for the allocation of funds for scholarly and creative faculty activities. Scholarly and creative activities are assigned duties/responsibilities of faculty members and are used as measures of faculty performance for awarding or merit, promotion and tenure (see Articles 7 and 8).
Section 2. The Committee shall consist of faculty representatives from all divisions. Divisions that have twenty members are entitled to two (2) representatives. Ex-officio members of the Committee will include the Provost and the Vice President for University Advancement or their designees.
Section 3. Each Division will elect at their first Fall Quarter divisional meeting a representative or representatives. Members of the Committee will serve three (3) year terms. One third of the Committee will be elected each year.
Section 4. The Faculty Development Committee Chair will be elected by the Committee from those members who are serving the second of a three-year term. Ex-officio members are not eligible for the position of Committee Chair.
Section 5. The responsibilities of the Committee include:
A. The allocation of resources for:
Scholarly and creative activities including:
- Travel for participation in professional meetings o Research/Professional enhancement experiences including equipment (Including related/justified travel.)
- Project grants
Reassignment of duties for research and/or scholarly activities, or for university service.
- Identification and consolidation of any additional funding sources
B. Identification and consolidation of any additional funding sources.
Section 6. Funding Level
- There shall be two separate funds for Faculty Development:
- Type 1: Scholarly and Creative Activities - (listed above in Section 5.A.1. of this Article)
- Type 2: Reassignment of Duties - (listed above in section 5.A.2 of this Article)
- The University shall devote $112,000 each academic year to Type 1 funding.
- The University shall devote $140,000 over the 2003-05 biennium to Type 2 funding. These funds shall be allocated as follows: $40,000 in 2003-04, and $100,000 in 2004-05.
- Money from each fund type not allocated in the academic year in which it is budgeted shall rollover to be allocated for the same type of funding award in the following academic year.
Section 7. Allocation of Funds
A. The Faculty Development Committee shall approve all applications for reassignment of duties that do not require additional funding and have been endorsed by the applicant’s Division.
B. Consultation will occur between the WOUFT, the University and the faculty in the establishment of guidelines for the allocation of the faculty development monies described in Section 6 above in this Article, and provide these guidelines to the Faculty Development Committee by February 13, 2004. The Faculty Development Committee shall follow these guidelines in deciding which applications for Faculty Development funding will be approved.
Section 8. The University will provide training in the grant writing process through the Teaching Research Division and the Center for Teaching and Learning.