Criteria for Applying for  Faculty Development Grants

• Monies from the Faculty Development Grants Fund are allotted for the fiscal year (July 1-June 30).
• Individual faculty awards will be made as the formal typed and emailed applications are processed.
• NO HARD COPIES PLEASE.
• The deliberation (voting) process of the committee is typically two weeks. Please plan accordingly.
• All check requests must be made before June 15 to the Academic Vice-President’s Office, or awardees will not receive their grant money.

Eligibility:
All who have full-time faculty status or have a permanent part-time faculty appointment in the graduate or  undergraduate on-campus curriculum, and have submitted final reports for grants in the previous two years are eligible. 

Faculty who have dual faculty/administration status may apply for FD money that applies directly to their academic scholarship and/or classroom teaching.  

Each grant recipient is limited to one award (a $2000, $1000, or $500 grant) per fiscal year (July 1--June 30).

Faculty members may apply for an individual grant to be used in conjunction with a school/department grant. 

Faculty who receive a $100 mini-grant may receive an additional grant award during the same fiscal year.

Examples of categories eligible for funding.

Projects and activities eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

• attending conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and seminars pertaining to either one’s teaching areas or scholarship;
• presenting at conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and seminars;
• enrolling in courses which directly relate to one’s teaching or scholarship;
• bringing in resource persons for on-site professional development;
• activities fostering joint faculty-student scholarship;
• activities leading to enhanced instructional skills;
• conducting research directly related to one’s scholarship or teaching;
• purchasing materials and other resources to enable the development of new curricular materials or improve existing courses;
• professional excursions to museums, exhibits, historical centers, historical sites, and theatre productions

Examples of categories not eligible for funding.
Categories ordinarily excluded include:

• stipends;
• sabbatical (note: You may still be eligible for money if you are presenting original research while on sabbatical.)
• support for work toward an advanced degree;
• support for professional licensure or recertification of professional licensure;
• professional development that is initiated or mandated by the university, school, or department administration
• support to students or to Viterbo employees who have exclusive Staff or Administration status

International Grants:

Five Faculty Development grants of up to $2000 will be granted for scholarly research and artistic, curricular, and instructional projects and activities outside of the continental United States which contribute to excellence in teaching and further professional development. These International Grant awards will be for a two-year period.

Faculty members who receive a $2000 grant during one year will not be eligible for any grant monies the following year, unless the faculty member applies for funds to share original scholarly work with the academic community. Those faculty will be eligible for a $1000 grant. Note: This work must be original scholarly research and cannot be the same work funded the previous year. That faculty member will then NOT be eligible for a $1000 grant for one year.

Funding of two consecutive $1000 grants is at the discretion of the FD committee. 

Individual faculty awards will be judged upon the following criteria:

• The presentation of original research or a creative production at a conference, workshop, or seminar.
• The chairing of a panel at a professional conference, workshop, or seminar.
• The number of faculty and students directly affected by the grant proposal.
• Quality of the proposal: clearly stated measurable outcomes; clearly stated method for achieving each outcome; carefully formulated plan for evaluating whether each outcome has been accomplished.  Faculty who apply for excursions to museums, historical sites or centers, and theatre productions should state in the proposal the name of the site, the names of the individuals with whom they will meet and confer, and names of other contacts (groups, associations, classes) with whom they will meet and confer.
• Likelihood of integrating new learning into current or new course offerings.
• Significance of the project to the faculty member, to the institution, and/or to the wider academic community.
• Likelihood of success via performance, exhibition, publication, or some other form of peer or public review.

School/Department awards will be judged upon the following criteria:

• The grant applications will be for a maximum of $2000.  An individual faculty member may make a separate FD application in conjunction with the school/department application.
• The significance of the project to the school/department, to the institution, to the wider academic/practice community, and to the mission statement of Viterbo University.
• Applications will include clear measurable outcomes expected of the proposed activity.  These outcomes must be consistent with the Viterbo University Mission Statement and Statements of Purposes.
• The school/department grant will be competitive in nature--one grant will be awarded per fiscal year.
• The Faculty Development Committee will take applications for the project from the school/department with a deadline of the second Friday in October.  The project must then be completed before the end of the fiscal year, June 30.
• The Faculty Development Committee will award the grant to the school/department after a review of all the applications.
• A report of the completed project must be submitted to the Faculty Development Coordinator within one month of the completion of the project.
• Any school/department that receives the school/department grant will not be eligible for another school/department grant for three years.
• A FD Committee member who will be a participant in a Department/School grant will recuse himself/herself from considering the applications.