Subject: Governance and Organization

Policy:Funding for Faculty Development Activities

Revised: Spring 2024

Effective date: Spring 2022

Review date: Spring 2027

Responsible Party: Level I: Faculty Council; Level II: Faculty President 

 

Introduction and Purpose:

To guide Faculty Council in making recommendations for the disbursement of funds available for faculty development. The Faculty Development Funding Application is to be used for all funding requests. Incomplete or unreadable applications or failure to follow the procedure will result in the return of the application without a review by Faculty Council.

 

Policy:

  1. The Dean of the College of Nursing establishes the budget available for faculty development activities and notifies Faculty Council of the amount established for disbursement by September 1st. 
  2. Funds will be allocated across three categories:
    1. Category I: Presentation of research or scholarly activity
    2. Category II: Attendance at professional conferences
    3. Category III: Educational programs for the faculty as a whole
  1. Faculty development activities not included under this policy include:
    1. Faculty/committee meetings or teaching obligations that require travel.
    2. Dean's travel.
    3. Faculty development travel paid by Campus Director's discretionary funds.
    4. Faculty trips requested by the Administration.
    5. Formal education, e.g., masters or doctoral courses.
  1. Faculty Development funding requests can be made by individuals or committees and can only be requested for the current fiscal year (July 1- June 30).
  2. The Faculty Development Funding Application is to be used for all funding requests. Incomplete or illegible applications or failure to follow the procedure will result in the return of the application without a review by the Faculty Council.
  3. Within one fiscal year (July 1 - June 30) an individual faculty member may not receive faculty development funding more than once.
  4. By May 1, funds that have not been allocated or funds that have been returned to the pool will be returned to the Dean of the College of Nursing.

 

 Procedures:

Faculty Responsibilities

  1. The faculty identifies a conference/training event that falls within the funding cycle: July 1st to June 30th of that academic year. Conferences/training events which are after the June 30th deadline must be submitted for consideration the following year.
  2. The applicant completes the Faculty Development Funding Application and obtains the signature of the Campus Director.
  3. Via DocuSign the completed and signed application is sent to Faculty Council and the Faculty President.
  4. If funding is awarded, faculty must complete the required official MSU paperwork both before and after travel is completed. The required forms and documentation are detailed on the MRJCON website, under “Resources for Faculty and Staff”.
  5. A summary report of the faculty development activity must be submitted to the Faculty Council via e-mail, within 20 working days of returning from the faculty development activity.
  6. Annually document on MSU platform activities approved with Faculty Development Funds in Activity Insight.

 

Faculty Council Responsibilities

  1. A call for Faculty Development Funding Applications is made, via e-mail to all faculty, at least twice each academic year.
  2. Faculty Development Funding Applications are reviewed in a timely fashion and are assigned a numerical score based on a rating schema. The Faculty Development Funding Applications will then be prioritized according to the number of points earned on the rating schema.
  3. Based on the available pool of funds for that funding cycle, Faculty Council will recommend complete funding of the applications that garnered the most points.
  4. Faculty Council submits the funding recommendations to the Dean.
  5. After the Dean approves and finalizes the funding recommendations, the chairperson notifies the faculty member of the final funding allocation.
  6. Faculty Council will maintain a copy of each summary report for a period for three (3) years.