Faculty Development Committee
The Committee on Faculty Development is concerned with any issue that relates to the professional growth of the Faculty. It seeks to promote scholarship and research by members of the Faculty, to encourage the development of Faculty members as teachers, and to foster the development of the Faculty's sense of itself as a professional academic body. In meeting this responsibility, the committee administers and supervises the following programs: (1) summer study grants (see Summer Study Grants), (2) collaborative student- Faculty research grants, and (3) grants for students attending professional meetings. The committee also reviews sabbatical leave proposals as well as Stodghill Research Professorship proposals and makes recommendations to the Dean. In addition, the committee sponsors Friday Faculty Hours for the informal sharing of research and other interests and concerns of the Faculty throughout the year.
a. The committee will consist of nine members, three from each division. Each academic division will, at its April meeting, elect a representative to serve a three-year term. Division chairs shall take care to ensure that at least one of the divisional representatives shall be a tenured member of the Faculty. A simple majority of the members of each division shall constitute a quorum for divisional elections. One third of the committee will be elected each year. Any tenured or tenure-track full-time employee of the College having Faculty rank, except continuing or incoming Division Chairs, may serve as a representative on the Committee on Faculty Development, however the President of the Faculty, continuing members of the Committee on Curriculum and Academic Standards, continuing or newly elected members of the Tenure and Reappointment Committee, the Off-Campus Programs Committee, and Faculty on sabbatical or serving as a Faculty director abroad in the upcoming academic year will not be listed on the ballot. Additionally, the incoming appointed chairs of the General Education and Assessment Committees will not be listed on the ballot. Members may be re-elected.
b. The incoming Committee on Faculty Development shall elect its chair for the following academic year immediately after its membership is determined in the spring.
c. The members of the Committee on Faculty Development shall not hold any other Faculty elected position. A new election for any position vacated will be held in the normal fashion.
