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Sanford Faculty Development Award Application

 

2018 Sanford Faculty Development Award Guidelines

Award Categories and Parameters

For the 2018 spring semester, three $1000.00 awards are available from the Sanford Fund to support faculty development in the three following categories. Eligible projects may include any professional developmental or scholarly work requiring substantial effort that will lead to category specific outcomes.

  1. Curricular & Course Development
  • Course creation and design
  • Curriculum design for major, minor degree programs or certificates
  • Collaborative teaching
  • Development of assessment tools for courses and curricula
  1. Grant and extra-mural funding procurement
  • Research, development and writing proposals
  • Travel to grant workshops and/or training
  1. Discipline specific research activities, to include:
  • Materials & supplies – traditional and digital
  • Publication
  • Performance
  • Exhibition
  • Collaborative research

Faculty Eligible to Apply

·  Full time NSU faculty; those holding tenure, or tenure track positions.

·  Faculty willing to devote at least 4 weeks during summer 2018 to the project during which time no other paid professional activity will occur.

Student Research Assistants

·  Qualified students may be employed as research assistants.

·  Students will be paid $10.00 per hour, not to exceed $920.

·  This amount will be deducted from the faculty stipend.

·  Funding of student labor requires prior approval through OIS.

Project Guidelines

·  Projects must involve substantial development or scholarly activity that will lead to category specific outcomes, listed above.

·  Projects must have value to the faculty member's academic profession and to Northern State University.

·  Projects must be within the faculty member's area of expertise as evidenced by his or her professional academic credentials.

·  Faculty must complete the Sanford Faculty Development Application Form. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

·  Previously funded projects are not eligible.

·  Projects must be completed between June 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

·  Examples of research activities appropriate for funding are those defined in the Scholarship and Creative Activity section of the South Dakota Board of Regents Policy (https://www.sdbor.edu/policy/documents/4-38.pdf):

“The product of scholarly activity may take a variety of forms, but it cannot be only for the classroom or take place only in the classroom; it must involve the presentation of one's ideas and works to one's professional peers or the learned public for debate and judgment. Such presentations may occur in a variety of settings reflective of the professional practices of each discipline, but to be worthy of recognition it is expected at a minimum that the presentation be subject to peer review or comparable professional scrutiny and that it be made in a forum appropriate for gaining extramural recognition for ongoing scholarly accomplishment and leadership.

The recognition and importance of the different forms and presentations of scholarship will vary depending upon the mission of the university, the role of a discipline within the university's functions and the individual faculty unit member's assignment. Thus, although scholarship and creative activity includes the following and similar activities, not all of these need be recognized or judged to be important or sufficient for each faculty unit member:

• Publication of the results of research, scholarship, and creative endeavor in peer reviewed scholarly journals and books, textbooks, chapters in professional books, abstracts, book reviews or other peer reviewed fora in print or other media;
• Publication of peer reviewed poems, novels, plays, musical compositions or other creative works in print or other media;
• Exhibition of works of art;
• Musical performance;
• Delivery of invited lectures, papers, speeches, or presentations at other universities, professional meetings, conventions, and conferences;
• Creative application of existing technologies;
• Patents on inventions;
• Application for patents;
• Application for research or development grants;
• National recognition as an expert in a field related to the faculty unit member's professional responsibilities;
• Contribution as a co-author or co-presenter of one's own research results to joint research projects involving other professionals;
• Participation as an expert reviewer on government or private research grant review panels or site visits, participation in accreditation reviews and comparable professional activity.” (taken from SD BOR Policy Manual, November 2017)

Funding Procedures

·  The stipend will be treated as a regular salary payment subject to the normal payroll deductions.

·  Payment to faculty will be made in two equal installments, one at the end of June 2018 and the second at the end of August 2018.

·  Sanford Faculty Development Funds may be used for faculty time, materials or equipment.

·  Students will be required to submit completed and approved time cards for payment.

Reporting Requirements

·  The faculty member will present the results of the project activity to the NSU academic community during the fall faculty development program in the session following completion of the project (August 2019).

·  A final written report, describing the project accomplishments must be filed with the OIS Office by June 30, 2019. A manuscript ready for publication would fulfill this requirement.

·  The scholarly work produced as a result of this funding must be submitted to the OIS office, in final form. A copy of this work will be forwarded to the Northern State University library. All scholarly work must be documented and submitted using the digital format most appropriate to the discipline.

Application Process

·  Announcement of the funding opportunity and application form (see attached) will be disseminated electronically to all faculty members in March 2018.

Deadlines

·  Faculty members applying for funding must submit an electronic copy of the completed application to the Division Dean by Monday, April 2, 2018.  Division Deans will rank applications.

·  Applications which have been vetted and approved by the Division Deans will be forwarded to the OIS office no later than Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

·  All applications will be reviewed by the OIS Advisory Committee. The committee will submit recommendations to the Vice President for Academic Affairs by Friday, April 20, 2018.

·  Final decisions will be made by the NSU President, Provost, and the President & CEO of the NSU Foundation.

·  Faculty will be notified of the award by April 30, 2018.  Award Recipients must
wait three years before resubmitting an application for funding from the Sanford Faculty Development Award.