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Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012

Faculty: It's Time to Apply for a Provost's Incentive Grant

The Provost’s Incentive Grants for Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creativity are offered through the Academic Affairs Office to provide tenured and tenure-track faculty members with funds to assist with travel, purchase of materials, conference fees, and other support for scholarly, research, or creative activities.

Selection Criteria
A selection committee composed of representatives from the four schools reads and evaluates all properly completed applications. Applications are rated on the following criteria:

  1. Specific ways the applicant’s professional development will benefit from the ability to do this research or activity. Likelihood that the project will result in refereed publications, juried exhibits or invitational solo showings, or presentations at professional conferences. Likelihood that the scholarship will develop new perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to subsequent professional development and scholarship (60 percent of rating).
     
  2. Potential the experience has to enhance the applicant’s teaching (20 percent).
     
  3. Potential contribution of the applicant’s project to his or her service to department, school, and/or Buffalo State College (20 percent).

Eligibility
All full-time Buffalo State College tenured and tenure-track faculty members are eligible.

Deadline
The application deadline is 4:00 p.m. Friday, February 24. Awards will be made in late March.

Questions
Please contact Cara Angie, ext. 3841, with questions.

More information is available on the Faculty Development website.

Submitted by: Cara L. Angie
Also appeared:
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