Faculty Development Committee
Minutes of the 24 September meeting
Present: Shelly Dickinson, Jeanine Grenberg, Marty Hodel, Kris MacPherson, Arnie Ostebee, David Schodt, and BIll Thornton. Guest: Charles Wilson
A. The minutes of the September 10 meeting were edited and approved as corrected.
B. Charles Wilson asked whether the committee was willing to get involved in the vetting of applicants for NEH Summer Stipends and then recommended two faculty to represent St. Olaf College in the grants competition. Currently this process is done by the Associate Dean of the Humanities and it was discussed whetehr this should fall under the umbrella of Faculty Development. The consensus of the group was that it should and the FDC will take on this activity, most likely a part of the review of FDC Summer gGrants.
Criteria and timing of the granting process will be further discussed at the October 29 meeting. Charles will join in that discussion and will provide the current NEH criteria prior to or at that meeing.
C. David Schodt announced a new granting opportunity from ACM, the Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) project, and asked whether this committee would be willing/able to read proposals and make recommendations to the Dean. The names of four individuals from each ACM institution may be forwarded for consideration. It was agreed that CILA would be responsible for advertising this program and that the deadline for proposals would be noon on October 29 to coincide with the deadline for Released Time grants.
Links to both the ACM web page and the NEH web page describing these funding opportunities will be added to the FDC web page.
D. Jeanine stated that the workshop on the writing of Released Time Grrants will take place twice, once on October 4 and once on October 5. Mark Allister, Kim Kandl, Karen Cherewatuk and Paul Jackson have agreed to present.
Based on the minutes of November 21, 2003, it was agreed that a sentence reading "NOTE: These awards are rarely given to faculty in their first year" will be added to the criteria for Released Time Grants. This will also be mentioned by Jeanine in the workshop.
E. Shelly Dickinson reported that Pam Dresow has offered to take on the printing of promotional materials for the Mellby Lectures, including boththe brochures and posters. She will work with Pam this fall and BIll willpickup the torch for the spring Mellby lecture.
F. Jeanine will serve as chair at the October 8 meeting as Kris will not be able to attend. Guidelines for Released Time Grants will be discussed, so the committee is ready for review of those proposals at the end of the month. A post-mortem of the Grant Writing workshop will also take place.
Respectfully submitted,
Shelly Dickinson, Recorder
