Faculty Development Support Grants are awarded to individual faculty for the purposes listed below and are subject to the dollar maximums indicated. Applicants must secure approval by submitting application forms before the review deadline.

1. Improvement of Instructional Activity:
   Awarded funds may be used to support attendance at workshops, conferences, other institutions of higher education, or other locations for the purpose of:
   1. Observing new teaching methods for a specific subject.
   2. Developing evaluation tools, new teaching techniques, or delivery systems, or other non-equipment, physical components of instruction.


2. Improvement of Course Content:
   Awarded funds may be used to obtain course information that cannot be accessed through normal channels (e.g. mail, Booth Library resources). These non-equipment, non-salary expenditures are intended for:
   1. Acquisition of materials for restructuring an existing course or designing a new course.
   2. Internships, attendance at workshops, conferences, and travel to observe new programs and others currently unavailable at Eastern Illinois University.


3. Dollar Maximums:
   A faculty member can obtain up to $400 in a fiscal year.



4. Expectations:
   Information pertaining to the improvement of instructional activity or course content shall be shared with the campus community(Department, College or University).



5. Selection Process:
   Faculty Development Support Grant applications are collected throughout the fiscal year. They are then evaluated by the Faculty Development Advisory Committee composed of representatives from each college. Responses on the application should be clear and specific. Once proposals are evaluated in terms of the guidelines and prioritized, notification is sent to the applicants. Proposals that receive the highest rankings are then funded. Acceptable, but lower ranked proposals are held for further consideration if funding becomes available later in the year.



6. Application Deadline:
   Noon, Monday January 28, 2008