Faculty Development Committee

Purpose

The purpose of the Faculty Development Committee is to make recommendations to the Senate concerning the development and implementation of policies and procedures for ongoing faculty development, research and scholarly/professional activities.

Charge

The primary focus of this committee is faculty development. It is concerned with ensuring ongoing attention to resource development and equitable allocation of available funds among individual faculty, and providing activities and opportunity for enhancing the faculty's abilities in teaching, research, scholarship and service to the university and the community. The specific duties of the committee are:

to review and recommend incentives and changes in the faculty development, research and scholarly aims of the university.
to propose an institutional policy on faculty development, research and scholarship.
to propose policies, procedures, and guidelines for applications of available institutionally-funded development activities.
as appropriate, to consider and make recommendations to the vice president for academic affairs on applications for institutionally-funded faculty development funds.
to review and recommend changes in university copyright and patent policy, as set forth in the Faculty Handbook.
to monitor compliance with all applicable regulations concerning the use of human or animal subjects.
to coordinate with the Office of Development and the vice president for academic affairs the solicitation of external funding for faculty development, research, and scholarly activities.
to assist the vice president for academic affairs in planning and implementing campus-wide faculty development activities including, but not limited to, the annual Faculty Retreat and May Workshop.
to submit monthly minutes and recommendations to be voted on by the Senate.
to submit a final annual report and recommendations to be voted on by the Senate.

Nothing in this policy is intended to restrict the designation or contribution of funds for specific purposes. Such funds do not fall within the purview of this committee.

Procedures

Proposals for faculty development funds will be submitted to the committee following the guidelines set forth in the Faculty Handbook (Section 4.13.2.1).
Recommendations/actions of the Faculty Development Committee regarding individual faculty applications for funding will be submitted to the vice president for academic affairs for expediting approval. Any action by the vice president for academic affairs contrary to the recommendations of the committee will be reported in writing to the committee.
Recommendations/actions of the Faculty Development Committee regarding committee policies, procedures and functioning will be forwarded to the Senate.

Chair

Will Ingham, associate professor, Theater Division currently serves as chair of this committee.
wingham@su.edu

Subcommittees

The May Faculty Workshop and Creative Scholarship Day Committees are subcommittees of the Faculty Development Committee. The work of these committees is overseen by the chair of the Faculty Development Committee.

For a detailed list of faculty development programs and application forms, please see the faculty development programs page of the academic affairs site.