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Annual call for grant applications for funding from the Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund

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In accordance with our contract between the UC and the UC-AFT, funding is available to support professional development activities that contribute to pedagogical expertise in the subjects you teach at UCSC. Any Unit 18 Member who will be teaching at least one course during this academic year (2016-17) and the next academic year (2017-18) is eligible to apply. These funds may be used for professional meetings, conferences, workshops, to purchase software, special materials, and more.  Some sample funded activities from 2015-16 include

- attendance at the UC Council of Writing Programs Annual Conference
- participation in the Middlebury Institute's Program for International Development and Social Change
- analysis of gas in the sediments of the Elkhorn Slough: seismic surveys and coring
- attendance at the  International Congress of the Hispanic Association of Humanities, Carlos III de Madrid University
- attendance at the Prague Bass Convention
- Foreign Languages in the Digital Humanities travel grant
- a photovoice project with Syrian Refugee Children
- Supermassive Black Hole Conference travel grant

There are two types of grant opportunities available: Small Grants (requests for less than $750.00) and Large Grants (requests for $750.00 or more). Small grants are approved throughout the academic year on an ongoing basis (i.e., you can apply for small grants any time during the academic year); large grant applications are reviewed once per year in April. The 2017 APPLICATION DEADLINE for large grants is midnight on the first Friday in April, which falls on April 7 this year.

Funding is recommended to the university administration by fellow lecturers on the Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund council. The grants are competitive; the entire fund this year is approximately $40,000.  Guidelines and an application form are attached to this email and are available on the UC-AFT website.

For further information, contact members of the council:

Tony Hoffman, thoffma@ucsc.edu
Annapurna Pandey, adpandey101@gmail.com
Randa Roland, randaro@ucsc.edu
Candace Calsoyas, calsoyas@ucsc.edu

We will be glad to help you understand the grants and the application process.