22.1.1. Effective August 16, 2025, the Employer will provide a minimum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) each academic year for ranked faculty development grants. Effective August 16, 2026, the Employer will provide a minimum of fifty five thousand dollars ($55,000) each academic year for ranked faculty development grants. Effective August 16, 2027, the Employer will provide a minimum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) each academic year for ranked faculty development grants.

22.1.2. Any active faculty member may submit an application for a faculty development grant. These grants are competitive; no faculty is guaranteed an award through one or many applications over one or many grant periods. 

22.1.3. A Faculty Development Grant Committee consisting of five (5) ranked faculty, including at least one (1) faculty member appointed by the Union, will review and approve faculty development grant applications for each semester, including summer. Participation in the Faculty Development Grant Committee will be considered collegewide service. Members of the Committee will recuse themselves from reviewing and approving their own applications. Faculty development grant applications for the Fall 2025 semester may be reviewed and approved retroactively during the Spring 2026 grant cycle.

22.1.3.1. The Committee members are responsible for the administration of the grant program, including but not limited to establishing application criteria, setting grant cycles and deadlines in alignment with Business Office policies which will be shared with the Committee, creating and updating an application form, soliciting applications, communicating with applicants and awardees, establishing assessment criteria and rubrics, and communicating all final award details to Academic Affairs.

22.1.4. At the conclusion of each grant cycle, the Committee will share with all ranked faculty members the names of the awardees and Committee members.

The following ranked faculty are members of the Faculty Development Grant Committee:

Thom Faulders

Lynda Grose

Glen Helfand

Taraneh Hemani

Mathew Kneebone

Faculty may reach out to the committee members for information regarding the grant process.