Faculty Development Committee
Annual Report for 2004-05
Kris MacPherson, Chair
Overview
The Faculty Development Committee (FDC) had a very productive year. In addition to completing our normal duties of reviewing proposals for Realeased Time, Summer Scholarly Activity and Teaching/Curriculum grants and nominations for the Mellby lecture series and sponsoring the two Mellby lectures organized by the previous year's committee and a grant writing workshop, we also established internal criteria for and reviewed proposals for the NEH Summer Stipends and the ACM/GLCA FaCE grants, revamped all the guidelines for our grants (many twice over the year), and sponsored the Spring Symposium on Open Access Publishing.
FDC Publicity/Webpage
Faculty Development opportunities were once again made available through a brochure distributed to all faculty, by email and through a webpage kept by Phyllis Stuckmeyer:
http://www.stolaf.edu/committees/facdev/index.html
Committee Membership
In addition to the five voting committee members (Jeanine Grenberg, Marty Hodel, Bill Thornton, Shelly Dickinson and Kris MacPherson), Arnie Ostebee (Assoicate Provost), David Schodt (CILA) and Paddy Dale (Govt/Foundation Relations) met with the committee. In addition, one committee member recused herself from the summer grant and NEH proposal considerations, so Charles Wilson, Associate Dean for the Humanities, sat in with us to take her place. Shelly Dickinson was with us the first half of the year; Doug Buessman took her place for the second half (and to finish out her term).
Committee Structure
At the first meeting, committee members took responsibility for organizing different sections of the work of the committee: the brochure and grant writing workshop, each of the Mellby Lectures, organization of the minutes, and the Spring Symposium. The chair continued to organize agendas and send out committee email to the faculty, and to track web page changes, and all participated in the review of proposals. This made the work load more manageable for each of us.
Grant-Writing Workshop
Two workshops were offered in early October to assist faculty with the grant writing process. Karen Cherewatuk, Paul Jackson, Mark Allister and Kim Kandle offered excellent advice. Paddy Dale also spoke on the assistance available from the Government Foundations Office. Although excellent, the workshops were lighly attended. Next year's committee may want to either start advertising them earlier or decide whether to offer the information in another way.
Proposals Funded
Time Released Grants:
Kathy Tegtemeyer Pak
Mary Trull
Summer Scholarly and Artistic Activity Grants:
Mary Griep, Art
Steven Hahn, History
Chuck Huff, Psychology
Gary Muir, Psychology
Amelia Taylor, MSCS
Kris Thallhammer, Political Science
Charles Umbanhowar, Biology
Curriculum Development Grants:
Jan Allister, English
Sheryl Breen, Political Science
Mary Carlsen, Family and Social Service
Naurine Lennox, family and Social Service
Paul Robak, MSCS
Mellby Lectures
Paul Humke and Jolene Barjasteh gave the lectures this year. Steve Reese and Gary Gissleman were chosen for next year.
Stipend Issue
The committee spent a great deal of time exploring and debating the issue of stipends for summer work. We decided to offer a full stipend of $2000 for each SSA grant funded, without restriction, and up to $2000 expenses. However, there were many applicants, which meant we had no leeway for stretching funds, and the length of commitment for projects varied. The committee revised the stipend guidelines for next year: Awards for SSA grants are a maximum of $4000 of which up to $2000 may be a stipend @ $50/day and the rest expenses, or a grant for expenses up to a maximum of $4000. TCD stipends will be $50/day for participants and $100 for project leaders, not to exceed a maximum of $2000/person or $2500/group during the academic year or $4000 for the summer. Food allowances were changed to a maximum of $40 a day.
Spring Symposium
The Faculty Development Committee invited the Bridge Consortium (St. Olaf and Carleton Libraries), CILA and Carleton's LTC to cosponsor and organize a dual college symposium on the future of scholarly publishing and the open access movement. Kathy Tezla of the Carleton Library designed a web page (http://www.carleton.edu/campus/library/collections/ScholPubDebate/). Jim Neal, Director of Libraries at Columbia University and Julia Blixrud of SPARC spoke at a dinner gathering to a group of 70 ST. Olaf and Carleton faculty and library staff members. During the following week the LTC and CILA hosted a panel consisting of Sam Demas (Carleton College Librarian), Gary Muir (St. Olaf Psychology) and Nelson Christensen (Carleton Physics) speaking about the issue as it affects our campuses and them as individuals. Both lunches were well attended.