Purchase College
Faculty Support Awards: Fall 2008 and Spring 2009

Fall 2008 application deadline: Nov. 15, 2008
Spring 2009 application deadline: March 15, 2009

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that the College has reserved funds to support faculty research, academic travel and conference presentations, artistic endeavor, or other comparable professional activity. The Purchase College Foundation, through the President’s Club, the Annual Fund, and gifts from donors, makes these awards possible. As was the case last year, additional funds will be available from the generous capital campaign gift of Eugene and Emily Grant.

Faculty Support Award Guidelines

1. The goal of these awards is to encourage faculty in their professional endeavors and to further their own and the College’s mission and reputation. Faculty members are encouraged to seek individual and institutional funding outside the College, but it is recognized that such sources and State funding require supplementation. Given the limits of both State and outside funding, we are intensely grateful to the College’s generous friends.
    
2. To allow as many grants as possible, the maximum amount for each 2008–09 applicant will be $1000 for junior faculty and $700 for senior faculty. Awards may also be for smaller sums, as appropriate to the project. More than one project may be included in one application, but the stated limits will apply to each applicant, not to each individual project.
    
3. This award period covers expenses incurred from September 1, 2008 to August 31, 2009.
    
4. Each application is peer reviewed by the Faculty Professional Standards and Awards Committee, whose members deserve our thanks for their dedicated service. The committee’s recommendations are then reviewed by the provost. Faculty who do not have a current vita and annual faculty activity report on file, as required by SUNY policy, will not be granted funds. Similarly, applicants who have received previous funding but have not submitted to the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs a satisfactory report on its use and progress towards completion of the project will be deemed ineligible.
    
5. Application forms (available here: Word | RTF) should be submitted electronically, as an attached file, to your dean. Deans should:
   
   • verify the applicant’s eligibility and status (part-time, junior, or senior faculty)
   • indicate their support in the space allotted on the application form
   • send the amended application, as an attached file, to Els van den Bosch in the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs.

Please do not submit incomplete applications, as they will be returned. Applications are invited from tenured or tenure-track full-time faculty members as well as part-time faculty who have served half-time for at least three consecutive years. Please note that faculty members who apply for the Fall 2008 round of faculty support awards cannot submit applications for the Spring 2009 round.

Updated Aug. 26, 2008