Faculty Development Opportunities

Below find a list of faculty development opportunities available to the faculty at Wagner College.

Eligibility: Faculty in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Computer Science, Physician Assistant, Nursing, and Archaeology.

Funding: up to $7,000

Application Date: Late spring semester

Purpose: To advance faculty-student scholarship and research.

More Information: Faculty will be sent the RFP mid-spring semester from the Provost’s office.

Eligibility: Tenure-track faculty

Funding: up to $1,750

Application Dates: October 1 (for fall/winter activities) and March 1 (for spring/summer activities)

Purpose: To support faculty efforts to obtain terminal degrees, and attendance and presentations at conferences, short courses, and the like.

More Information: Section VI B “Faculty Aid” of the Faculty Handbook 17th Edition

Eligibility: Tenure-track faculty

Funding: up to $1,750

Application Dates: October 1 (for fall/winter activities) and March 1 (for spring/summer activities)

Purpose: To encourage faculty to engage in intellectual projects and continue to develop professionally.

More Information: Section VI C “Faculty Research” of the Faculty Handbook 17th Edition

Eligibility: Full-time faculty

Funding: up to $10,000

Application Date: Late spring semester

Purpose: To supports faculty research and scholarship in the area of civic engagement, consistent with the Wagner Plan, with a particular emphasis on projects that focus on the development of communities.
More Information: Faculty will be sent the RFP mid-spring semester from the Provost’s office.

Eligibility: Full-time faculty

Funding: up to $5,000

Application Date: Late-spring semester

Purpose: The funding of scholarship by Wagner College faculty in areas directly related to the environment

More Information: Faculty will be sent the RFP mid-spring semester from the Provost’s office.

Eligibility: Full-time Health Science Faculty

Funding: up to $10,000

Application Date: May

Purpose: This grant is for faculty research and/or faculty development in the health sciences at Wagner College. Preference should be given to faculty research projects exploring human grief and loss, as this is a cause very dear to the Donors.

More Information: Eligible faculty will receive an email from the Provost’s office providing more information.

Eligibility: Full-time faculty

Funding: up to $5,000

Application Date: Late spring semester

Purpose: To support faculty working with students on research projects that enhance Wagner’s relationship with its community (broadly-defined)

More Information: Faculty will be sent the RFP mid-spring semester from the Provost’s office.

This is for a Spring 2025 OR Fall 2025 class; applications are due September 13, 2024; but I am happy to receive them earlier too.

See definition of humanities for this grant at the bottom of the email – if you are receiving this email you are eligible, depending on the class you are proposing for this grant 🙂

Attached are the details of the program and application process. (Please let me know if you cannot access the documents, and I will send them in a different format.) Here are the main points:

  • open to (tenured or tenure-track full-time) faculty in the humanities  who are expected to be at the institution beyond 2026
    • This could also be a class that is part of the ILC or FYP, but does not have to be.
  • a NEW or significantly revised class that incorporates civic engagement and includes a community-based project addressing one or more of the following issues: Climate Change, Economic Justice, Education Access, Immigration, Mass Incarceration, Public Health, Race and Inequality, Voter Engagement
  • Encourages voter participation by including one or more of the voting modules
  • the class needs to be taught in the Spring 2025 OR Fall 2025 (awards will be announced in December 2024)
  • there is an award of $4,000 (you have full discretion of how these funds are used e.g., for (your own) faculty support, community partners, community-based projects, conference presentations, course expenses, faculty development workshops, events that bridge the community and classroom, and/or related travel)
  • You must work with a community partner.
    • If you do not have a community partner, I can work with you to find a good fit.
  • Engage in faculty development through consulting with a peer PFL at another institution and pursue other professional activities including presenting at national conferences, publishing articles, and/or organizing symposia
  • Submit the application (3 page-form, CV, one-page personal statement, one-page course proposal, agreement with a community partner) – you do NOT need a syllabus for the application – by Friday, September 13, 2024 to bernadette.ludwig@wagner.edu
    • Attached are applications from our (former) colleagues Eric Dean Wilson, Margarita Sanchez, Emily Barth, Lindsay Sabatino, Sarah Donovan, Ali Arant, Denise Gasalberti, John Esser & Abe Unger, Jessica England, Josh Mullenite, and Katherine Moccia whose PFL applications were accepted and funded (see attached). Humanities applications
  • previous Project Pericles Program Directors are eligible to apply
  • previous PFLs are not eligible to apply

Here is a link to courses that were developed through the support of the program at (Wagner and) other institutions. Please note that those taught prior to 2020 did NOT include a community-based partnership which is a required component of this PFL award.

Definition of “humanities” by the National Endowment that Project Pericles uses:

“The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”
–National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, 1965, as amended

 

If you are interested and/or have questions, please feel free to reach out to Bernadette Ludwig

Eligibility: Adjunct faculty members who have taught at Wagner College for seven or more consecutive years

Funding: up to $1,000

Application Dates: October 1 (for fall/winter activities) and March 1 (for spring/summer activities)

Purpose: To support adjunct faculty professional development.

More Information: Faculty Handbook, Appendix O

Eligibility: Tenure-track faculty teaching in the First Year Program

Funding: None

Application Date: N/A

Purpose: To provide full-time faculty with the opportunity and time for professional development. After teaching a 4-3 load for three years and teaching in the FYP, faculty have no on-campus responsibilities for one semester in the 4th year.

More Information: First-Year Program Guide

Eligibility: Untenured tenure-track faculty, typically in their 3rd or 4th year.

Funding: $3,000-$5,000

Application Date: September

Purpose: To provide funding to allow junior faculty to pursue their scholarly agenda.

More Information: Eligible faculty will receive an email from the Provost’s office providing more information.

Eligibility: Tenure-track faculty after 6 consecutive years of full-time service

Funding: None.

Application Date: October 15

Purpose: The purpose of the sabbatical leave program is to improve teaching and scholarship at the College. Faculty granted sabbatical leaves will use this time in an activity designed to produce research findings or to improve their effectiveness in teaching.

More Information: Section VI A “Sabbatical Leave of Absence” of the Faculty Handbook 17th Edition