Travel Grants
Travel grants are given to assist tenured, tenure track, and clinical continuing faculty traveling to recognized conferences, workshops, and meetings of professional development or professional affiliations related to LMU’s teaching mission. The travel
- must be relevant for or based on the applicant’s own teaching at LMU,
- must be relevant for other instructors at LMU and beyond, and
- have a clear and direct connection to the enhancement of teaching and learning by focusing on the teaching methods of collegiate or graduate level teaching (not disciplinary content) or on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Travel for professional development in the use of a particular pedagogy that will be incorporated into or has been part of the applicant’s teaching, travel to present a paper related to the scholarship of teaching and learning at a conference focusing on college teaching, or travel to present a paper at a disciplinary conference on pedagogy at the collegiate level are examples of travel that could meet these guidelines.
Through the travel grants, the Center for Teaching Excellence supports LMU faculty in the development and sharing of their commitment to excellent and scholarly teaching by engaging in dialogue with professionals outside of the University and bringing that dialogue back to campus.
Travel grants are awarded subject to available funds and in a competitive manner. The Committee on Excellence in Teaching reviews all grant applications. Additional application deadlines may be announced if additional funds are available, otherwise later applications will be considered on a rolling basis subject to the availability of funds.
With the support of their Department Chair or Program Director, part-time faculty may apply for travel grants between 4/15 and 5/1 if there are any remaining travel grant funds and if there is
- a close and clear connection between the travel purpose and their LMU teaching,
- the travel is expected to have a signficant positive impact on the faculty member's teaching in a key course in the departmental/program curriculum,
- the lessons learnt and new teaching approaches plus material are shared with all departmental/program faculty and beyond (also via the CTE) in a systematic fashion,
- similar development opportunities are not available at LMU, and
- the faculty member will be teaching the relevant class(es) after the travel.
A part-time faculty travel grant application has to be accompanied by a letter from the Department Chair or Program Director making a strong case for the travel satisfying the aforementioned criteria; the relevant class(es), pedagogy, and teaching schedule need to be clearly identified.
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Year
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Deadline
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Invitation Letter
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Guidelines and Forms
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Report/Reimbursement Instructions
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Other
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2012-13
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11/16/12
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pdf
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pdf
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pdf
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applications accepted until 4/12/13 or until funds are exhausted, summer travel considered
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2011-12
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11/14/11
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pdf
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pdf
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pdf
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annual funds exhausted
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Travel Grant Awards
Conferences