Professional Development Grants

The Center for Instructional Technology's travel grant program is designed to support faculty who wish to attend instructional technology related conferences, workshops, seminars, etc.

Program Description
CIT travel grants are restricted to a maximum of $800.00, and the total number of grants available is limited. Grants are awarded on the basis of first-come, first-served. Applicants must complete a travel grant application and attachments as stated below are required.

1. First submit a Request for Travel & Advance Form to your department head. State how much your department is funding. (if the department is not funding any money, the dept. head should sign the form stating zero funds). Please submit original paperwork.
2. If you are also seeking other internal funding sources, exhaust those first ( such as faculty development).
3. Your signed  Request for Travel & Advance Form should then be submitted along with the items below.
   
4. Complete the Travel Grant Form, stating the amount of funds requested, with a maximum of $800.
   
5. Include any back up information, such as a copy of the conference flier.
   
6. Submit forms to Kathy Morley, room C-334.

Your completed forms will be processed within a few days and forwarded to Accounts Payable for processing. Since there are limited funds, please make all requests for the rest of the fiscal year ending before February 15, 2008.

Summary of Materials
To receive a CIT travel grant, faculty must provide CIT with a summary of materials after attending a training session and commit to teaching a CIT workshop, or submit the material for sharing with other faculty members. The CIT office will place materials (when possible) on the CIT website so that they may be shared with other faculty. Submitted information may be in the form of:

1. Ideas and teaching suggestions using technology,
2. Conference presentations (PowerPoint's, slides, website links, etc.), and/or
3. In-house workshops or training sessions.

Information materials should be delivered to CIT within 2 weeks from the completed training date.