{"id":8025,"date":"2021-04-02T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?page_id=8025"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:15:45","slug":"academic-professional-development-fund","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/office-of-academic-affairs\/faculty-resources\/academic-professional-development-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Professional Development Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Academic Professional Development Fund<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Earlham College\u2019s Academic Professional Development Fund (PDF) provides grants to teaching faculty for projects undertaken during the academic year or summer months. The purpose of PDF funding is to encourage professional intellectual growth and productivity. Administered by the Office of Academic Affairs, Academic PDF-sponsored activities should be of a research, scholarly or artistic nature and should enhance teaching and learning at Earlham; personal and scholarly professional development; and\/or Earlham\u2019s public intellectual profile. They should be directly related to the applicant\u2019s evolving role and duties and should enrich not only the funded individual(s), but also the College as a whole. Toward this end, all grants are subject to approval by the Chief Academic Officer.

A portion of the Professional Development Fund will be set aside annually to support professional activities in curricular teaching and learning by administrative faculty at the College. Examples of such activities might include a work-related course, seminar or conference. Applications should be submitted to the Academic Affairs Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some cases administrative faculty who are undertaking scholarly research projects may apply for an Academic PDF. Feel free to contact the Associate Academic Dean for Faculty for help in discerning whether your project falls into this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View charge and membership of the Professional Development Fund Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n