UCSF Academic Senate 2014-2015 Chancellor’s FundIn summer 2014, the Academic Senate was gifted $500,000 (Core Funds) by incoming Chancellor Hawgood to use toward faculty life. This amount is intended to be an annual renewal with the funds being spent within each fiscal year. It has already been built into the Financial Plan for the campus for the next ten years.
The intention in 2014-2015 was for these funds to benefit as many faculty as possible, in as many different ways as possible. Following full committee discussions, nine pathways were identified – with four of them including Calls for Applications. The other five will enhance pre-existing campus mechanisms. Calls for Applications:
Please click here for access to the online application. During discussion, multiple committees identified funding opportunities that existed from pre-existing campus mechanism. In fall 2014 the UCSF Academic Senate began to discuss, at a Standing Committee level, possible directions for the distribution of these funds. Faculty Learning and DevelopmentAcademic Planning & Budget Committee/Clinical Affairs Committee/Faculty CouncilsThe Learning & Development Fund is no longer accepting applications.The review body – comprised of members of the Academic Senate’s Faculty Councils, Committee on Academic Planning and Budget and Clinical Affairs Committee – are reviewing/scoring applications. Academic Planning & Budget Committee / Clinical Affairs Committee / Faculty Councils * Total Amount in Fund: $91,604 ($22,901 to each school) School of Medicine is no longer accepting applications as of 5/22/15 Description: Faculty members of all series and ranks are eligible. Interested faculty must have appointments of 50% or greater. School of Dentistry faculty – please see below for specific criteria for your School. Application Process: All awardees of the funds will be required to provide a summary of their experience and notes on the usefulness of the conference, course, or activity they participated in using the funds. After the development activity is complete, each awardee will be ask to provide a short report for their Faculty Council reviewing the experience. Please click here for access to the online application. * Note: you can apply for either the Faculty Learning & Development Fund OR the Faculty Enrichment Fund, but cannot apply for both. SOD Faculty and Development Fund * Total Amount in Fund: The School of Dentistry will receive $22,901 from the Chancellors Fund and another $22,901 from the Dean’s Office, totaling $48,502 available to faculty. School of Dentistry will extend its deadline from May 15 to June 9, 2015 Description: Faculty members of all series and ranks are eligible. Interested faculty must have appointments of 50% or greater. Faculty Council members are eligible to apply for grants, but must recuse themselves from the evaluation of their proposal. Application Process: All awardees of the funds will be required to provide a summary of their experience and notes on the usefulness of the conference, course, or activity they participated in using the funds. Please click here for access to the online application. * Note: you can apply for either the Faculty Learning & Development Fund OR the Faculty Enrichment Fund, but cannot apply for both. Contact: Artemio Cardenas (415) 476-4245 Faculty Enrichment/NeedsFaculty Welfare Committee *The Enrichment Fund is no longer accepting applications.The review body – comprised of members of the Academic Senate’s Committee on Faculty Welfare – are reviewing applications. Amount: $250-$2000 Total Amount in Fund: $91,603 Description: This fund is intended for small grants to support activities, services, or items which will enhance work-life and/or well-being at work for a UCSF faculty member. The following are examples of possible requests, but requests are not in any way limited to this list:
Requests for personal expenditures, for example personal entertainment or personal travel, will be excluded from funding. Application Process: Applicants should submit a PDF with their request including what the request is for, the amount requested, a brief paragraph explanation about how funding of this request will enhance that faculty member’s work-life and/or well-being at work, and supporting documentation. Requests will be reviewed to ensure that they meet the intended purpose of the funding. Applicants may submit one request, once every three years. Please click here for access to the online application. If travel to a conference is part of what you’re seeking funding for, please provide the following information in your online application:
* Note: you can apply for either the Faculty Learning & Development Fund OR the Faculty Enrichment Fund, but cannot apply for both. Contact: Michelle Sanko (415) 476-9683 Educational Technology Needs for FacultyCommittee on Educational Policy
Applications will be reviewed and awarded on a rolling basis
Amount: up to $1,000 Total Amount in Fund: $11,450 Description: Funds are available to assist faculty obtain educational technology for classroom or clinical instruction or produce visual media to use during presentations at organized conferences and meetings. Educational Technology for Classroom or Clinical Instruction Funds are available to support the procurement of educational technology for existing or proposed classroom or clinical instruction. Examples:
Visual Media for Conference Presentations Funds are available to support the production of visual materials (e.g., posters, videos, etc.) necessary to present educational innovation at organized conferences and meetings. Examples:
Application Process: Applications must be sent as a PDF and include:
Applications are limited to 300 words and will be reviewed by members of the Academic Senate Committee on Education. You will be notified by email if your grant application has been approved or denied. Incomplete applications cannot be processed and will not be reviewed. Please click here for access to the online application. Contact: Ken Laslavic (415) 476-8827 Sustainability Conference GrantsSustainability CommitteeApplications will be reviewed and awarded on a rolling basisAmount: Registration fee, airfare (up to $500), and hotel (up to amount limited by UC Policy BFB-G-28) Total Amount in Fund: $7,767 Description: Funds are available to assist faculty and other trainees attend four academic and health science sustainability meetings.
Other funds allocated for sustainability efforts will support the hiring of an intern to complete a faculty mentored project in environmental sustainability and the invitation of a nationally recognized leader to deliver a speech on environmental sustainability in health sciences to occur in the fall of 2015. Criteria:
Application Process: Download the Travel Grant Application Form from the Academic Senate website. Applications must be submitted as a PDF and include:
If there are more requests submitted than can be funded, funding will be decided by lottery among all requests deemed to meet the intended purpose of the funding. Please click here for access to the online application. Contact: Ken Laslavic (415) 476-8827 Pathways Funding Pre-existing Campus MechanismsDuring discussion, multiple committees identified funding opportunities that existed from pre-existing campus mechanism. After discussion with various entities, the following pathways will receive straight funding based on provided proposals.
Overview/Background on Decisions Related to FundingProcess In fall 2014 the UCSF Academic Senate began to discuss, at a Standing Committee level, possible directions for the distribution of these funds. The historical pathways for distribution of such funds included:
Both historical pathways were not used as both would’ve put determination of funds use in the hands of a small group. Of utmost interest in this process was parity and the inclusion of all committees input. Each Senate Standing Committee and Faculty Council was asked to provide a formal financial request for funds. Upon receipt of all requests—including requests from Committees and Councils to not receive funds this year—a financial breakdown was created which addressed all key ideas. Please click here to see the full financial breakdown by committee cluster – including initial asks and final budgeted amounts. Key Ideas After soliciting ideas from each Standing Committee, the following (listed in alphabetical order) consistently appeared as topics to fund:
Financial Plan – Budget Breakdown *
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Committees | 2014-2015 Initial Budget | 2014-2015 Budget Ask | 2014-2015 Budget Actual (FINAL) |
Education, Library, and Academic Welfare | $120K | ||
Education Policy | $15K | $11,450 | |
Courses of Instruction | -- | No direct ask 2014-15 | |
Graduate Council | -- | No direct ask 2014-15 | |
Library & Scholarly Communication | $120K | $91,603 | |
Subgroup Total | $120K | $135K | $103,053 |
Faculty Development & Research | $120K | ||
Committee on Research | $120K | $91,603 | |
Committee on Academic Freedom | No direct ask/ Suggested use for 2014-2015 |
No direct ask/ Suggested use for 2014-2015 |
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Committee on Equal Opportunity | $100K | $76,336 | |
Subgroup Total | $120K | $220K | $167,939 |
Faculty Enrichment & Welfare | $120K | ||
Faculty Welfare | $120K | $91,603 | |
Academic Personnel | $20K | $15,267 | |
Rules & Jurisdiction | $20K | $15,267 | |
Subgroup Total | $120K | $160K | $122,137 |
Infrastructure Enhancement | $120K | ||
Academic Planning & Budget | $60K | $45,802 | |
Clinical Affairs | $60K | $45,802 | |
Faculty Councils | --- | Worked with Academic Planning/Budget to determine asks | |
Subgroup Total | $120K | $120K | $91,604 |
Sustainability | $20K | $20K | $15,267 |
Subgroup Total | $20K | $20K | $15,267 |
Combined Total | $500K | $655K | $500,00 |