Pathways Funding Pre-existing Campus Mechanisms
During discussion, multiple committees and councils identified funding opportunities from pre-existing campus mechanisms. The following pathways received straight funding based on provided proposals.
- Child & Elder Care – Rules & Jurisdiction Committee
- These funds are intended to expand the number of spots available for faculty with children
- Information about Bright Horizons Care Advantage (Sittercity) can be found through Campus Life Services:
- Courses of Instruction Online System – Courses of Instruction Committee
- Develop a “help” function in the online Course Review System, to enable faculty users to obtain answers while on the system.
- Diversity Training Theater Series – Equal Opportunity Committee
- Hosting a single diversity training using an interactive theater presentation and discussion to allow for participation by a broad faculty audience. The Academic Senate will partner with the Office of Diversity & Outreach.
- Embase 1-Yr Trial & Open Access– Committee on Library & Scholarly Communication
- These funds will go towards supporting a one-year trial of Embase, the biomedical and pharmacological database of published literature and supporting the UCSF Open Access Publishing Fund.
- NCFDD’s “Boot Camp” – Equal Opportunity Committee
- Funds will be used to subsidize UCSF participation in the NCFDD’s Faculty Success "Boot Camp". The Academic Senate will partner with various UCSF Offices including the Graduate Division, Office of Diversity & Outreach, and the Vice Provost, Academic Affairs Office.
- Personalized Mentoring Advancement Promotion (PMAP) Module – Committee on Academic Personnel
- These funds are intended to bolster pre-existing and new mentoring efforts as developed by the Mentor Development Program (MDP) and the Faculty Mentoring Program.
- Mentoring efforts which utilize Chancellor’s Fund will focus on how faculty can be more knowledgeable about the advancement and promotion process within the campus—as pertains to their particular series and Department or Division—and also emphasize mentoring at the Associate- and Professor-level.
- Supplement Bridge Funding – School of Pharmacy Faculty Council
- These funds are intended to supplement pre-existing bridge funding or faculty development programs already in place within the School of Pharmacy
- Supplement Under-Represented Faculty & Senior Fellows in Clinical and Translational Research Awards – Equal Opportunity Committee
- In partnership with CTSI-Strategic Opportunities Support (SOS) Program, the UCSF Academic Senate is providing additional funding to expand the number of grants funded through the Under-Represented Faculty & Senior Fellows in Clinical and Translational Research Awards.
- These grants are processed through the Research Allocation Program (RAP) which has two funding cycles annually. The Academic Senate will provide additional funds within the pre-existing review and allocating process.
- The CTSI-Strategic Opportunities Support (SOS) program provides support for senior fellows, instructors and assistant professor faculty from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and from racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in clinical and translational sciences. The goal is to encourage fellows and junior faculty from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to remain in academia for their career and thus increase the diversity of our faculty.
- Research can be any area relevant to clinical and translational research. If not directly involving the study of people or populations, the proposed research must be clearly justified as being on the path to potential use in humans.