The Center for Teaching Excellence has a limited travel budget to fund a small number of faculty each year to attend conferences that promote excellence in teaching. These funds are available under the CTE’s initiative to build and support teaching and learning communities.
The CTE Director has traditionally pinpointed conferences and announced these as opportunities for interested faculty.
In addition, the CTE will consider proposals that arise from the interests of faculty members themselves. Special attention will be given to teams of individuals who wish to attend a conference together with the goal of building collaborative teaching and scholarship relationships. Because this funding is limited and is specifically linked to the CTE’s mission of promoting excellence in teaching, faculty travel that is already funded through the VPAA’s office will not be supported.
Any faculty member, department chair, or program director can identify a relevant conference and submit a proposal to receive CTE travel funds. The proposal should be submitted to the CTE Director via email (lgrupp@providence.edu) or hard copy at least 4 weeks in advance of the conference. All funding requests should include the following:
- Conference dates and description (a link to the conference website would be adequate).
- If a team of individuals proposes to attend a conference together, a brief rationale for attending as a team.
- Estimated expenses (follow the PC guidelines for travel and per diem rates).
- A brief description of the potential impact of this conference on your ability to build and maintain a teaching and learning community (either with students or colleagues).
- Whether or not you have received travel funds from the CTE in the past, when, and for what purpose.
Within 2 weeks after a funded conference/travel date, the faculty member is requested to submit a short report summarizing the conference experience to the CTE Director, Dr. Laurie L. Grupp lgrupp@providence.edu.