PURPOSE:

The Faculty Career Development Program (FCDP) supports the research or creative activities of junior faculty in order to enhance their progress toward the Associate Professor level. The program also recognizes and rewards individuals who have promoted diversity and equal opportunity.

ELIGIBILITY:

The program is open to all Assistant Professors with Academic Senate membership (Ladder-Rank, In Residence, and Clinical X series), without regard to race, religion, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.  An applicant must have been employed in one of the named series for at least one year by the application deadline of January 31, 2008, and must be at the rank of Assistant Professor at the time the award is utilized.

DESCRIPTION:

The FCDP provides funding for release from the teaching of one to two courses to allow junior faculty time to concentrate their efforts on research or creative activities.  These awards are in the form of reimbursements to departments for substitute instructors, and the amounts are based on a rate established by the SVCAA.  Awards for course relief will be either $8,758 per course (for courses in engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, and economics) or $6,568 per course (for courses in all other disciplines).  The current rate will apply at time the funding is transferred.

Release time from clinical duties may be granted in the Health Sciences, and the amount of funding will be comparable to course relief on the General Campus.

The program may also provide support for supplies/equipment, salary for an assistant, summer research, travel expenses related to a project, etc. 

SELECTION
CRITERIA:

Five factors are considered in the selection process. Proposals will be carefully evaluated for their significance in regard to one or more of the following:

1. The merit of the proposal.
2. The applicant's efforts to diversify the campus, including public service contributions that promote diversity and equal opportunity, student mentoring, curriculum development, research in areas relating to diversity (race, ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism, etc.), or other efforts the applicant may enumerate. (Academic Personnel Manual, section 210.1.d, encourages and gives recognition to faculty contributions that promote diversity and equal opportunity. See: http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/sec2-pdf.html  Select link titled "APM 210-Review and Appraisal Committees".)
3. The expected impact of an award on the applicant's research program or creative activities and its potential to enhance the chances for advancement to the associate level.
4. The obstacles that have hindered research or creative activities, including but not limited to lack of or inadequacy of available external funding, etc.
5. The receipt of any previous FCDP award (preference is given to first-time awardees).

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:

The FCDP Application form and the Department Chair’s Evaluation form are available for downloading (see FORMS section below).  Complete the FCDP Application form and attach the following:

1. A one-page description of the proposed project (minimum 10-point type size).
2. A copy of the UCSD Academic Biography/Bibliography form.

Submit to your department chair:

1. Proposal package containing original proposal plus nine (9) complete copies (please assemble materials with paper clips, not staples).
2. Department Chair's Evaluation form.

Ask the department chair to complete the evaluation form, to attach the signed original plus nine (9) copies of the evaluation form to the proposal package, and to then forward the complete package to the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity, mail code 0029.

An FCDP award that provides teaching relief does not relieve the awardee of other department responsibilities and university service.  The FCDP is an in-residence program, and the award of an FCDP grant does not confer a leave of absence.  Applicants are advised to obtain approval from their department chairs and deans for absences due to FCDP-research conducted away from campus.

APPLICATION
DEADLINE:

Proposals must be submitted by Thursday, January 31, 2008.

REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS:

Proposals will be reviewed by the Academic Senate Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity, and recommendations will be submitted to the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in March 2008.  Applicants will be notified of the results in early April 2008.

USE OF AWARD:

Awards must be used during the academic year July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009.

REPORTING REQUIREMENT:

AN AWARD CARRIES WITH IT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE A REPORT ON THE USE OF THE FUNDS. The report must detail how funds were expended and how the award assisted the recipient in achieving the goals set forth in the proposal (such as obtaining grant funding, completing research, and/or publication of research).  Submit the report to Jon Welch, Director of the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity, by August 31, 2009.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE OF FUNDS:

The awardee:

1. is responsible for administration of the award;
2. is personally responsible for any overdrafts; and
3. must return funds not spent by June 30, 2009.

Any equipment purchased with a Faculty Career Development Program award becomes the property of the University upon acquisition and reverts to the University upon completion of the project for which the funds were awarded.  All expenditures are subject to applicable University regulations.

CONTACT:

Jon Welch, Director of the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity, mail code 0029, extension 44497, e-mail welchj@ucsd.edu.

FORMS:

The FCDP Application form and the Department Chair's Evaluation form are available below in two formats.  Adobe's Acrobat Reader can be downloaded and installed for free by following this link to Get Acrobat Reader.

Word versions of:
FCDP Application  
Department Chair's Evaluation

PDF versions of:
FCDP Application
Department Chair's Evaluation