The Lecturers' Professional Development Fund (LPDF) is a CRLT-sponsored grant specifically for U-M's Lecturers. If you are a Lecturer on the Ann Arbor campus with a continuing appointment, you are eligible to apply for a grant of up to $2000 to fund professional development opportunities related to your teaching or scholarship. For example, the funds could be used to support
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attendance at a professional meeting
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purchase of computer hardware or software
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travel expenses associated with accessing resources at other institutions
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subscriptions to professional journals
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editorial, graduate student, or work-study assistance.
Applications for the grant are due on September 25th at 4pm. Details about how to apply can be found on our LPDF application page . Prospective applicants can also view the reports from previous LPDF recipients to get a sense of the range of projects that have been funded in the past.
Every year, CRLT provides over $300,000 to U-M's instructors to support improvements to teaching and curriculum. For more information about the range of grants available from CRLT, click here .
Submitted by rkniemer on Thu, 09/06/2012 - 9:33pm