SUMMARY
This program enriches classroom teaching at Loyola by providing stipends for faculty to attend conferences which will improve their command of fields in which they teach ($1500 maximum). While support for a faculty member's attendance at regular major professional conferences ought to come from departmental and the dean's budgets, this program provides funds to attend colloquia, seminars, or academic conferences which a faculty member would not normally attend and which will directly contribute to the enrichment of one or more specific courses. Ordinarily, no more than three of these grants will be awarded in a given year. The program is not intended to fund the development of new courses or honoraria for guest lecturers. Requests for funding above these limits may be considered on the basis of the quality and imaginativeness of the proposal. ELIGIBILITY 1. Applicants must be tenured, tenure-track, or full-time affiliate Loyola faculty members in the humanities and ordinarily may submit only one proposal per year. STANDARDS FOR PROPOSALS 2. The proposal should explain clearly how the conference to be financed will benefit (a) specific course(s) at Loyola and why the funding should come from the Center for the Humanities rather than other sources in the College and it should include general information on the program, the host institution or organization. PROCEDURES 3. The proposal should include: a. the applicant's department, rank, years of teaching at Loyola and elsewhere and a budget; b. approval of the applicant's department chair expressed in a letter (500 words or less) or by the chair's signature on the proposal; c. an explanation of the value of the conference or activity proposed to (a) specific course(s) in the humanities (500 words maximum). DEADLINE 4. PROPOSALS (20 COPIES) MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE PROGRAMS DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER BY THE LAST (WORKING) DAY OF ANY MONTH FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE NEXT MONTH'S MEETING OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE. Revised June, 2005 Return to Main | 
