About the Program
The Timme Travel Grant Program represents a portion of monies derived from an endowment established by Abigail Smith Timme and designated for the Timme Center for Teaching Excellence, now known as the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning (FCTL). At the time of its inception, the Center was established to "encourage and support the enrichment of teaching and learning skills."
We are currently not accepting applications for Timme Travel Grants. The deadline for for travel between June and November 2009 was May 1, 2009. The next application period will be in November for travel to occur between December 2009 and May 2010. Please watch University Wide Notices for more information.
Procedures and Guidelines
Application Procedures
- Applications are not yet being accepted for travel between December 2009 and May 2010 . The next open application time period will be in November 2009 for travel to occur between December and May 2010.
- During an open application period, submit a completed Timme Travel Grant application (Word doc) to your Department Chair or Head for his or her approval. Approval via e-mail is required.
- Once approved, the Chair or Head, in turn, must forward the application to the Dean of the College. Again, approval via e-mail is required.
- If approved, the Dean must forward the application electronically with his or her approval to Laurie Daniels in FCTL (danielsl@ferris.edu).
- Copies of the applications with the requisite approvals that are received on or before the closing date will be given to members of the Timme Travel Grant Review Committee for review.
- The Review Committee will complete its review.
- Laurie Daniels or Todd Stanislav will inform faculty of the outcome of the review.
- If your application is approved, we will inform--for purposes of their budgeting considerations--your Dean, Department Head or Chair, and Account Clerk of the amount awarded and for which specific conference.
- Here is a visual depiction of the procedures. (PDF 48KB)
Guidelines
- All faculty – full-time, part-time, tenure-track, and non-tenure track – are eligible for Timme Travel Grant awards.
- The number of Timme Travel Grant awards that is made is dependent, in part, on the amount of funding allocated from the Timme Endowment to the Timme Travel Grant Program.
- No more than 20% of the total available funding for the Timme Travel Grant Program will be allocated for travel of non-tenure track faculty.
- Timme Travel Grant awards will be limited to no more than three faculty traveling to the same training, conference, symposium, institute, workshop, etc. (henceforth referred to as "conference").
- Applications will be accepted during a four-week period twice during the academic year, once beginning in April and again in August (specific dates will vary from year-to-year). Applications submitted during the period beginning in April will be for conference travel during the months June through November. Applications submitted during the period beginning in late August will be for conference travel during the months December through May.
- Only completed applications with necessary approvals received on or before the closing date will be reviewed by the Timme Travel Grant Review Committee; the review is not a blind review.
- A faculty member can receive only one Timme Travel Grant award per academic year (where "academic year" refers here and elsewhere in this document to the period of Fall through Summer semesters).
- Each year, the pool of applicants may include three subgroups of faculty:
- Subgroup 1: Faculty whose application was reviewed but not funded in the previous academic year
- Subgroup 2: Faculty who did not submit an application in the previous academic year
- Subgroup 3: Faculty who received a Timme Travel Grant award in the previous academic year.
- During the review process, the applications from faculty in Subgroup 1 will be reviewed and decisions about which applications to fund will be made first. Subsequently, applications from faculty in Subgroup 2 will be reviewed and decisions about which applications to fund will be made. Finally, applications from faculty in Subgroup 3 will be reviewed and decisions regarding which to fund will be made.
Timme Travel Grant Review Committee
Committee Composition, Scope of Work, and Terms of Service
- The Timme Travel Grant Review Committee is comprised of a faculty member from FLITE and each of the 8 Colleges, and a representative from the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.
- Faculty members serving on the Committee will serve two-year, staggered terms and are permitted to serve two consecutive terms. In order to establish staggered terms of service, members of the inaugural Committee that was established in April 2008 will serve for 1, 2 or 3 years.
- Timme Travel Grant Review Committee members are permitted to submit a Timme Travel Grant application but must recuse themselves from the review of their applications.
- The inaugural Timme Travel Grant Review Committee created in April 2008 will establish criteria for evaluating the Supporting Narrative portion of the application. Subsequent Review Committees will review Supporting Narrative and other criteria, and if warranted, recommend revisions to the FCTL Director.
- The current review criteria are found here. April 2009 (PDF 164KB)
- The most recent previous review criteria are found here. April 2008 (PDF 89 KB)
- Timme Travel Grant Review Committee members, April 2008 – August 2010:
Name |
College |
Term Ends |
Steve Karnes |
College of Allied Health Sciences |
March 2012 |
Jody Ollenquist |
College of Arts and Sciences |
March 2010 |
Abdollah Ferdowsi |
College of Business |
March 2010 |
Susan Hastings-Bishop |
College of Education & Human Services |
March 2011 |
Vandana Rajaram |
College of Optometry |
March 2010 |
Mary Frances Ross |
College of Pharmacy |
March 2010 |
Robert Most |
College of Technology |
March 2011 |
Todd Stanislav |
Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning |
March 2011 |
Kristen Motz |
FLITE |
March 2011 |
Helen Woodman |
University College |
March 2010 |
- Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
August 2008
Reimbursement Procedures
- After you've completed your trip, submit a completed travel expense form to your supervisor for reimbursement using your department account number.
- Submit a copy of the approved travel form (not the receipts or other documentation) to Laurie Daniels, IRC 134D.
- At the end of each semester, transfers are requested from FCTL to reimburse all departments for these expenses.
Past guidelines (2007-08)
Updated
4/3/2009 |
