FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2002-2003
Membership, 2002-2003:
" John Brueggeman, Associate Dean, (Spring term)
" Alice Dean, Chair, Professor of Mathematics
" Sarah Goodwin, Associate Dean, (Fall term)
" Viviana Rangil, Associate Professor of Spanish
" Peter Stake, Associate Professor of Art
" Aldo Vacs, Professor of Government
Membership, 2003-2004:
" John Brueggeman, Associate Dean
" Steven Frey, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
" Margaret Pearson, Associate Professor of History
" Viviana Rangil, Associate Professor of Spanish
" Peter Stake, Chair, Associate Professor of Art
The committee met sixteen times during the academic year. The primary
function of the FDC is solicitation, consideration, and awarding of applications
for various faculty development opportunities that are offered throughout
the academic year. A list of this year's awards is appended to this report.
Other committee items of interest include the following:
" Faculty Major Project Completion awards were given for the first
time this year. FDC designed a set of guidelines that will appear in the
2003-2004 Faculty Development Handbook, and a mid-to-late fall application
deadline will be implemented, to make it easier for faculty whose applications
for this award are rejected to apply for the Faculty Research Initiative
Grant at the beginning of the spring semester.
" Interaction with CFG: CFG added FDC to the membership of the Committee
of Committees, and the chair of FDC was included in the membership of
GAC. In addition, FDC proposed to CFG that the length of faculty terms
be extended from two years to three, to improve the experience and institutional
memory that can be brought to bear on award decisions. The proposal was
approved by CFG, and it will be brought before the faculty in the fall.
" In the spirit of improving FDC's institutional memory, the committee
developed a set of criteria (modified from a 1997-98 FDC document) for
evaluating Moseley Faculty Lecturer nominations. The new guidelines will
be passed on to the next FDC to use or not, as it sees fit.
" The committee members expressed concern that faculty members are
not maximizing the opportunities to either obtain grant money for themselves,
or to honor colleagues with outstanding records. The committee hopes that
future FDC's will try to address this issue by increased advertising of
both opportunities and faculty accomplishments, and by reminding faculty
members that the process for applying themselves, or for recommending
colleagues, is quite simple for most awards.
" On the other hand, one award that is sometimes over-requested is
the Faculty Development Grant. Every effort is made to give as full as
possible awards to all deserving applicants. The committee reminds faculty
members applying for travel money to be sure to first exhaust their Travel
to Read/Represent funds, before applying for a Faculty Development Grant
to fund travel.
" At the suggestion of several award recipients, the letters announcing
approval or rejection of applications will be redesigned to give that
information more directly, at the beginning of the letter.
" Summer technology grants: After consultation and discussion, the
committee agreed that the guidelines of these grants should be revised
to fund not just "equipment acquisition," but more general expenses.
The change will be consistent with the policies for other awards. We also
agreed that a future FDC should revisit the guidelines for approving web
design proposals.
Peter Stake will be Chair of the Faculty Development Committee for academic
year 2003-2004.
Many thanks to the committee members for their hard work and good will,
and especially to Chris McGill, who did so much for FDC at a time when
she was (in addition to her 'day job' in the DOF office) also playing
a major role in coordinating the selection of our new president.
Respectfully submitted,
Alice Dean, Chair
APPENDIX: AWARDS ADMINISTERED BY FDC, 2003-2003
THE RALPH A. CIANCIO AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
2003-04
Gregory Pfitzer
Professor of American Studies
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM
SUMMER 2003
Team 1: Beau Breslin, Assistant Professor of Government
Sarah Luckenbach '04
Matthew Sweet '04
Project: "Transcending: Reflections by Crime Victims"
Team 2: David Karp, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Miriam Popper '05
Project: "An Evaluation of Saratoga County's Victim Impact Panel
Program"
Team 3: James McLelland, Visiting Professor of Geoscience
Davin Lyons '06
Project: "Geological Field Mapping, Geochemistry, Dating, and Interpretation
of the Southeastern Adirondacks Exposed Northwest of Saratoga Springs"
Team 4: Flip Phillips, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Kevin DeSimone '03
Project: "Viewpoint and Control"
Team 5: Robert C. Turner, Assistant Professor of Government
Dave Thayer '04
Project: "Prisons as a Rural Economic Development Strategy"
Team 6: Professor David Vella of Mathematics and Computer Science
David Wiygul '04
Project: "An Exploration of Lie Algebras: Structure, Representations,
and Orbits"
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Sheldon Solomon, Professor of Psychology
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS
FOR THE PERIOD OF JANUARY - AUGUST 2003
Ann Alton, Lecturer in Music
CD Recording of New Works for Flute, Guitar & Cello
Joel Brown, Artist-in-Residence in Music
CD Recording of New Works for Flute, Guitar & Cello
Daniel Flores-Guri, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Determinants of Taxicab Activity in U. S. Cities
Richard Linke, Associate Professor of Art
Pre-Press Design for an Adirondack Monograph
Margo Mensing, Assistant Professor of Art
Joint Exhibition with John McQueen
Barbara Norelli, Associate Librarian
ACRL Immersion & Beyond
Paul Sattler, Assistant Professor of Art
Excavating Beauty
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS
JUNE - DECEMBER, 2003
John Anzalone, Professor of French
World War One Graphics
Michael Arnush, Associate Professor of Classics
Participation in the Summer Seminar on Electronic Publication at Harvard-University's
Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
Erica Bastress-Dukehart, Assistant Professor of History
Here is the Velvet Dress I Promised: Fathers, Daughters, and the Rhetoric
of Inheritance in Early Modern Europe
Susan Bender, Professor of Anthropology
Radiometric Dating of an Archaeological Site in South Park, Colorado
Donna Brent, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
Special Education: A comparison of identification, assessment and intervention
practices in the United States and Italy
Ngina Chiteji, Assistant Professor of Economics
Intergenerational Connections and Wealth: Their Economic Importance and
Social Significance
Alice M. Dean, Professor of Mathematics
Characterization and Representation of Unit Bar-visibility Graphs
Tom Denny, Associate Professor of Music
The Ending(s) of Don Giovanni: German Practice, German Sources
Michael Ennis-McMillan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Gender and Community-Based Water Management in the Valley of Mexico
Pat Fidopiastis, Assistant Professor of Biology
The Role of Zinc-Metalloprotease Activity in the Symbiotic Colonization
of Squid by the Marine Luminous Bacterium Vibrio fischeri
Deb Hall, Assistant Professor of Art
Typography, Technology & Identity: The large-format printing &
framing of a body of digital work
Susan S. Lehr, Professor of Education
Participant in the Children's Literature New England Summer Institute
at Newnham College in Cambridge, England
Elzbieta Lepkowska-White, Assistant Professor of Management & Business
Transitional Economy: Longitudinal Analysis of Country of Origin Information
in Print Advertising
William Lewis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
The Purification of Theory for Practice: Althusser and the Traditions
of French Marxism
Birgit Linder, Visiting Assistant Professor in Foreign Languages &
Literature
Madness in China: A Cultural and Literary Pathology of Self and Reason
Crystal Moore, Assistant Professor of Social Work
Strategies to Promote Surrogate Involvement in Effective Patient-Centered
Care
John L. Moore, Senior Artist-in-Residence in Art & Art History
Development of Internet Publication on the "State of Contemporary
Painting in Paris Now"
Jerry Philogene, Lecturer in American Studies
Imagining the Caribbean and its Diaspora: New Approaches in Anglophone
Caribbean Art History and Visual Culture
Viviana Rangil, Associate Professor of Spanish
Contemporary Argentinean Women Filmmakers
Roy Rotheim, Professor of Economics
Research with the J.M. Keynes Papers at Kings College, University of Cambridge
Mary Zeiss Stange, Associate Professor of Women's Studies & Religion
Field Research at the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum and the Annie
Oakley Foundation
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE GRANT
David Domozych, Professor of Biology
Complete Key Phase of Ongoing Research
David Peterson, Professor of Art
Stone Markers: Development of a Site-Specific Installation
FACULTY AWARD FOR MAJOR PROJECT COMPLETION
SUMMER 2003
Jordana Dym, Assistant Professor of History
To complete and index the manuscript, From Pueblos to Pueblo: Creating
National States in Central America
Catherine J. Golden, Professor of English
To complete a sourcebook on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow
Wall-
Paper"
Holley S. Hodgins, Associate Professor of Psychology
To complete two manuscripts for publication in the Journal of Personality
and
Social Psychology
Hedi Jaouad, Associate Professor of French
To complete the book-length study, The Sword and the Pen: The Reception
of the
Figure of Emir Abdel-Kader in the Literature of Nineteenth-Century Europe
and the United States
Amelia Rauser, Assistant Professor of Art History
To complete the manuscript, Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity,
and
Individualism in 18th-century British Prints
Denise Smith, Associate Professor of Exercise Science
To complete the data analysis and manuscript writing phase of "Changes
in
Physiological and Psychological Profiles of Fire Fighters during a One-Week
Intensive Training Course"
MOSELEY LECTURER
Roy Rotheim, Professor of Economics
SABBATICAL LEAVES
RECOMMENDED FOR 2003-04
FOR ENTIRE YEAR 2003-04
R. Daniel Hurwitz, Professor of Mathematics
Regina M. Janes, Professor of English
Susan Kress, Professor of English; Class of 1948 Professor for Excellence
in Teaching
Mary C. Lynn, Professor of American Studies
Monica Raveret Richter, Associate Professor of Biology
Deborah Rohr, Associate Professor of Music
FOR FALL 2003
Holley S. Hodgins, Associate Professor of Psychology
Steven A. Hoffmann, Professor of Government
Roy J. Rotheim, Professor of Economics
Sheldon Solomon, Professor of Psychology
David Domozych, Professor of Biology
FOR SPRING 2004
Gerald M. Erchak, Professor of Anthropology
Regis C. Brodie, Professor of Art
Gautam Dasgupta, Professor of Theater
Mary DiSanto-Rose, Associate Professor of Dance
Patricia Fehling, Associate Professor of Exercise Science
Jane S. Graves, Associate Professor, Visual Resources/Arts Librarian
Tadahisa Kuroda, The David H. Porter Professor
Bernard Possidente, Professor of Biology
William J. Standish, Associate Professor of Physics
Aldo C. Vacs, Joseph C. Palamountain Professor of Government
Marc-Andre Wiesmann, Associate Professor of French
UNTENURED SABBATICAL LEAVES
RECOMMENDED FOR 2003-04
FOR ENTIRE YEAR 2003-04
**Susan Belden, Associate Professor of Management & Business
**Ngina S. Chiteji, Assistant Professor of Economics
FOR FALL 2003
**David D. Weis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
**Deborah R. Hall, Assistant Professor of Art
FOR SPRING 2004
**Robert C. Turner, Assistant Professor of Government
**Pending Reappointment
SUMMER TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION GRANTS
Deborah Hall, Assistant Professor of Art
Introduction to Wide Format Printing
David Weis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Development of a Website for the Department of Chemistry
TANG EXHIBITION GRANT RECIPIENTS
2002-03
Mary Crone, Assistant Professor of Physics & Margo Mensing, Assistant
Professor of Art
"Supernova/Sense"
October-December, 2004
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