Faculty Development Committee (FDC)

Function: To advise the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs (DOF/VPAA) on faculty development policies; to initiate ideas for faculty growth and improvement, including programs to support both scholarly and professional activity and the improvement of teaching; to allocate such research funds as the DOF/VPAA shall designate; to represent the faculty on the award of pre-tenure paid research and sabbatical leaves and to make recommendations on such leaves to the DOF/VPAA; and to select the annual Edwin Moseley Faculty Research Lecturer and the recipients of the Ralph A. Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Phyllis A. Roth Faculty Distinguished Service Award.