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The Provost's Faculty Development Award program is intended to recognize excellence in the University’s professional-track faculty and provide resources to support their professional development. Application is open to all ranks of benefits-eligible professional-track faculty in the lecturer, instruction, practice, research, clinical faculty title series. The award provides up to $10,000 to support up to two years of the professional development opportunities and activities of each awardee. Funding can be used for summer salary, or can be split between summer salary and an operational account to be used by faculty member for purposes of research or professional development.
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The total budget cannot exceed $10,000 . See and may include only allowable items that support research and professional development activities as described at UT FDA Guidelines 2024-25 FINAL.pdf . docx, section A.3 “Allowable Expenses for the FDA.”
FDA funds cannot be used for One-Time Payments, cash advances of any type, or award payouts. If summer salary is included, it will be paid via Payroll and subject to all applicable taxes and deductions.
COE does not have any college-specific guidelines beyond what is stated in the UT guidelines.
Note: A budget summary is included in the required application document COE FDA Timing and Eligibility Checklist referenced in step 2 of the “Application process” instructions on this page.
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Example 1: FDA activities across a two-year period beginning at the earliest permitted start time (May 16, 2025) following application:
Academic Year 2024-25 | Academic Year 2025-26 | Academic Year 2026-27 | ||||||
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Fall | Spring | Summer | Fall | Spring | Summer | Fall | Spring | Summer |
Apply | FDA starts | FDA ends | ||||||
Year 1 | Year 2 | |||||||
Example 2: FDA activities across a two-year period beginning at the latest permitted start time (May 16, 2026) following application:
Academic Year 2024-25 | Academic Year 2025-26 | Academic Year 2026-27 | Academic Year 2027-28 | ||||||||
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Fall | Spring | Summer | Fall | Spring | Summer | Fall | Spring | Summer | Fall | Spring | Summer |
Apply | FDA starts | FDA ends | |||||||||
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Timeline for application year 2024-25
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September 3-October 1: Application system open
October 4: COE Faculty Affairs completes applicant eligibility review
October 9-November 8: COE committee review of FDA applications
November 9: Deadline for COE review committee to forward recommendations to Dean
November 10-17: Dean review
November 18: Dean sends FDA awardee recommendations to EVPP
December 18: EVPP notifies awardees
February 17: FDA recipients’ acceptance forms due to COE Faculty Affairs
Eligibility
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Faculty are encouraged to confirm their eligibility prior to applying. Eligibility will be confirmed by the COE Assistant Director for Faculty Affairs and the Provost’s Office prior to review.
To be eligible to apply for an FDA, a faculty member must be tenured at the time of application and must meet all of the following criteria at the time of application:
Applicant is a Current professional-track faculty member (position in any rank ) in the instruction, practice, clinical, research , or lecturer title series.Has served as a benefits-eligible
At the time of application, has served in a professional-track faculty member position of at least 50% FTE at UT Austin in both the fall and spring terms during each of the two consecutive academic years immediately preceding the academic year of FDA their application (i.e., in both 2022-23 and 2023-24).
For information about specific scenarios, see UT FDA Guidelines 2024-25 FINAL.docx > Section B. Timing.
Has met or exceeded expectations on their annual reviews in their two most recent years of benefits-eligible service preceding this FDA application (i.e. 2022-23 and 2023-24).
If applicant did not receive annual reviews in their two most recent years of benefits-eligible service, the department chair/immediate supervisor must contact EVPP Faculty Affairs to request an exception, and the exception must be approved.
Any previous FDA awarded to this applicant ended no later than summer 2023.
Department chair and/or immediate supervisor approve the proposed timing of activities in their FDA application.
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Proposed FDA budget totals no more than $10,000 and includes only allowable items that support research and professional development activities as outlined in Section A.3 of UT FDA Guidelines 2024-25 FINAL.docx.
All requirements described at the following:
"Eligibility" section of EVPP: Faculty Development Award
2024-25 COE guidelines at EVPP: Faculty Development Award > "College and School FDL Guidelines" in right-hand side bar > "College of Education"
Application process
Before applying, please carefully review the "Eligibility" and "Conditions for recipients" sections on this page.
COE application process:
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Applicant | 1 | a) Discuss the timing of the proposed FDA with their department chair. For timing options, see section 1 of COE FDA Timing and Eligibility Checklist. b) Review all University and College eligibility requirements for the award - see FDA > Eligibility on this page. |
2 | Initiate and route COE FDA Timing and Eligibility Checklist: a) Complete items I-IV of "Applicant completes" section and sign. b) Department chair completes and signs the appropriate section of the form. c) Applicant forwards form to COE-FacultyAffairs@austin.utexas.edu for review and completion. | |
COE Faculty Affairs | 3 | Review COE FDA Timing and Eligibility Checklist, complete, and return to applicant. (Applicant will include completed form in their application materials.) |
Applicant | 4 | Submit application including all requested materials through the Provost's online system prior to the deadline. Note that extensions to the stated deadline will not be granted. Applications must include all of the following documentation in order to be considered complete:
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Provost’s Office | 5 | Online application system closes. |
COE Faculty Affairs and & Provost’s Office | 6 | Review each applicant's materials and confirms confirm their eligibility in the application system. |
Department chair | 7 | Receive an email notification that applicants are awaiting their review. Only materials from eligible applicants will be made available. |
8 | Review applications online and makes recommendations. | |
COE FDL review committee | 9 | Review applications based on APS and COE policies, and sends recommendations to Dean. |
Dean | 10 | Review applications based on COE FDA committee recommendations, and forwards final recommendations to Provost's Office. |
Provost’s Office | 11 | Review Dean's recommendations and makes final decisions according to CSU allotment. Notifies applicants of their decision. |
Processes for awardees
To accept the FDA
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A report template is available at EVPP: Faculty Development Award for Professional-Track Faculty > "FDA Award Report." Failure to submit the report by the deadline will make the faculty member ineligible to receive another future FDA.
Information for administrative staff
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In COE, FDAs taken as summer salary will be processed by the faculty member's primary department, funded by an account designated by the Dean's Office. For 9-month faculty, this will be processed as a summer Additional Job (non-teaching) in Workday, funded by an account designated by the Dean's Office. For 12-month faculty, this will be processed either as a temporary increase in SWH for faculty appointed at fewer than 40 SWH, or as a temporary costing allocation change for faculty already appointed at 40 SWH. Upload a copy of the signed FDA acceptance form to the Workday Business Process, and in the comments, add "Approved FDA."
APS will record FDAs in the faculty member's Workday profile. Go to "Academic" > "Current Appointments." In the "Identifier" column, look for FD (Faculty Development). "Track Type" will be FDA (Faculty Development Award).
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Please send suggested additions to this page and notifications about broken links to COE-FacultyAffairs@austin.utexas.edu.
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