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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:56.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#004065;text-transform:uppercase">Call For Proposals For 2018-2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#8D8D8D;text-transform:uppercase">Deadline to submit proposal - December 1, 2017 by 4:30 p.m.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#8D8D8D;text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#8D8D8D;text-transform:uppercase">(If the date falls on a weekend, the due date will be the following Monday by 4:30 p.m.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:din;color:#575757">Faculty Development Leave for research and writing is a method used to enhance university instruction and research. In 1967,
the Texas legislature recognized the importance of faculty development leave, adopted legislation, and set forth guidelines for the awarding of development leaves. The Texas legislature suggests these programs be designed to assist teaching and other academic
professionals to develop and pursue worthy academic research that required significant time and the absences of distractions. Faculty Development Leaves are subject to the laws of the State of Texas and to TAMU System policies and regulations. System Policy
12.99.01 or A&M-Commerce Procedure A12.99.01. <a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/aboutUs/policiesProceduresStandardsStatements/rulesProcedures/12faculty/12.99.01.R0.01FacultyDevelopmentLeave.pdf">
http://www.tamuc.edu/aboutUs/policiesProceduresStandardsStatements/rulesProcedures/12faculty/12.99.01.R0.01FacultyDevelopmentLeave.pdf</a>
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<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:din;color:#575757">The Faculty Development Committee invites all full-time faculty members (1) whose full-time duties, as contractually specified, are teaching and/or research and (2) who
have served as members of the faculty of A&M-Commerce for a minimum of two consecutive, full-time academic years to apply for a Faculty Development Leave for the 2018-2019 academic year (fall semester at full pay, spring semester at full pay, or fall and spring
semesters at half-pay). A copy of this Call for Proposals; an explanation of the Faculty Development Leave Criteria, Procedures, and Funding; the Faculty Development Leave Application Form; the Faculty Development Leave Policy; and the Faculty Development
Leave Legal Agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:din;color:#575757">Completed application packets must be submitted to Sharon Crump in the Provost Office, McDowell Business Administration Building, Room 280.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:din;color:#575757">Completed application packets must include (1) the Faculty Development Application Form (available from web site); (2) an explanation of your Faculty Development Leave
project (including an abstract, project description, timeline, and bibliographic or background sources); and, (3) a current vita.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:din;color:#575757">The deadline for submitting proposals to the Provost Office is December 1, 2017, at 4:30 p.m.</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:din;color:#575757"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:din;color:#575757">The Faculty Development Leave program at Texas A&M University-Commerce is designed to assist professionals in teaching and other academic areas to develop and pursue
worthy academic study, research, writing, field observation, or other suitable purposes that require significant time and the absence of distractions. Faculty Development Laws are subject to the laws of the State of Texas and to the regulations and rules of
the Texas A&M University System.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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