Grants for Faculty

Sunshine Fund grants are for SUNY Broome faculty, full and part-time.

Awards are subject to the availability of funds and the number of applications received.  The Professional Development at SUNY Broome utilizes a rubric process for scoring submissions and considerations described below in making decisions concerning the allocation of funds.

Please review the  following forms:

1. Sunshine Fund Grant Guidelines and Application (pdf).
2. Complete a Project Concept Form (docx).
   a. Identify and document the issue/problem/concern your idea addresses.
   b. Propose a solution and implementation process.
   c. Identify the academic and strategic goal the project will address.
3. Sunshine Fund Grant Rubric (docx) (for informational purposes only).
4. Complete a Project Expense Form (docx).
   a. Submit a Travel Form (pdf), if applicable.
5. Email the completed Project Concept Form and the Project Expense Form, including all necessary signatures, to professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu.
6. For questions about how to fill out the forms, email us professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu.

When making decisions concerning the allocation of funds, Professional Development at SUNY Broome takes numerous factors into consideration, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Projects that support academic and strategic initiatives (See SUNY Broome Strategic Plans).
• Promotes a level of interdisciplinary and/or community agency/organization collaboration.
• Brings innovation new to campus or to area/division; and/or, results in innovative teaching methods.
• Promotes a cross-disciplinary approach to teaching.
• The number of SUNY Broome students and/or faculty impacted (or potentially impacted) by project.
• The project’s impact on the learning experience of SUNY Broome students.
• Projects that will have impact(s) extending beyond the project timeline/grant cycle.
• Projects that are easily transferred or expanded beyond the pilot to other students, classrooms and/or areas of campus.
• Projects where the budget clearly corresponds to the project concept form.
• Projects not typically funded through PDAP or departmental operational funds.
• Projects considered to be above and beyond the course development and/or other responsibilities expected as part of the faculty role.
• Projects that have measurable outcomes that address specific Institutional and Course Learning Outcomes (ILOs and CLOs).
• Projects where technology requests are supported within the current IT support structure or have approval of the IT department.
• Projects that do not have continuing costs or have continuing costs supported by other sources.
• Completed applications received by the announced deadline will receive full consideration.

Full and part-time teaching and non-classroom faculty who have a project that impacts teaching and learning will receive equal consideration for teaching grant funding.

The following strategies may be used when allocating limited funds:

• Reduce the maximum awarded to a project.
• Fund selected initiatives based on the above and other considerations.  This implies that not all initiatives may be funded.

1. Implement and track the project solution.
2. Email a report detailing project outcomes to professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu.
3. Purchase orders for supplies, software, and/or travel are handled through the Teaching Resource Center (contact x5611 or professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu).

Full and part-time teaching and non-classroom faculty who have a project that impacts teaching and learning.

1. Review the Teaching Grant Overview and Guidelines (docx)
2. Complete the Teaching Grant Application Form (docx)
3. Complete the Project Expense Form (docx)
4. Review the Teaching Grant Rubric (docx) (for informational purposes only)

Email the completed Application and the Project Expense Sheet, including all necessary signatures, to professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu by the date listed above.

When making decisions concerning the allocation of funds, numerous factors are taken into consideration, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Teaching Grant projects directly support academic and SUNY Broome Strategic Planning initiatives.
• Innovation is new to the campus or to the area/division.
• Completed applications received by the announced deadline will receive full consideration.
• The number of students and/or faculty impacted, or potentially impacted, by the project.
• Outlines the current challenge, deficit or situation the project will address and how it will be mitigated.
• Projects that relate to a professional development priority
• Projects that will have an impact that extends beyond the project timeline/grant cycle.
• Projects that are easily transferred or expanded beyond the pilot to other students, classrooms, and/or areas of campus.
• Projects for which the budget clearly corresponds to the project concept form.
• Projects not typically funded through PDAP or departmental operational funds.
• Projects considered to be above and beyond course development or other responsibilities expected as part of the faculty role.
• Projects that have measurable outcomes.
• Projects for which funding is requested for supplies and equipment.
• Projects for which technology requests are supported within the current IT support structure or have approval of the IT department.
• Projects that do not have continuing costs, or have continuing costs supported by other sources.

Full and part-time teaching and non-classroom faculty who have a project that impacts teaching and learning will receive equal consideration for teaching grant funding.

The following strategies may be used when allocating limited funds:

• Reduce the maximum awarded to a project.
• Fund selected initiatives based on the above and other considerations.  This implies that not all initiatives may be funded.

1. Implement and track the project solution by the completion date stated above.
2. Email a report detailing project outcomes to professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu by the due date stated above.
3. Purchase orders for supplies, software, and/or travel are handled through the Teaching Resource Center (contact x5611 or professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu).