Personal Professional Development Account. In 2006-2007, funds will be allocated to departments as follows:
Personal Professional Development Account. Personal Professional Development Accounts are provided to enable faculty members to meet the expectation for reappointment, promotion and/or tenure. Approval for use of these funds is contingent upon the member demonstrating to the Chair how the proposed use supports activities described in the member’s approved Faculty Professional Activity Plan. Examples of possible uses for these funds are: professional travel, the purchase of equipment, software, instructional materials, use of consultants, release time for professional development and/or scholarly activity, professional society dues, books, journal subscriptions, and comparable activities that support teaching, course and curriculum development, academic advising, scholarship, services to the university, and service to the community. While these funds shall be held, on behalf of individual faculty members, in a single departmental account, no faculty member shall be constrained in his/her expenditure by the department providing such expenditures are consistent with the purpose of this section. In the event that the appropriateness of a given expenditure is questioned at the departmental level, the matter shall be referred to the xxxx for resolution. Where colleagues agree to do so, monies may be pooled for purposes compatible with the intent of this section. On September 16, 2007, each academic department will be allocated funds to be held in a separate department account that provide $750 per full-time member, including those on sabbatical leave, and pro-rated by FTE for part- time members, as a Personal Professional Development Account (PPDA). On September 16, 2008, each academic department will be allocated funds to be held in a separate department account that provide $750 per full-time professional faculty member with an ongoing appointment and $1250 per full-time professorial faculty member with an ongoing appointment members as a Personal Professional Development Account (PPDA). Faculty holding temporary appointments will not be allocated funds. Faculty members on sabbatical leave are eligible and funds are pro-rated by FTE for ongoing part-time faculty. Durable goods purchased with these funds shall be the property of Southern Oregon University. Each PPDA recipient shall write a report detailing the expenditures from this account and attach it to their Professional Activities Report. The monies in this account may be carried over for one year past the year in which they are appropriated.
