Anne Mayhew reported on changes in the Grad School Professional Development program.
Grants are no longer available to support summer stipends.
Contingent employees are no longer eligible to apply for awards. Beginning this year, proposals may be submitted throughout the year, with no one deadline. Awards will be announced in the middle of each month. This category should be especially useful to faculty members whose scholarly careers have been languishing. The grad school would arrange for a teacher to be hired through the Modern Foreign Language Department, so that the teacher could receive benefits.