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- Faculty Exchange Relocation Grants
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Faculty Exchange Relocation Grants
| description: | Relocation grants aid Miami faculty who wish to exchange with someone from any institution, government agency, etc. A national online database enables you to register your exchange plan and to search for a matching partner. |
| amount: | Miami maintains your salary and fringe benefits. In addition, a lump-sum payment of $1,000 is available to cover your relocation costs for one semester or $2,000 for two semesters. |
| eligibility: | The exchange does not always have to be reciprocal; for example, a physicist may not have to exchange with another physicist. An individual may receive a relocation grant only once in any 36-month period. |
| selection: | Exchanges, including agreement about work assignments, work space, etc., must be approved by your department chair and dean. |
| submission: | For more information, contact Milt Cox, CELTUA, or call ext. 9-9266. |
| due date: | Applications for grants to use in 2009-10 are due October 15, 2009. |
Purpose and Description
CELTUA encourages you to explore exchange opportunities. The results of working in a new environment vary considerably. There is the nebulous, but real, personal growth and renewal that comes from planning and making changes in your normal routine and setting. You may face new challenges and stimuli while away from familiar faces and tasks. The experience often produces added energy, revitalization, changes in perspective, new ideas, and a sense of accomplishment.
Exchange may offer you the opportunity to teach new courses, learn new skills, and establish new professional contacts. Because you are not likely to be involved in committee work, academic advising, or extensive university service, you may be freer to pursue teaching, research, and other learning options than you are on your own campus.
Increased knowledge comes from the interchange of ideas with new colleagues and from new library and research opportunities. In addition, there may be a chance to teach or develop new courses; to examine different approaches to solving problems; to observe new technologies; to interact with different student populations; to observe varied administrative settings; and to experience different programs, curricula, educational philosophies, and services.
Recipients must agree to submit a one-page report upon the completion of the exchange, or no later than the beginning of the next academic year, describing the exchange and how it improved their teaching.
Eligibility
All Miami faculty are eligible for exchange.
Exchange Guidelines
- The exchange may be between Miami University and any institution, including industrial firms, secondary schools, government agencies, universities, etc. The exchange need not involve, for example, an economist for an economist, but could involve an economist for a physicist, if offsetting shifts can be made by each institution to the satisfaction of all parties. Multilateral exchanges also are permitted.
- Departments and divisions of the institutions concerned must approve appointments of faculty being exchanged.
- Work assignments, office space, etc., must be determined by the host institution and agreed to by all parties in advance of the exchange.
- The home institution maintains all salary and fringe benefits. Each individual is paid as if he or she is teaching at the home campus. All rights to leaves, accumulated time toward a promotion, etc., continue uninterrupted.
- The exchanged Miami faculty member may apply for a relocation grant: a lump sum of $1,000 for a one-semester exchange and $2,000 for a two-semester exchange to cover out-of-pocket added expenses (receipts required). The amount is halved if the exchange involves commuting instead of relocation. This sum anticipates all transportation costs unless relocation is out of the country, in which case an add-on travel supplement of $100 for every 1,000 miles (one way) or fraction thereof is paid (this applies to one- or two-semester exchanges). In the instance where relocation costs are less than the lump sum provided, the remainder of the allowance is subject to federal income tax.
- A Miami faculty member may be awarded the above lump-sum payment only once in any 36-month period. This will allow the maximum number of individuals to take advantage of exchange opportunities.
- During the exchange period, travel expenses to professional meetings, etc., will be paid by the home institution when approved by the chair of the home department.
- The exchanged individual will (1) retain academic rank, (2) be assigned by his or her host institution, and (3) be designated as visiting professor, visiting assistant professor, etc., at the host institution.