i. institutional support and commitment to continuous improvement

I. Institutional Support and Commitment to Continuous Improvement
d) Faculty enrichment grant
Faculty Enrichment Grants are awarded to full- and part-time faculty to support profes-
sional activities, conferences, residencies, travel, and project development. Selections are
determined from proposals reviewed by members of the Academic Steering Committee that
include elected faculty and deans. Priority consideration is given to faculty on sabbatical or
paid leave and faculty who have not received grants within the prior two-year period. The
committee especially supports requests for projects that have a commitment for an exhibi-
tion or other end result.
For 2010-11, forty faculty members were awarded grants ranging from $500 to $5,000 to
support exhibitions, publications, research, study, travel, and exchange programs. Awards
related to AIADO included funding of a book project with the working title “Sites of Learning:
Architecture and the Educational Experience 1847-1917” by an architectural design historian
(Mah). Nereim received funds in support of sabbatical research on European cities. Other
department-specific requests were referred to the department for their discrete travel and
research budget.
e) Travel and research funding
Faculty travel, research, and projects are also supported by discretionay funds of the Dean as
well as those within the Department. In the past five years (since 2006–07), 13 AIADO faculty
have received a total of $103,800 to directly support travel, research, equipment purchases,
and relocation expenses. Through departmental funds, seventeen AIADO faculty were award-
ed a total of $27,000 toward travel and fees to attend conferences including: Design History
Society Conference (Atha); Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design (Coleman); ACSA -
New Orleans (Grimes); Common Ground Publishing Conference (Keane); Architecture for Hu-
manity Conference, Singapore (Kong); Vernacular Architectural Forum in Washington (Mah);
ACADIA (Nereim); Labyrinth Society Conference, Portland OR (Nicholson); ACSA Adminis-
trators Conference (Pancoast); Urban Age Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (Reynders); Design
Principles at UIC (Nugent); Lightfair International (Nugent); IDSA conference (Nugent); and
Designers Accord Conference, San Francisco, CA (Tharp). Additional monies were awarded
for research, travel associated with sabbaticals and study trips. One student’s attendance at
the IDSA conference was supported as well.
f) Residencies
Since 2000, over 250 faculty and staff have completed residencies in New Buffalo, Michi-
gan; Krems, Austria; and the former program in Catskill, New York. SAIC’s artist-in-residency
programs support and encourage the creative renewal and professional development of its
full- and part-time faculty as well as its full-time staff who are artists, designers, writers, and
scholars.
Priority consideration is given to applicants who have actively contributed to the School
community, and who propose to complete a specific project or produce new works that have
relevance to the region or site. Summer residencies in Austria are open to all faculty and full-
time staff. New Buffalo summer residencies are awarded to full-time faculty, while sabbatical
faculty, part-time faculty, faculty with flexible schedules, and full-time staff are scheduled
during fall, winter and spring.
o New Buffalo Residency Program
Artist, alumnus and benefactor Roger Brown’s partner, architect George Veronda de-
signed the modernist glass and steel structure and its furnishings in 1979 as a showcase
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SECTION I Institutional Support and Commitment to Continuous Improvement