PROF Center

The PROF Center Faculty Professional Development Award provides direct financial support to help faculty pursue professional development opportunities that matter to them whether you want to strengthen a current skill or develop new ones within teaching, research, or leadership.

This award recognizes that professional growth is a journey. Whether you're building on existing strengths or addressing skill gaps, the PROF Center is here to support your commitment to continuous improvement.

For this award, the PROF Center has 3 purposes:

• Support each faculty's professional growth to improve teaching effectiveness, deepen research expertise, or build leadership skills.
• It aims to remove financial barriers that prevent you from growing professionally.
• Encourage a stronger TAMIU faculty collectively by investing in faculty who are motivated in improving themselves.

Award Cycle

One faculty member will be selected each Fall, Spring, and Summer semester to receive this award. There will be differing deadlines for each cycle/semester.

Recipients can receive up to $750.00.

Eligibility

• Tenured and tenure-track faculty may propose leadership, research, or teaching development.
• Fixed-term faculty may propose leadership or teaching development.
• Faculty who have previously received a PROF Center Faculty Development Award are re-eligible after 2 years.

Examples include a leadership cohort, facilitated writing retreat, research or grant development workshop, or intensive teaching program.

Conference attendance or presentation is not eligible.

Required Documents

1. The application fully completed
2. Current CV (3 pages maximum)
3. Program description or link showing the provider, activities, dates, and cost. If details have not been published, provide the best available information.

Thank you for your interest in the Faculty Professional Development Award. Any questions, please email the PROF Center Director, Dr. Cynthia L. Sosa (cynthia.sosa@tamiu.edu).

Deadlines

Application opens: Thursday, October 1, 2026

Application closes: Friday, October 9, 2026

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