Welcome to Valley City State's Academic Professional Development Website.

The Purpose of the website is to provide access, information, and continuity to academic professional development activities. This includes the following Development activities.

This website provides information on applying for mini-grants or reimbursement for various professional development travel practices. The Faculty Development Committee (FDC) reviews applications in this area unless otherwise indicated. Travel covered by this site included Conference Presentations, Conference Attendance, Doctoral Travel and Other Academic Business Travel.

Faculty or staff planning academic or campus related research that will be presented or submitted for published may apply for money to support the research activity. The Faculty Development Committee (FDC) reviews applications in this area unless otherwise indicated.

The purpose of the Instructional Technology Innovation (ITI) Mini-Grant Program is to foster and support educational technology innovation at VCSU. Supported primarily through student technology fees, this program funds projects intended to improve student learning via the application of innovative and meaningful instructional technology.