Six proposals for the 2019 Professional Development Grants for Retirees (PDGR) were submitted by the December 14 deadline. The number is below our recent average, but the proposals submitted represent a nice cross-section of colleges and departments.
The review process comes next and the approved proposals will be announced in March. The financial support provided by the grants (up to $5,000 each) is for the period April 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, and may be used to fund travel, stipends for research assistants, the purchase of books, computer hardware and software, and other relevant costs of scholarship.
The members of the UMRA Grants Committee will conduct the review of the new proposals with an eye on the professional development value of each.