Presidential Initiatives

The President's Fund for Faculty Advancement

The President's Fund for Faculty Advancement seeks to provide faculty with the resources they need to publish or obtain external funding for their research or creative work. Program announcements and guidelines will be distributed in the fall semester.

Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology (FITT)

Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology seeks to encourage the use of technology in the classroom and to increase student engagement by encouraging faculty to design projects that take advantage of new digital tools for content creation, simulation, animation, video, online collaboration, distance learning, and incorporation of mobile media devices.

Presidential Travel Award Program

The Presidential Travel Grant Award Program supports faculty participation in conferences and other research-related travel. For program announcement, guidelines and deadlines click here.

Hunter Travel Award

The Hunter Travel Award Program supports participation in professional conferences. This program is open to all Hunter employees recognized in the PSC-CUNY contract. Funds are available for travel completed August 27, 2019 - August 31, 2020. Applications are due no later than November 1, 2019. Decisions are expected on or about March 16, 2020. Please use only this online form; no paper forms will be considered.

Presidential Student Engagement Initiatives

Information on various presidential initiatives that encourages and supports student engagement with faculty.