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Preamble: As per the UA agreement, the department receives an allocation of professional development funds (PDF) that is based on the count of eligible faculty members and is intended to "support faculty travel for professional development or for use in other professional development activities." These funds are not intended to be distributed equally; rather, they constitute a pool of resources whose distribution will provide the maximal collective benefit to the department through the support of merited individual needs. This document discusses the criteria and procedures for distribution of these funds.