{"id":28245,"date":"2026-10-21T08:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:28:33","slug":"non-instructional-faculty-assignment-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2026\/academics\/non-instructional-faculty-assignment-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Instructional Faculty Assignment-NOW OPEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Instructional Faculty Assignments 2027-28 &#8211; Call for Submissions<\/p>\n<p>Non-Instructional Faculty Assignments (NIFA) applications are open. NIFA are designed to contribute to the professional growth of faculty; improve teaching and curricula across the University; and\/or enhance the scholarship and academic excellence of Tennessee Tech.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Important Dates:<\/p>\n<p>January 8, 2027 \u2013 Proposals due to Department Chairs\/Directors<\/p>\n<p>January 22, 2027 \u2013 Proposals due to Academic Affairs<\/p>\n<p>February 12, 2027 \u2013 Recipients and Chairs notified of awards.<\/p>\n<p>Details and submissions at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/handbooks\/faculty\/noninstructionalassignments.php\">tntech.edu\/handbooks\/faculty\/noninstructionalassignments.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Instructional Faculty Assignments 2027-28 &#8211; Call for Submissions Non-Instructional Faculty Assignments (NIFA) applications are open. NIFA are designed to contribute to the professional growth of faculty; improve teaching and curricula across the University; and\/or enhance the scholarship and academic excellence of Tennessee Tech. &nbsp; Important Dates: January 8, 2027 \u2013 Proposals due to Department Chairs\/Directors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,24],"class_list":["post-28245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","tag-facstaff","tag-rs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/10\/2026-10-20_6ad7cc4776b33_NowOpen.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions\/28256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}