The Faculty and Academic Staff Development Board has several responsibilities across the University of Wisconsin-River Falls campus:

• Promotes, fosters, and supports faculty and academic staff development on the UWRF campus

• Makes decisions regarding the allocation of the faculty and academic staff professional development awards and informs Faculty Senate, Academic Staff Council and Provost/Vice Chancellor of those decisions

• Monitors faculty and academic staff development program budgets and administration procedures

• Drafts changes in faculty and academic staff development program policy and gains approval for changes through UWRF Faculty Senate

• Organizes faculty and academic staff development program evaluation efforts

• Offers consultation to individual faculty and academic staff members regarding their ideas and possible components appropriate to their ideas, appropriate sources of funding, improving denied requests to better assure future funding 

• Determines membership and overseas operation of the five standing committees

• Solicits additional reviewers from the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the Academic Staff Council to assist in the evaluation of proposals as needed

• Serves as liaison with UW-System Office of Professional and Instructional Development 

• Oversees the UWRF mentoring program