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Scholarly & Creative Activity Summer Award
Program Description
The College of Arts and Letters is pleased to offer a summer Scholarly & Creative Activity Awards opportunity for probationary faculty during the 2024 summer intersession. This award offers one-time additional employment to support faculty contributions to their disciplines through research, scholarly, and creative activity. Recipients must commit to producing a deliverable such as an article, book chapter, grant proposal, or new work of art (e.g., visual, musical, literary, performative, or curatorial), by Monday, August 19, 2024. Projects must align with the faculty member’s current Faculty Development Plan. Faculty awardees are expected to devote their productive time to working on their project.
Eligibility
All faculty who are in probationary status during the Spring 2024 semester and are appointed in any of the departments within Arts & Letters are eligible to apply.
Summer teaching may not overlap with full-time project work.
Funding Priorities
Projects must align with the faculty member’s current Faculty Development Plan.
Priority will be given to proposals that:
- Complete an established project
- Launch a new direction in scholarship/creativity
- Provide seed funding for external grant applications
For proposals for seed funding, among the required deliverables is a complete, vetted, and submitted grant application to an external funding/granting agency. This will require collaboration with the Dean’s Office and ORIED.
What can be funded?
The Dean’s Office will administer the program on behalf of the College. Faculty awardees will receive additional employment funds up to the amount of $5,000 upon completion of the project and submission of the identified deliverables and grant report.
Projects that require additional funding to undertake must be funded independently. This award does not provide funding to cover project-related costs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: College of Arts & Letters Scholarly & Creative Activity Summer Awards are considered “additional employment.” Thus, the award will count toward the faculty’s annual teaching limit of 125%, so both accepting this award and teaching during summer/winter intercession may exceed that limit.
Deadlines
Proposals were due via Qualtrics Survey by 5pm on Wednesday, May 29th. Applicants must obtain proposal approval from their Department Chair.
The submission period for 2023-24 is now closed.
Project Deliverables are due Monday, August 19, 2024.
Application Instructions
Complete the Qualtrics application form and attach your current/most recent faculty
development plan by 5pm Wednesday, May 29th. This is now closed.
Application Check List
- Completed Qualtrics Application
- Attached current faculty development plan
- Establish Project Costs, If any
- Submitted by 5 pm Monday, May 29, 2024
Awardees of Summer Scholarly Activities
Congratulations to the Awardees!
College of Arts & Letters Summer Scholarly Awards 2023-24
Past Awardees: