Ogontz ’65 Career Development Professorship
A newly-endowed Career Development Professorship was awarded for the first time in the Spring Semester of 2003 to Bonnie Levinthal, then Assistant Professor of Art, for the second time in Spring Semester 2005 to Lonnie Golden, then Associate Professor of Economics, and for the third time in Spring Semester 2007 to Ann Schmiedekamp, Associate Professor of Physics. The Career Development Professorship is designed to advance the career of tenured or tenure-track faculty members at the Abington College by providing financial support (approximately $12,000 per year) for a period of two years. The Career Development Professorship will be available on a competitive basis to tenured or tenure-track faculty in all disciplines. Applications will be reviewed by the Faculty Review Committee who will make their recommendations to the Chancellor and the Associate Dean. The Chancellor will, in turn, make a recommendation to the Provost, who has final authority to approve the award.
Terms of the Career Development Professorship
The Career Development Professorship will be awarded for a period of two years. During that period, funds may be used to support travel, equipment, release time, summer salary, research assistants, survey expenses, conference and seminar fees. The Career Development Professor will be asked to submit a yearly report on the use of the award funds and the progress of his/her research agenda. Documentation of submission of the research to refereed journals, publishers, and/or external funding sources is expected as part of the reports. The Career Development Professor may not hold a concurrent financial award from the college during the two-year term.
Application Procedure
Faculty who wish to apply for the Career Development Professorship should prepare an application packet that includes a cover sheet and proposal, double-spaced and no longer
than 5 pages. The proposal outlining the research agenda must include:
- a time line
- a tentative budget
- an explanation of the project,
- a description of how the project fits with the applicant’s long-term research and teaching agenda
- details about when and where the research will be conducted
- information concerning the applicant’s pursuit of external funds in support of the project and/or plans to seek external funding in the future
- when appropriate, indication of any overlap between the award period and a planned sabbatical leave
Decision Criteria
Criteria for reviewing the proposals and making the final recommendations are based on the purpose of the award: to advance the career of a tenured or tenure-track faculty member at the Abington College. The review committee and the Chancellor and Associate Dean will use the following criteria to determine which proposal will best promote the college by advancing the career of a faculty member: purpose of the project and relevance of the project to the proposer’s career, framework and rationale, methodology, reasonableness of the time line, projected outcomes, and measures for determining success. Preference will be given to proposals which demonstrate the integration of the applicant’s research with effectiveness in teaching.
Application Deadline
Proposals must be submitted (either in hardcopy or electronic format) to the Office of the Chancellor.
