Summer Faculty Fellowships (SFF)
Summer Faculty Fellowships are offered each summer on a competitive basis to standing full-time faculty at Penn State Abington. Preference is given to the following full-time faculty, although others may also apply: (1) currently untenured faculty in the tenure process; (2) faculty who can demonstrate that they are actively pursuing external funding for the project under review and/or for related projects; (3) faculty who have successfully completed an FDG-funded research project, with resulting publication, conference presentations, or external funding; 4) faculty who propose a project that will result in interdisciplinary research collaborations or interdisciplinary curricular innovations with faculty in other programs, departments, or divisions.
Terms of the Fellowship: The fellowship will be awarded for a period of 6 weeks of full-time summer work on a given project. The fellow is expected to submit a report within two months of completion of the fellowship period, and no later than November 1 of the fellowship year. Documentation of submission of the research to refereed journals, publishers, and/or external funding agencies is expected as part of this report.
Fellowship Award: Each Summer Faculty Fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000, and up to three awards will be distributed each year. In the case of an interdisciplinary research or curriculum award shared by more than one individual, each awardee will receive $2000, and those awardees are eligible to apply for an SFF in subsequent years. For other cases, individuals may apply for Summer Faculty Fellowships only once every 3 years, such that an individual awardee may not apply again for a period of two years after receiving an SFF, apart from exceptional cases as determined by the Chancellor, Associate Dean, and the Faculty Review Committee.
Application Guidelines: Applications will be reviewed by the Faculty Review Committee. The chair of the Faculty Review Committee will make recommendations to Chancellor and Associate Dean who will make the final decision on awards. The application packet, available in the Office of Academic Affairs, includes a cover sheet to be completed and attached to the proposal, which should be double-spaced and no longer than 5 pages. The following criteria will be used to review the proposals: purpose of the project, relevance of the project, framework and rationale, methodology, and projected outcomes. The clarity and completeness of the submission in terms of each of these five criteria will determine the quality of the proposal.
Application Deadline: Proposals must be submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by February 15.
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