Summer 2009 Grants Fellowships
Summer Grants Fellowships (SGF) for the purpose of writing a grant to extramural funding agencies will be offered on a competitive basis to tenure-line faculty members and non-tenure-line faculty with a record of refereed publications and active research while at Penn State Abington. Upon its completion, the grant proposal is to be submitted to at least two separate external funding agencies by the fellowship recipient.
Preference will be given to the following full-time faculty, although others may also apply: (1) current untenured faculty in the tenure process; (2) tenured faculty who have successfully completed a project with external funding; (3) faculty who propose a project that will result in interdisciplinary research collaborations or interdisciplinary curricular innovations with faculty in other programs, departments, or divisions; (4) non-tenure line faculty as funds permit, especially for proposals that address category 3.
Terms of Fellowship: The fellowship will be awarded for summer work on a grant proposal. Fellowship recipients are not permitted to teach in the summer for extra compensation. The fellowship recipient is expected to submit a report within two months of completion of the fellowship period, and no later than November 1. Documentation of submission of the grant proposal to at least two external funding agencies is expected as part of this report.
Fellowship Award: The Summer Grant Fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000. In the case of an interdisciplinary research or curriculum award shared by more than one individual, awardees will share the $4000, and those awardees are eligible to apply for an SGF in subsequent years. Where the SGF is awarded to a single recipient, that individual may apply for Summer Grant Fellowships only once every 3 years, such that an individual awardee may not apply again for a period of two years after receiving an SGF, apart from exceptional cases as determined by the Dean, Associate Dean, and the Faculty Review Committee.
Application Guidelines: Applications will be reviewed by the Faculty Review Committee and recommendations will be forwarded to the Dean and Associate Dean who will make the final decision. The SGF application packet will be available in the Office of Academic Affairs at the beginning of the spring semester. A completed SGF application must include: 1) a cover sheet, 2) a description of the grant project indicating all resources and work involved and a description of the external agencies to which the grant will be submitted (double-spaced and no longer than 5 pages, and 3) a current curriculum vitae that includes a list of refereed publications.
Evaluation Criteria: The following criteria will be used to review the proposals: description of the grant proposal, relevance of the proposal, framework and rationale, methodology, and projected outcomes. The clarity and completeness 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.