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Opportunities for Faculty Members
The Faculty Research Pool is for the remuneration of minor expenses related to research and publication. Tenure track and continuing faculty may claim up to $200 per year. Full professors holding named chairs may have larger research pools. Nona Smith, Director of Sponsored Research, administers the fund.
College research grants provide support for larger research projects. Faculty members are encouraged to apply to the Faculty Committee on Awards and Grants and compete for the $50,000 available for faculty support. The Committee reviews all proposals and makes recommendations to the Provost, who makes the final decisions. To apply for a grant, submit to the Grants Office by early February the following:
- the grant application form;
- seven copies of the following:
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a one-page description of the research project, including justification of need and plans for publication,
- a current curriculum vitae,
- a detailed budget and timetable,
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a reference to any proposals submitted to outside agencies for this project.<
The maximum request is $5,000, but the Committee expects the majority of awards to be substantially less than this amount in order to distribute the limited funds available as widely as possible. See the Grants website for more detailed information and guidelines. Click for a list of recent awardees and their projects.
Leave support: Tenure track and tenured members of the faculty are eligible to apply for Junior Faculty Research Leaves and for sabbatical leaves. Continuing non-tenure track faculty are eligible for professional development leave support. Consult the Handbook for Faculty for details on these programs.
Travel to conferences: The College supports travel to conferences on the part of tenured, tenure track and continuing members of the faculty. Support is given for faculty who deliver papers, chair a session, provide invited comments and sit on the boards of professional associations. Individuals may claim
up to $1,000 a year. Junior tenure track faculty may claim up to
$1,200 and may ask for remuneration for expenses incurred at a
meeting in which they do not appear on the program. For further
details, check the guidelines on the
faculty travel pool.
Course development and research support
Special funding is available for developing courses, supporting teaching and research.
- Curriculum Development Fund: The Office of the Provost offers support for curriculum development. Curriculum development support is directed towards those departments not already aided by outside grants. Funding is available on a competitive basis. Projects need not be focused on the use of new technologies, although that is the preference. For more information, check the Curriculum Development support website.
Departments eager to develop or enhance their websites are encouraged to seek the assistance of a member of the Instructional Technology Team. Students who have been trained in web-authoring tools are available to assist members of the faculty. See elsewhere.
- Praxis is Bryn Mawr's experiential, community-based learning program. Built on the College's strong tradition of community involvement and civic engagement, the Praxis Program sets forth consistent, equitable guidelines for courses that integrate intensive academic study with rigorous, relevant fieldwork. The structure of the Praxis Program emphasizes the curricular coherence of any field experience. The Praxis Council, a group of Bryn Mawr faculty, staff, and students, has designated three types of Praxis courses, Praxis I, II, and III, that are fully described at the Praxis website. The Praxis Program, through a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is able to offer course development support. These funds are principally targeted at continuing faculty members who wish to design courses that incorporate fieldwork and experiential learning or who wish to incorporate fieldwork into an existing course. Application procedures are available at the Praxis website.
- Each summer The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has invited the College to nominate a candidate for a New Directions Fellowship for systematic training outside one's own discipline. Fellows receive support to pursue a program of training in a discipline other than their own for approximately one academic year and two summers. Candidates must be newly tenured or within three years of consideration for tenure in the humanities and humanistic social sciences and thise whose research interests call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert. The College must nominate a candidate early in the fall.
For further information about this fellowships, contact the Provost's Office.
Updated May 2006
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