Faculty Career Development and Regents' Fellowships
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The call for applications is issued by the office of the Executive Vice Chancellor in October. Faculty Career Development Award (FCDA)The FCDA is a program for non-tenured faculty who, because of the nature of their position or their role in campus affairs, have encountered significant obstacles in pursuit of their research, creative work, teaching, service, or mentoring obligations, or who have made unusually time-consuming efforts in helping to achieve campus diversity.The purpose of the program is to help junior faculty members develop a substantial record in research necessary for advancement to tenure. Non-tenured faculty members are eligible for a maximum of two awards in different years. An applicant who receives tenure or security of employment during the award period is no longer eligible. Past recipients of the FCDA must submit a report of the work accomplished in order to be considered for a new award. Eligibility: Assistant Professors and Lecturers PSOE. Award: Up to $7,500 is available in course replacement funds or summer research salary. Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship (RJFF)The purpose of the RJFF program is to help junior faculty members develop a substantial record in research and creative work necessary for advancement to tenure. Non-tenured faculty members are eligible for only one RJFF award. Applications may be submitted by faculty members who are currently under review for tenure or security of employment. However, an applicant who is subsequently awarded tenure or security of employment is no longer eligible.Eligibility: Assistant Professors and Lecturers PSOE. Award: Up to $7,500 is available in course replacement funds or summer research salary. Regents' Humanities Faculty Fellowship (RHFF)The purpose of the RHFF program is to encourage and facilitate research, advanced or independent study, or improvement of teaching effectiveness in the humanities. Faculty members may receive only one award. Eligible areas include studies in language, both modern and classical; religion; literature; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; the history, criticism and theory of the arts, aspects of history, linguistics and the social sciences that have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the creative arts, painters, sculptors, composers, writers, poets, stage designers, performers, and other artists in creative fields. Eligibility: Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Lecturers SOE. Award: Up to $7,500 is available in course replacement funds or summer research salary.
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