Uni Faculty 2017 Summer Fellowship

UNI FACULTY 2017 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP

Application Cover Sheet

APPLICATION DEADLINE - October 21, 2016

Check one: _____ 8-week Fellowship _____ 4-week Fellowship

For 8-week application: ____ Any or check two: ____ May ____ June ____ July

For 4-week application: ____ Any or check all months in which you could take a fellowship:

_____ May 4-week Fellowship

_____ June4-week Fellowship

_____ July 4-week Fellowship

Note: Please select “Any” above unless there is a month(s) in which you cannot accept a fellowship.

(Recipients may not have another assignment (teaching, grant work, etc.) during the period of their fellowship.)

Applicant ______

Academic Rank ______Year hired as full-time UNI faculty ______

Department ______Campus Mail Code ______

Title of Fellowship Project ______

______

Type of project (mark only one) _____ Research _____ Creative Activity _____ Grant Application

PROJECT ABSTRACT (brief summary of the project): Abstract must fit in the space below.

Signature of Applicant ______Date ______

Signature of Department Head ______Date ______

Signature of College Dean ______Date ______

UNI FACULTY SUMMER FELLOWSHIP GUIDELINES

Eligibility.

Faculty of the University of Northern Iowa, holding a full-time (9 month) tenured or tenure-track appointment at the time of application may apply for a Summer Fellowship. Through these awards, the University seeks to encourage, assist, and support faculty research, creative activity, and grant applications. Joint applications that are collaborative or interdisciplinary are eligible. One summer must elapse between successive Summer Fellowships.

Faculty Salary.

The 2017 Summer Fellowship provides a salary stipend of $6,735.00 for 8 weeks or $3,367.50 for 4 weeks. Recipients may not have another assignment (teaching, grant work, etc.) during the period of their Fellowship.

Application Procedure and Review Process.

Faculty must submit the following to the Graduate College by 5:00 p.m. on the deadline date:

∙ One paper copy of all application materials including signed cover sheet.
∙ PDF version of all application materials, except for the signed cover sheet,
to the Graduate College at .

Courtesy electronic copies should be sent to the appropriate department head, college dean, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at . Faculty may submit only one application. All submitted materials will be reviewed and evaluated by the Committee on University Research, ten faculty representing all academic colleges. Applicants will be notified in writing of the Committee decision by the end of the fall semester. Upon request, unsuccessful applicants will be provided with a summary of the reasons for the Committee's decision.

NOTE: A Human Participant Review Form must be filed and must receive approval from the UNI Institutional Review Board before the Summer Fellowship begins if the project involves human subjects, e.g., questionnaires, surveys, interviews, secondary data analysis. Allow at least fourteen days for the review process to be completed. Information and application forms are available at or by calling 273-6148. A copy of the IRB approval letter must either accompany the application or be submitted to the Graduate College before the Summer Fellowship period.

This is a highly competitive program open to all full time tenured and tenure track faculty. There are no quotas by college, department, new faculty, or senior scholar. The Master Agreement determines the number of Fellowships and the stipend.

APPLICATION COMPONENTS & EVALUATION CRITERIA

Summer Fellowship projects may be: 1) research, 2) creative activity, or 3) grant application.

Research project. (Items 3, 4, 5, and 6 limited to a total of 8 double-space pages)

1.Application cover sheet. Including an abstract and signatures.

2.Previous UNI awards. If you received a Summer Fellowship or Professional Development Leave/Assignment from the University of Northern Iowa in the past, prepare a statement that summarizes each project, including specific citations, and describes the final outcome; i.e., publication, exhibition.

3.Significance and objectives. What is the overall nature of the project? Specifically, what do you wish to accomplish? How does this project contribute to the scholarly discipline, your past research activity, and your career goals?

4.Methods and timetable. How will you accomplish the established objectives? What means will be used to evaluate completion of the objectives? Draw up a timetable that estimates your schedule during the Fellowship period.

5.Literature review. How does your project fit within the established scholarly literature? The citations must fit within the 8-page limit, but may be single-spaced.

6.Dissemination and long-range importance. Describe specific plans for sharing the results of your research through scholarly presentations and/or publication. How will you build upon the results of your Fellowship work? Are there sources of external funding to expand the project?

7.Current vita - eight page maximum (including all grant activity during the past five years related to the Fellowship project or funding sources being sought to support the project).

Creative activity project - art, creative writing, music, theatre. (Items 3, 4, 5, and 6 limited to a total of 8 double space pages)

1.Application cover sheet. Including an abstract and signatures.

3.Nature of the creative activity and its objectives. What do you wish to accomplish? If your activity is composed of several phases, how will you use the Fellowship period? How does this project contribute to the scholarly discipline and your past research activity?

5.Literature review. How does your project fit within the established scholarly literature? If a literature review is not relevant, explain why. The citations must fit within the 8-page limit, but may be single-spaced.

6.Dissemination and long-range importance. Describe specific plans to exhibit, perform, or publish the results of this activity? How will you build upon the results of your Fellowship work? Are there sources of external funding to expand the project?

7.Current vita - eight page maximum (including all grant activity during the past five years related to the Fellowship project or funding sources being sought to support the project).

Grant application (four week Fellowship ONLY, items 3 & 4 limited to 8 double-spaced pages).

Application cover sheet. Including an abstract and signatures.

Previous UNI awards. If you received a Summer Fellowship or Professional Development Leave/Assignment from the University of Northern Iowa in the past, prepare a statement that summarizes each project, including specific citations, and describes the final outcome; i.e., publication, exhibition.

Nature of the research or creative activity. Describe the scholarly activities you will pursue leading to submission of a grant application to a major federal or private funding agency (National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Education, etc.). Describe the interrelationship between a Summer Fellowship, the grant application, and your long range plans to publish, exhibit, or perform the results of your research or creative activity.

External funding source. Describe the specific grant(s) you will pursue during the Fellowship period, the funding agency, timetable for preparing and submitting the application. Submission of a grant application within six months of the Fellowship period is mandatory.

Current vita - eight page maximum. (Including any grant activity during the past five years related to the Fellowship project).

The following types of projects are not eligible for funding:

Professional training experiences, such as returning to graduate school or attending seminars, symposia, or professional meetings unless tied directly to the project.

2. Curriculum development that is judged to be of a routine nature and thus an expected part of teaching responsibilities; eligible curriculum projects must be publishable and have a demonstrated impact beyond the University of Northern Iowa.

3. Travel whose primary purpose is to broaden an individual perspective or to enhance classroom presentations.

If you have any questions pertaining to the Summer Fellowship program contact Barbara Cutter, Associate Dean in the Graduate College at 3-2748 .

TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL SUMMER FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION

The application should be concise and well-written, in language understandable to readers from diverse academic fields who may not be familiar with the scholarly literature, terminology, or details associated with your field of research or creative activity. The readability of the proposal--its prose quality and appearance--will affect the reader's response.

Letters of support, except for letters confirming acceptance of a manuscript or exhibition or confirming an arrangement for collaborating elsewhere are not appropriate to this fellowship competition and will be disregarded by the Committee.

Follow the format suggested in the Fellowship guidelines, including the specified page limits, and respond to each numbered part of the application format. Do not create your own format. Use 12 point type and normal margins. Proofread carefully. Number the pages.

Use the statements and questions in the numbered application sections as guides. The reviewers rate the application on how well it addresses the criteria, as well as on the project itself.

Document the successful completion of work proposed in previous UNI awards. The committee is interested in past success (publication, presentation, exhibition) before providing additional support. If no prior UNI Awards, include a statement to this effect rather than eliminating this section.

The application should carefully document the need for the research, creative activity, or grant application, and what impact the work will have on the scholarly field. The Significance & Objectives/Nature of the Project section (Item 3 in the Guidelines) is very important for the reviewers to understand the project and why it is important.

Be as precise as possible in describing the timetable for completion of the project. It is important to tie the work being proposed to the time frame of the Fellowship period; i.e. four weeks or eight weeks. If you are collaborating with others, your specific contributions to the project should be stated.

A literature review is required for Research & Creative Activity proposals, but should be focused on the background needed to understand how the project fits into the scholarly field. It does not have to be exhaustive.

Specificity is important in the Dissemination/Long Range Importance section or the External Funding Source section.

View the abstract as a brief advertisement for the project. Be complete but brief.

You may review examples of successful Summer Fellowship applications from previous years. These are available in the Graduate College (Lang Hall, Room 110). Please contact the Graduate College at 3-2748 to set up a time to review applications.

Follow-up Report:

Summer Fellowship recipients must prepare a written report describing the research, creative, or grant activities undertaken during the Fellowship period. The report will be submitted electronically as a Qualtrics survey (recipients will receive an email with a link to the Qualtrics survey in the first week of the fall semester. It will include the following narrative sections: 1) a 350 word (maximum) abstract that summarizes the project and its specific results, including a statement in which you specifically describe how your PDA work is of value to the University of Northern Iowa and benefits the citizens of Iowa. This could be specific classes or courses of study or outreach into the community.2) a one- or two-page narrative description of the project, major objectives accomplished, activities pursued, and the results, including publications, presentations, exhibits, grants applied for or received or future arrangements for any of these; be as specific as possible; 3) a statement that all objectives, activities, or phases proposed in the original application have been completed. If a Summer Fellowship recipient fails to accomplish any of the objectives, phases, or activities proposed in the original application, then the recipient must attach an additional page to the report detailing what was not accomplished and why. The Department Head is responsible for monitoring unfinished projects until they are completed. When the project is completed, a final report must be submitted to the Department Head, College Dean, and the Graduate College.

Failure to complete the project during the Fellowship period or by the next time a recipient is eligible to apply for an award will play a significant role in decisions on future awards.

The report must be submitted to the recipient's Department Head, College Dean, and to the Graduate College no later than October 1of the academic year following the Fellowship(or the Monday following, should October 1 fall on a weekend).Failure to submit the report at this time will make the recipient ineligible for subsequent Fellowships.

The Head of the recipient's department will use the narrative report as part of the annual evaluation of faculty performance. The reported Fellowship activities will be a significant factor in recommendations for merit increases.

Recipients are strongly encouraged to submit their findings for publication, to present them at a professional meeting, to exhibit the results of their creative activity, or to submit a grant application. All published reports or exhibits aided by this program should include an acknowledgement that the project was supported, in whole or in part, by a Summer Fellowship from the University of Northern Iowa.