Engage in research and creative activities that enhance your student's learning environment.
Devote intense thought and activity to a single project. Help distinguish the university
as a center of excellence in its disciplines.
Please note: Projects which involve consulting activity, the production of teaching
aids, enhancement of teaching skills, practice of professional skills outside the
academic environment, “retooling” for new teaching assignments, development of Internet
courses or other curriculum development activities will not be considered.
Are you eligible?
If you're an assistant professor and above who has a research commitment in your appointment,
you are eligible to apply.
Fellowships for those who are eligible
How and when to apply
Application deadline for the summer faculty fellowship: October 30th.
Note: If the deadline falls on a weekend or holiday, applications will be accepted
the following working day.
To apply:
Limit your proposal to the space allotted or page limit noted in the Summer Faculty
Fellowship application form that you will download from the Summer Faculty Fellowship Brightspace Community.
Submit your Vitae as an attachment (combined with application and all other materials
- do not upload as separate attachment). Limit it to no more than 5 pages (12 point
font, 1 inch margin) with emphasis on recent activity that support the proposal.
Upload references as an attachment to the application (combined with application and
all other materials - do not upload as separate attachment).
Once you have completed all components of the application, convert all attachments
and combine into one PDF (Word documents or JPN/PNG files must be converted to PDF).
Note: The evaluating committee is composed of faculty members from diverse disciplines.
Therefore, an application should state clearly, in terms comprehensible to the non-specialist,
what you want to do and the significance of the work to your field of interest and
the academic community.
All questions/fields are required and incomplete applications will not be reviewed by the committee. If a question/field is "not applicable" please mark
as "N/A".
Find out the details for completing, submitting, tracking and fulfilling summer fellowship
requests.
Applicants may not teach summer courses or have outside jobs during the tenure of
the fellowship, which begins with the first day of the summer term and ends on the
last day of the summer term.
A faculty member must be returning to Missouri State University for the following
academic year to be eligible to receive a Summer Faculty Fellowship.
The same project cannot be funded by another internal grant source. In addition, a
faculty member cannot submit an application for a Faculty Research Grant and a Summer
Faculty Fellowship during the same academic year.
A Summer Faculty Fellowship cannot directly precede or immediately follow an academic
year during which a sabbatical has been approved/taken. A person is not eligible to
apply for a Summer Faculty Fellowship and sabbatical leave in the same academic year.
A faculty member who has previously received a Summer Faculty Fellowship Grant must
have applied for an external grant if a research-focused proposal or, disseminated
their scholarly activity or other type of product (presentation, article submission,
report), since completion of the previous Summer Faculty Fellowship Grant.
A written final report must be submitted to the academic unit leader, college dean,
and Graduate College no later than December 31 of the fellowship year. (The copy sent
to the Graduate College will be kept on file with the original application for a period
of 5 years.)
The final report consists of an overview of the activities undertaken during the fellowship
period, as well as a summary of any research results or project outcomes. In addition,
the fellowship recipient should submit copies of any conference papers, presentations,
and/or publications resulting from the project.
Faculty who receive a Summer Faculty Fellowship are ineligible to apply for another
Summer Faculty Fellowship until two intervening summers have passed.
Anyone who has failed to submit a final report is ineligible to apply for another
summer faculty fellowship.
The Summer Faculty Fellowship provides a $6,000 stipend to the recipient. (Please
be aware that the stipend provided by this fellowship, should one be awarded, is taxable
income).
It is the responsibility of the applicant to track and make sure that their summer
faculty fellowship application is reviewed by both the academic unit leader (department
head/director) and dean and is approved and submitted through Dynamic Forms - Summer
Faculty Fellowship Signature Form prior to midnight on the deadline (October 30).
Failure to obtain all signatures and submit through the Dynamic Forms - Summer Faculty
Fellowship Signature Form by the deadline will result in the application being rejected/denied.
Late applications will not be considered.
Process for your submitted application within Dynamic Forms - Summer Faculty Fellowship
Grant Signature Form
First step: Fill out all required information on the Dynamic Form - Summer Faculty Fellowship
Grant Signature Form and upload your SFF Application as one PDF as instructed previously.
Double-check the email address you enter. If you enter an incorrect email address,
the form will not route. The Dynamic Form will route your application for approval,
comments, and signature first to your academic unit leader (department head/director).
Second step: The Dynamic Form will then route your application from your academic unit leader
(department head/director) to dean for approval, comments and signature.
Third step: The Dynamic Form and application will then route to the Faculty Grants Committee
via the Operations Administrator for the Graduate College for review and funding recommendations.
Fourth step: You will be notified after funding recommendations have been approved - generally
30 days from application deadline.
Any applications not received through the Dynamic Forms - Summer Faculty Fellowship
Grant Signature Page by the Graduate College by midnight on the deadline date for
distribution to the Faculty Grants Committee will not be considered. Proposals failing
to comply with the guidelines will not be considered by the committee.
Selection is based on the quality of the proposal. In addition, priority is given
to new faculty and faculty who have not received previous funding.
Applications will be evaluated by the Faculty Research Grant Committee. The recommendations
of this committee are then submitted to the Faculty Grants Committee Chair/Dean of
the Graduate College for approval. Applications failing to comply with the guidelines will not be considered by the committee. Respect for the peer review process and a collegial attitude toward the work of
the committee are integral parts of the success of the university fellowship award
system.
