Summer Faculty Scholarships
Application Guidelines and Forms
Application Form (excel)
Application Guidelines (pdf)
Submission: See deadlines below.
** IMPORTANT UPDATE***
DUE DATES:
Monday, September 28, 2009 - To Department Head's Office by 4:00 p.m.
Monday, October 5, 2009 - To Dean's Office by 4:00 p.m.
Monday, October 12, 2009 - To OSP, Potter Hall 301, by 4:00 p.m.
Program Information
Funding Limit: $6,000. No more than $5,000 may be used for faculty summer salary. Fringe benefits for the summer salary will be cost-shared by the University.
Duration: May 15 through August 15
Final Report: Due September 15.
Program Objectives and Eligibility
Summer Faculty Scholarships provide support for project costs, including principle investigator salary (up to $5,000), for regular, full-time, tuenured or tenure-track WKU faculty members. Projects must involve research or scholarly activity rather than professional development. Scholarship in all forms (discovery, integration, application, and teaching), regardless of academic discipline, will be supported.
Restrictions:
A Summer Faculty Scholarship award is equivalent to one three-hour course load. Faculty members may teach up to six credit hours during the summer (including May Term), and still hold a summer award. Faculty members teaching full-time during the summer (nine credit hours) are not eligible to receive a Summer Faculty Scholarship award. If an applicant has received two Summer Faculty Schoalrships in two consecutive years, he/she must wait at least one year before reapplying. No more than two Faculty Scholarship Awards (New, Regular, or Summer) may be held at the same time. Two awards may be held at the same time only for two substantially different projects. The Faculty Scholarship Council will not review a new application from a faculty member who has two currently open awards.
This award mechanism excludes faculty members initially appointed as endowed chairs or endowed professors.
Allowable Expenses:
- Principle investigator summer salary (up to $5,000)
- Project related travel
- Student labor and technical help (including fringe benefits) that cannot be provided by the faculty member's department
- Necessary supplies and equipment
- Books that cannot be obtained through interlibrary loan
- Postage
- Photocopying
- Stipends or other incentives for research participants
Unallowable Expenses:
- Travel to present at or attend a professional conference or otherwise disseminate results of the project
- Preparation of a manuscript for publication that was not related to the project
- Equipment or supplies that the applicant's department would normally purchase
- Books that the library would normally acquire as part of its holdings
- Salary or any reimbursement to the researcher for time spent on the project
- Editing of a manuscript
- Research to complete a dissertation
- Reimbursement of research expenses incurred prior to approval of the project by the Faculty Scholarship Committee
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