Western Kentucky University
Office of Sponsored Programs

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Faculty Scholarship Awards
Junior Faculty Scholarship

Title: Junior Faculty Scholarship
Contact: Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) Address: 301 Potter Hall Western Kentucky University 1906 College Heights Blvd. #11026 Bowling Green, KY 42101-1026 Telephone: 270-745-4652 Fax: 270-745-4211 Email: sponsored.programs@wku.edu Website: http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Support/SponsPrg/grants/ Application Guidelines and Forms: Application Form -- view separate sheets of this Excel form by clicking tabs at the bottom of the form Application Guidelines
Program Information
Funding Limit:	$4,000
Duration:	12 months from award date, with final report due one month after close of grant.
Applications to OSP:	First working Monday of every month during the academic year. The Faculty Scholarship Council does not meet to review proposals during summer months.
Objectives
Provides project operating support of up to $4,000 to regular, full-time, tenure-track Western Kentucky University faculty for research and creative activity. Western Kentucky University's mission focuses on scholarship in its four forms -- discovery, integration, application, and teaching -- thus, all professional activity by faculty, regardless of the discipline, is encompassed in this definition of scholarship.
Eligibility
Regular, full-time, tenure-track Western Kentucky University faculty within the first three years of appointment to the University or following promotion to assistant professor rank. Faculty members appointed as endowed chairs or endowed professors are not eligible to apply.
Restrictions
An applicant may receive only one Junior Faculty Scholarship during his or her career at Western Kentucky University. No more than two Faculty Scholarship awards (Junior, Regular, or Summer) may be held at the same time. Two awards may be held at the same time ONLY for two significantly different projects. The Faculty Scholarship Council will not review a new application from a faculty member who has two currently open awards.
Funding / Expenses
Up to $4,000 may be used for operating costs to carry out the project. In addition to the funds, applicants may request a three-hour teaching load reduction for one semester during the project duration. Requests for course load reductions must be approved by the department head and college dean prior to the printing of the course schedule for the specified term. Allowable Expenses: Travel vital to research; student labor and technical help (including fringe benefits) that cannot be provided through the departmental budget; special materials and equipment; books that cannot be obtained through interlibrary loan; necessary supplies; postage; cost of copying; and stipends to research participants. Unallowable Expenses: Travel to present at or attend a professional conference or travel to disseminate results of the project; typing a manuscript for publication that was not part of the internal grant activities; equipment or supplies which the applicant's department could normally purchase through the departmental budget; books which 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; and reimbursement for expenses incurred prior to the approval of the internal proposal.

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