Academic Affairs

A Faculty Leave Fellowship provides salary support for up to two-thirds of a one-semester salary. Applicants do not need to state their salaries in their applications, as final calculations will be made in the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs. The Committee will not have access to confidential salary information.

Application Procedures

A complete Faculty Leave Fellowship application must include:

1. Title of project
2. A narrative description (no more than four pages single-spaced) in which the applicant makes clear in language that is accessible to non-specialist colleagues the following:
   
   1. the basic ideas, problems, works, or questions the study will examine, and the steps to be taken to accomplish this research;
   2. the significance of the project to the applicant’s scholarly field and research program;
   3. the relationship of the project to the applicant’s ongoing development as a scholar;
   4. a clear statement of anticipated outcome;
   5. the dates and amount of awards from the Faculty Resources Committee received over the past six years, any previous Faculty Leave Fellowship, Kenan or Porter grants, or Bowdoin Faculty Research Fellowship, and a brief summary of their results. Any relationships between previously funded projects and the current research must be described.
3. An assessment of the availability of outside funding for the project. The Committee is well aware that certain types of worthy proposals might not be appropriate for requests to conventional funding agencies. Justification is required, however, if external funding has not been sought. If external funding has been sought – or applications will be submitted – this should be noted in the application, with a list of agencies or organizations to which applications have been or will be submitted. If external funds are obtained, the total amount of all salary awards, from both Bowdoin and non-Bowdoin sources, cannot exceed a faculty member’s annualized salary.
4. A current curriculum vitae, no longer than five pages.
5. An external recommendation by a scholar/educator in the same field as the proposal. The letter should address the merits of the proposed activity and why/how the applicant is prepared to undertake it successfully.

All these materials should be submitted electronically on or before the deadline date to fdc@list.bowdoin.edu. Applications must be submitted (in a single document when possible) in Microsoft Word or PDF format; any other electronic format will not be accepted. For assistance in creating PDF documents, please contact the IT Help Desk. Electronic applications will be received automatically by all members of the Faculty Development Committee. An incomplete or late application will not be considered.