Internal Faculty Leave Support

Pre-tenure leaves: $6,000 research award. May elect to divert up to $10,000 of leave salary for research expenses during the leave.

Tenured leaves: One semester salary support. May elect to divert up to $10,000 of leave salary for research expenses during the leave. 

Up to two Mellon fellowships can be awarded each year: one for a pre-tenure leave and one for a tenured leave.

Pre-tenure leaves: up to $10,000 for research expenses.

Tenured leaves: 75% of a one semester salary (=37.5% annual salary) plus up to $10,000 for research expenses. 

Bowdoin Faculty Research fellowships are intended to further faculty development by supporting distinguished, substantive, multi-year projects. Outstanding research programs or projects aimed at improvement in teaching are strongly encouraged.

In addition, projects which fall outside of the standard research or instructional categories will be seriously considered if they substantially contribute to a faculty member's intellectual development or to the educational mission of the College. Proposals built on well-defined departures from previous teaching or research will be viewed as favorably as those proposals that promise substantial enrichment of ongoing projects. In all cases the project should represent a faculty member's primary commitment over a specified period of time.

Up to two fellowships will be awarded: one fellowship to be awarded to an assistant professor, and one to a tenured faculty member. Availability of funds is limited to the period of a faculty member's Bowdoin appointment. Faculty who receive a Bowdoin Faculty Research Fellowship (or, as it was previously called, a Kenan Fellowship) will become eligible to apply again no sooner than ten years after receiving their award.

If a successful applicant has received a Faculty Research Award for a portion of the Bowdoin Faculty Research Fellowship project, the former grant should normally be returned to the College.

Pre-tenure leaves: up to $6,000 for travel and relocation expenses.

Tenured leaves: 75% of a one semester salary (=37.5% annual salary) plus up to $6,000 for travel and relocation expenses.

The Elizabeth Watkins Porter and Robert Chamberlain Porter Fund was established in 1998 to "encourage faculty renewal and development to benefit both faculty and their students" by enabling faculty members to "engage in advanced study or research at other universities."

1. Title of project.
2. A brief abstract of the proposal (fewer than 100 words). Please note that this should be an abstract of the proposal, not the project alone.
3. A narrative description (no more than four pages single-spaced, 12 point font, 1.25 inch margins, double-spaced between paragraphs) in which the applicant makes clear in language that is accessible to non-specialist colleagues the following. Please use the following subheads, verbatim, in bold, to organize your proposal:
      a. The ideas, problems, works or questions the study will examine.
      b. The specific steps to be taken to accomplish this project.
      c. The significance of the project to my scholarly field and research/artistic program.
      d. The relationship of the project to my ongoing development as a scholar.
      e. Anticipated outcome(s). A clear statement of anticipated outcome(s).
      f.  Previous awards from the Faculty Development Committee. The dates and amount of awards from the Faculty Development Committee received over the past six years and a brief summary of their results. Please include dates and names of any leave support from the committee over the past ten years. Any relationships between previously funded projects and the current research must be described.
     g. Other sources of funding. An assessment of the availability of outside funding for the project. The Committee is 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.
5. A budget for travel, materials, and other expenses related to the project. Some of the award programs include funds for project expenses (e.g. travel, materials, etc.) Please use the suggested travel budget format.

A completed Leave Supplement application should not include the following: