Office of Academic Affairs

IU Northwest Summer Faculty Fellowship for Teaching Improvement or Course Development

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE

To provide living costs for faculty who intend to devote an entire summer to strengthening teaching and course development at IU Northwest.

ELIGIBILITY

Tenure-track and tenured faculty and those with full-time continuing clinical rank and lecturer appointments.

LIMIT OF SUPPORT

The award is for $10,000.00.

FILING DEADLINE

The Filing Deadline is in October. Please see Deadlines on Academic Affairs homepage for current dates. Please keep a copy of your application on file for personal use.

AWARD NOTICE

A letter from the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs is sent in December.

DURATION

Summer (approximately three months).

SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS

(1) Recipients of this grant must not hold any other service-rendering appointments at any time throughout the summer; and (2) recipients must continue at Indiana University through the following academic year.

TYPE OF SUPPORT

Paid directly to the faculty member as a fellowship in one lump sum on or about June 1and subject to taxation as provided by current Internal Revenue Service regulations and United States law.

OBLIGATIONS

All faculty members who receive an award must file a brief informative report with the Academic Affairs Office upon completion of their project (or fellowship). If the work is not completed by the end of the Fall Semester following the receipt of the grant (or fellowship), a progress report must be submitted. A final report should be submitted when the project is completed. Failure to submit these reports will cause a faculty member to be ineligible for all categories of IU Northwest support for research and teaching development.

These reports may be reviewed by future Grants and Research Development Committees to assist them in evaluating subsequent applications of a faculty member.

LETTERS OF SUPPORT

Applicants are encouraged to include at least one outside letter of recommendation. Letters should be addressed to the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

SPECIAL NOTE

Activities which could be supported would include but are not limited to individual course development, the generation of innovative approaches to teaching and course delivery, the development of means to assess teaching effectiveness and the development of means to improve the overall quality of instruction at IU Northwest. The project should be described in enough detail to adequately justify the requested fellowship. Care should be taken in filling out the application. The Grants and Research Development Committee is particularly concerned with the methodology of the research. The faculty member is advised to be thorough in preparing the application adding supplementary materials where considered relevant. Be specific and try to write with an educated lay reader in mind. Avoid language which tends to reflect a specialized discipline.

FORM ROUTE

An application for a Summer Faculty Fellowship would be sent to the department chairperson (where appropriate) and then to the division head for recommendation. From there it is sent to the Academic Affairs Office (original and three copies) where it is evaluated by the Grants and Research Development Committee. The Committee reserves the right to review, evaluate, and revise all grant requests originating on the IU Northwest campus. The grant application is then forwarded to the Academic Affairs Office with the Committee's recommendations.

ADDITIONAL GRANT INFORMATION

Contact the Office of Academic Affairs

Library Conference Center 107

Phone: (219) 980-6707