Junior Faculty Development Awards

The University will solicit applications each Fall Semester for Junior Faculty Development Awards paid from endowment income from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation.  The awards, up to the amount of $7,500, are to be expended during the period beginning January 1 and ending December 31.

The following terms apply to the awards:

Applicants must be full-time, salaried faculty members without tenure and must not have been proposed for tenure prior to the application deadline date stated in the annual announcement.

Preference will be given first to persons holding the rank of Assistant Professor and then to persons holding the rank of Associate Professor.  Individuals holding fixed-term appointments will generally be considered as less competitive.

Applicants in the second, third, or fourth year of service at the time of their application will be given preference over first-time applicants with fewer than two or more than four years' service.

No person who has previously received an award will be eligible for a second award.

Money from the award may not be used to provide release time from regular employment.  For persons on nine-month contracts, the money may be used to provide summer salary and fringe benefits; this source of funds will count as part of the one-third allowable for faculty members on nine-months service.  Summer salary will be subject to the usual deductions.  Since the awards are required to cover fringe benefit costs, the entire amount of an award cannot be paid as salary.

Funds from the awards may also be used for supplies, equipment, salaries of assistants, travel, or to assist with any other dimension of faculty development.

Under no circumstances will a faculty member on nine months' service who uses the Junior Faculty Development Award for summer salary be allowed to teach Summer School or serve as an administrator in the Summer School during the summer in the year of the award.

The application packet should include the following:

• letter to the Chair of the Committee on Faculty Research and Study Leaves
• curriculum vitae
• narrative description of one or two pages describing the project to be undertaken and in no case should more than two pages be submitted
• proposed budget which cannot exceed $7,500.  The budget should show the kinds of expenditures proposed, e.g., salary, fringe benefits, travel, equipment, etc.
• an indication of other funds (e.g., NEH Summer Fellowships, University Research Council awards, etc.) which will be used or which are available for the support of the project
• letter of endorsement from the applicant's department or curriculum chair or, in the case of non-departmentalized schools, the Dean of the School.

Submit the original and seven copies of the application to:

Chair
Committee on Faculty Research and Study Leaves
Office of the Provost
CB 8000, 218 South Building
Carolina Campus

BEFORE 5:00 p.m. on the deadline.

Applications presented after that time will not be considered by the Committee.

The Committee on Faculty Research and Study Leaves will usually consist of the following individuals:  the Deans of the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences, two faculty members (one from Academic Affairs, one from Health Affairs), the Executive Associate Provost, the Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives, and the Provost as Chair.