Application Form

Purpose: The summer stipend program is designed to enhance the range of faculty development possibilities by taking into account that scholarly and creative pursuits take a variety of forms and may go through a series of stages before fruition. They acknowledge that individuals need time and encouragement to develop new courses or renew existing ones. To encourage several different ways in which scholarly and artistic work may be accomplished, the Faculty Development Committee will recommend to the administration that at least one summer stipend be awarded to qualified applicants in each of four categories: a) exploratory scholarship and artistic projects, b) scholarly work or artistic project, c) computer enhanced course renewal, and d) course development and renewal. At least twenty projects will be funded if qualified proposals are received.

Eligibility: Faculty members who are on a full-time continuing contract whose summer project would be at least one semester removed from a leave of absence are eligible to apply for a summer stipend. Faculty members apply for only one Summer Stipend per year and are eligible to receive one award every two years.

Expectations & Rules:

• All funded Summer Stipend awards are in the amount of $2500 to the faculty member as a salary supplement.
• The fund provides a stipend for your time and effort. If you need funds to support expenses for the project, you should apply to the the Professional Development Fund
• If the Summer Stipend is for Course Development or Renewal or for Technology Enhanced Course Renewal, the faculty member should teach the course within two years of the award.
• Faculty members considering projects that involve technology should consult with Faculty Instructional Technology Support (FITS) at least two weeks prior to the application deadline.

Types of Summer Stipends:

1. Exploratory Scholarship and Artistic Projects. This award is meant to support exploratory scholarship and artistic projects. This stipend may allow an individual to do preliminary work on a larger project, which is intended at some point to end in a product, or to complete a project smaller in scope, which might be shared with DePauw or with the larger academic community in a variety of ways.
2. Scholarly Work or Artistic Project. This award is designed to provide support and incentive for faculty who plan to bring a piece of creative work or a research project to a close, or who plan to complete a significant portion of a larger project. Criteria will include magnitude of the project; likelihood of publication, exhibition, or performance; and overall significance of the project for the field. The end result of the summer project will be a manuscript submitted for publication, an exhibition, or a performance.
3. Technology Enhanced Course Renewal. This award is meant to provide financial support and incentive to individuals who will be substantially enhancing an existing course through the use of computing technology. These enhancements may be done through the use of pre-existing software or the design of new software. You should plan to make significant changes in an already existing full semester course, not a Winter Term or 1/2 credit course. Proposals will be judged on their merit, but with all else being equal, priority will be given to a course, which utilizes currently available computer resources, can be implemented by using existing lab facilities, and has received the support of Faculty Instructional Technology Support (FITS) when applicable. The course should be offered within two academic years of its design.
4. Course Development and Renewal. Summer stipends may also be granted for course development, or for significant revision of full-credit courses and curricula. Priority will be given to proposals that support University-wide institutional goals and initiatives, such as mulitcultural diversity, interdisciplinarity, internationalization, ethics, and First-Year Seminars. Applicants should attach a letter of support from their department Chairs and from Directors or Coordinators of relevant interdisciplinary programs, confirming that the proposed course or revision meets a department and/or program need and that the course will be able to be offered within two years of the award. It is desirable that these courses be offered more than once and become part of the regular DePauw curriculum

   Ethics-Related Faculty Development Awards: Faculty members may apply for ethics-related awards through the regular Faculty Development award process. These applications should follow the process outlined in this section.

5. In order to be eligible for an ethics award, the project should attend also to ethical questions or issues in an integral way. A project may consist of empirical research, normative inquiry or artistic expression, but in all cases the description should make clear how ethical issues will be addressed within the project. Ethics is understood here in a very broad sense that can include all disciplines and programs at DePauw.
6. Faculty members considering projects that involve a consideration of ethical issues are encouraged to look at the abstracts for funded projects related to ethics as listed on the Ethics Institute website. They also may wish to consult with members of the Ethics Advisory Committee.
7. Faculty members with ethics-related leave projects are eligible to apply for office space at the Prindle Institute.
8. To be eligible for support from the supplemental funding for the Ethics Institute, proposals must be highly-ranked for their ethics content by the Faculty Ethics Advisory Committee (a subcommittee of the Faculty Development Committee).

Evaluation of Course Development Proposals: Proposals will be judged by the usual criteria of Merit, Scope, Qualifications, Clarity, and Completeness - see "Competitive Internal Funding Criteria and Guidelines." Priority will be given to proposals that support University-wide institutional goals and initiatives, such as multicultural diversity, interdisciplinarity, internationalization, ethics and First-Year Seminars. The Committee will look favorably on proposals that:

• will reach a large audience;
• can be offered soon and regularly;
• represent a new departure or a truly radical revision;
• support the University's curriculum, such as competence courses, distribution requirements, etc.;
• have no other funding sources

Reporting Process: Reports for all Summer Stipends are due for by the first Monday of the following fall semester. For a course development award, reports should include a course syllabus and other appropriate materials. For scholarly or artistic work, the report should include the product from the summer work. (see Report Guidelines for Awards for further information).