Guest Professorship (short-term)

Guidelines and Application

Electronic Application Deadline: November 12, 2008

  • Program Description
  • Award Amount and Award Period
  • Application Guidelines
  • Review Procedure
  • Electronic Submission
  • Announcement of Awards
  • Checklist
  • Lecture Announcements
  • Final Report

Program Description. The (Short-Term) Guest Professorship program is designed to bring three to four distinguished visitors to campus each year for an intensive period of scholarly exchange with faculty members and graduate students. It is expected that the scholarly exchange will be fairly broad-based, and that the visitor will be available for discussions on a variety of topics related to the visitor's special field of interest. Interdepartmental nominations are strongly encouraged.

The nominee should be a person of established competence; the program is not intended to be a postdoctoral program. Also, the guest professorship program is not designed to support visiting scholars who come to campus to work with a University faculty member on a specific research project; funds for visits of this nature, where the scholar is a visiting researcher or consultant, must be requested via the Faculty Research Grants program.

Award amount and award period. The requested Short-term Guest Professorship budget may include the following items: $4,000 per month stipend, payable on Special Payroll; 8.6% fringe benefits; $1,200 travel expenses (domestic) $1,500 (foreign), $1,500 for lodging and food. Nominees may be invited for a minimum of one month, a maximum of two months.

Application guidelines. There is no formal application, but all applications must include the following information:

  1. Letter of nomination by a University faculty member, which includes a statement of the role to be played by the nominee while in residence at the University. Include an outline of the nominee's proposed activities (topic and number of lectures, interaction with graduate assistants, etc.).
  2. Proposed budget and timetable
  3. Description of the nominee's research and education related work
  4. Letters of support from other University faculty and/or departments, which indicate how the proposed visit will further the graduate education and research goals of the supporting programs/departments
  5. Curriculum vitae of the nominee (biographical data and list of publications).

Review procedure. Criteria used by the Research Council's ad hoc Committee in reviewing the application will include the following:

  • Scholarly, professional stature of the candidate
  • Potential contribution by the candidate to the general welfare of the University community and to special groups of staff and graduate students within the scope of the candidate's field of specialization
  • Stimulation of scholarly research or catalytic potential of the candidate among staff and students
  • The appointment as a component of the public image of the University
  • Distribution of previous short-term guest professorships within the University
  • Availability of the candidate during the Spring/Summer Semester or the academic year

Electronic Submission. Submit as a single .pdf file (preferred) to larisa.hull@uconn.edu.

Announcement of Awards. December.

Checklist

  • Letter of nomination with outline of the nominee's proposed activities
  • A proposed budget and timetable
  • Description of nominee's research & education related work
  • Letters of support from other University faculty
  • A curriculum vitae of the nominee (biographical data and list of publications)

Lecture Announcements. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research strongly encourages departments to provide notice of the nominee's lectures and other activities to the UConn Advance.

Final Report. At the end of the award period, please complete a brief final report that may include a list of the nominee's lectures and description of the nominee's interaction with the department.