Guest Professorship (short-term)

Application Guidelines

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

Program Description. The Guest Professorship (short-term) program is designed to bring three to four distinguished scholars 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. 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.

Award Amount and Award Period. The budget may include the following items:

• $4,000 per month stipend, payable on Special Payroll
• 8.6% fringe benefits
• $1,200 travel expenses (domestic) or $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 application form, but 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.
2. A detailed description of the plan for the nominee's proposed activities (topic and number of lectures, interaction with graduate assistants, etc.). Explain exactly what the nominee will be doing.
3. Proposed budget and timetable.
4. Description of the nominee's research and education related accomplishments.
5. 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.
6. Letter of support from the Department Head.
7. Curriculum vitae of the nominee (biographical data and list of publications).

Review Procedure. Criteria used by the peer review committee in reviewing the application include the following:

• Scholarly, professional stature of the candidate, i.e., creative intellectual work that is validated by peers and communicated – including creative artistry and the discovery, integration, and development of knowledge.
• 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 a single .pdf file 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 and education related work
• Letters of support from other University faculty
• Letter of support from Department Head
• A curriculum vitae of the nominee (biographical data and list of publications)

Lecture Announcements. The Office of the Vice President 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 and forward to Larisa.Hull@uconn.edu.