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Application Guidelines and Forms (Back to Top)
Application Form
Application Guidelines
Program Information (Back to Top)
Funding Limit: Up to $6,000 for operating costs, OR for a combination of operating costs and faculty summer salary. Of the $6,000, no more than $5,000 may be used for faculty salary. Fringe benefits for the summer salary will be cost-shared by the University.
Duration: May 15 through August 15, with final report due September 15.
Summer 2008 Applications Due: Faculty members must submit proposals to their Department Heads by Monday, September 24, 2007. Department Heads are responsible for submitting applications from their departments to the appropriate Dean's office by Monday, October 1, 2007. Deans must submit proposals to the OSP by Monday, October 8, 2007. It is each faculty member's responsibility to check with the staff in his or her Dean's Office to be sure proposals have been delivered to the OSP by close of business October 8.
Objectives (Back to Top)
Provides up to $6,000 for operating costs, OR for a combination of operating costs and faculty summer salary. Of the $6,000, no more than $5,000 may be used for faculty salary. Fringe benefits for the summer salary will be cost-shared by the University.
Awards are made to regular, full-time, tenured or tenure-track Western Kentucky University faculty for assistance for research and creative activity. Western Kentucky University's mission focuses on scholarship in its four forms -- discovery, integration, application, and teaching -- thus, all professional activity by faculty, regardless of the discipline, is encompassed in this definition of scholarship.
Eligibility (Back to Top)
Applicants must be employed as regular, full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty at Western Kentucky University, and must be teaching a reduced summer load or no summer classes. Faculty members appointed as endowed chairs or endowed professors are not eligible to apply.
Restrictions
A Summer Faculty Scholarship award is equivalent to one three-hour course load. Faculty members may teach up to six credit-hours during the summer (including May Term), and still hold a summer award. Faculty members teaching full-time during the summer (nine credit-hours) are ineligible to apply for or receive a Summer Faculty Scholarship award.
If an applicant has received two Summer Faculty Scholarships in two consecutive years, he/she must wait at least one year before reapplying.
No more than two Faculty Scholarship awards (New, Regular, or Summer) may be held at the same time. Two awards may be held at the same time ONLY for two significantly different projects. The Faculty Scholarship Council will not review a new application from a faculty member who has two currently open awards.
Funding / Expenses (Back to Top)
Up to $6,000 may be used for operating costs to carry out the project. The faculty member also has the option of using up to $5,000 of the award as summer salary for time spent on the project, with the remainder used for operating costs.
Allowable Expenses:
Principal Investigator summer salary (not including associated fringe benefits as they will be cost shared) for time spent on the project, and/or operating costs such as travel vital to research; student labor and technical help (including fringe benefits) that cannot be provided through the departmental budget; special materials and equipment; books that cannot be obtained through interlibrary loan; necessary supplies; postage; cost of copying; and stipends to research participants.
Unallowable Expenses:
Travel to present at or attend a professional conference or travel to disseminate results of the project; typing a manuscript for publication that was not part of the internal grant activities; equipment or supplies which the applicant's department could normally purchase through the departmental budget; books which the library would normally acquire as part of its holdings; editing of a manuscript; research to complete a dissertation; and reimbursement for expenses incurred prior to the approval of the internal proposal.
Contact (Back to Top)
Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)
Address:
301 Potter Hall
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd. #11026
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1026
Telephone: 270-745-4652
Fax: 270-745-4211
Email: sponsored.programs@wku.edu