Summer Fellowships at Canisius College are funded in multiple ways. These include the Faculty Fellowship Program* outlined in the Faculty Handbook (Chapter 7, Section B), Mission and Identity Fellowships, and CAS Dean’s summer grants. This documentation serves as guidelines for a central application process for each of these means of supporting faculty summer efforts.
Applications are open to faculty in all three schools though only faculty in CAS are eligible for the CAS Dean's summer grants.
All applications will be reviewed by the department, the dean, and the Summer Research Fellowship Selection Committee. The deansCAS dean, the director office of mission & identity, and the vice president for academic affairs will make funding decisions based on the recommendations of these reviews and the funding line they each administer. The assistant vice president for academic affairs (faculty development) will oversee the application and review process.
The amount awarded is a $5000 salary stipend. This stipend will be divided across co-recipients for collaborative applications.
*Open to full-time faculty members who have completed at least two academic years of full-time service at Canisius
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The following documents should will be submitted via the Summer Fellowship Submission Portal by January 23 (click here to submit proposal) by JANUARY 24:
- Summer Fellowship Proposal (click here to see proposal guidelines)Engaged Scholarship Recognition Form (click here to download form) - Answers will be used to consider eligibility for Mission & Identity funding and in efforts to recognize the ways in which faculty scholarship connects to important institutional priorities
- A copy of your current CV
- If you have received a summer fellowship in the past five years, you will may be asked to include provide the report from your most recent summer fellowship if it is not already on file in Academic Affairs
- You will be asked to self-identify how your project connects to our Engaged Scholarship Recognition Initiative to help our community gain a better understanding of the ways in which scholarship at Canisius encompasses important priority areas
Anticipated Additional Important Dates:
February 20, 202214: Deadline for for Department’s Evaluation Form (Click here to view form. This form will be completed within the submission portal after the faculty submits their application. This form is typically completed by department chair. If If a chair applies, a pro tempore chair should evaluate all proposals from that department.)
March 6, 2022February 28: Deadline for for Dean's Recommendation to the Committee (Click here to view form. This form )April 3, 2022: Deadline for will be completed within the submission portal after the department submits their evaluation.)
March 27: Deadline for Summer Fellowship Selection Committee’s Evaluation (click Click here to view summer fellowship committee members and evaluation criteria.)
April 17, 2022: Announcement
Following Fall 2022: Report Due in Annual Report with Copy to VP for Academic Affairs
January 2023: Participate in a symposium of Summer Fellowship recipients during Winter Intercession
Please contact Jenn Lodi-Smith, assistant vice president for academic affairs (faculty development), at lodismij@canisius.edu with and Dean
Please contact Academic Affairs with any questions you may have regarding summer fellowships.