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 CAS dean, the 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 College.
The following documents should be submitted via the Summer Fellowship Submission Portal 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 be asked to include the report from your most recent summer fellowship
Additional Important Dates:
February 14, 2022: Deadline for Department’s Evaluation Form (Click here to view form. This form is typically completed by department chair. If a chair applies, a pro tempore chair should evaluate all proposals from that department.)
February 28, 2022: Deadline for Dean's Recommendation to the Committee (Click here to view form. Applicants applying only for the CAS Dean's summer grants will be evaluated by the CAS dean after the Summer Fellowship Selection Committee's evaluation.)
April 4, 2022: Deadline for Summer Fellowship Selection Committee’s Evaluation (click here to view summer fellowship committee members and evaluation criteria)
April 18, 2022: Announcement
Fall 2022: Report Due in Annual Report with Copy to Academic Affairs and Dean
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 any questions you may have regarding summer fellowships.