General Information

  • Eligibility: New full-time, continuing- and tenure-track faculty during the summer after their first or second year of teaching at Elon.
  • Categories Supported: Scholar
  • Application Deadline: January 30

Purpose

Provides a summer salary supplement to support early-career faculty in pursuing research activities.

Grant Description

Summer supplement to faculty salary (approximately $4,800) to allow for summer research activities. Faculty may teach no more than the equivalent of one course during the summer when funding is received. Funds are added to paycheck at the end of June, July, and August.

Awards are not granted on a competitive basis. However, eligible faculty should submit to their Dean and the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity a plan for their summer research by January 30 of the year of the funding. Research plans should articulate what one plans to do, how it is aligned with their research agenda, how they will allot their time to complete the work, and what concrete outcomes are projected. A final report of summer research progress is due in the Provost’s Office by October 15 of the year in which the stipend is given.

How to Apply

  • Submit research plan to your Dean and the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity

Sponsoring Office

Provost’s Office
Administered through the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity