OFD Accepting Applications for Mid-Career Post Tenure Fellowship

The Office of Faculty Development is accepting applications for the Mid-Career Post-Tenure Fellowship, to be taken during the 2024-25 academic year, in accordance with Article 15.16 of the collective bargaining agreement between UMass Amherst and the Massachusetts Society of Professors.

The competitively awarded fellowship provides a research-intensive semester to associate professors who have had their progress toward promotion to full professor slowed due to service or teaching responsibilities that have exceeded the norm. Award recipients shall be provided with one semester of release from teaching responsibilities, department obligations and college service.

The award may be scheduled in conjunction with an approved sabbatical leave, thereby yielding a full year of leave at full salary. Schools and colleges shall maintain current number of preexisting mid-career research awards and similar research leave/fellowship opportunities for mid-career faculty.

More information regarding the application procedure and selection criteria can be found on the OFD website.