Faculty Summer Fellowship Application 2025-2026

Faculty Summer Fellowship Application
Application Due Date: 10/17/2025 (must be submitted by 4:30 pm)

Application due date: Friday, October 17, 2025: electronic application must be submitted to workflow by 4:30 p.m. Electronic forms need enough time to process through workflow approvals, so please take this into consideration when submitting.

Faculty of the University of Northern Iowa, holding a full-time (9 month) tenured or tenure-track with a current appointment except that recipients may not receive a Summer Research Fellowship in consecutive years. A faculty member who receives a Professional Development Assignment (PDA) is ineligible to receive a Summer Fellowship the summer prior to the academic year of the PDA and the subsequent Summer of the PDA.

Through these awards, the University seeks to encourage, assist, and support faculty research, creative activity, and grant applications. Joint applications that are collaborative or interdisciplinary are eligible. One summer must elapse between successive Summer Fellowships.

During the summer fellowship period recipients cannot generally hold another assignment or receive additional compensation from the university. However, recipients may receive compensation from other sources up to a total amount equal to their standard 1/9 salary if the projects funded by other sources also related to the focus of the Summer Research Fellowship proposal. Note: If a faculty member has received other on-campus research or scholarship funding and/or course releases, the faculty member will not be eligible to receive a SRF (one funding award only).

See Summer Fellowship Guidelines and Regulations at: https://grad.uni.edu/summer-fellowship
Faculty (Applicant) Information:
Name*

First NameLast Name
Email*
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UNI ID #*
Department*
Rank*
Department Head Email
example@example.com
Department Head Name
Dean Email Address
example@example.com
Dean Name
Dept. Mail Code
Dean Mail Code
Year of hire:*
Number of Years of Service:*
Previous PDA/SF Awards (if applicable):

If you received a Professional Development Assignment or a Summer Fellowship from the University of Northern Iowa in the past, state the year of the award, Award Type (PDA or SF), the title of the project, and the outcome by indicating one of the following: publication, exhibition, performance, presentation, or other.

(Provide most recent awards from last 6 years; no more than 10 most recent awards).

Examples:

PDA, 2019, How Big Data is Causing Big Problems, Publication

SF, 2021, Songs of the American MidWest, Performance

Title of Summer Fellowship Project:*
Proposed time period:*

MayJuneAny
Do you have funding from other sources related to this project?*

YesNo
Type of project:*

ResearchCreative ActivityGrant ApplicationTEST
Project Abstract:

Brief summary of the project for a general audience. Final paragraph must specifically state how the project will benefit UNI and the citizens of Iowa.

Single-spaced abstract (350-word maximum) and written in third-person point of view. Please indicate total word count at top of document.

Additional guidelines and tips can be found on the Graduate Studies website: https://grad.uni.edu/summer-fellowship
Please upload an abstract of no more than 350 words.
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Proposal Components:

Maximum of 1000 words, double spaced, in PDF format, indicate word count at top of page 1
(Sample references must be within the 1000 word limit but may be single spaced)
- Context; Significance and objectives: What is the overall nature of the project? Specifically, what do you wish to accomplish? How does this project contribute to the scholarly discipline, your past research activity, and your career goals? How does your project fit within the established scholarly literature? Must mention how the project contributes to the improvement of the University and benefits the citizens of Iowa.
- Methods and timetable: How will you accomplish the established objectives? What means will be used to evaluate completion of the objectives? Draw up a timetable that estimates your schedule during the assignment period. Indicate the status of Human Participant Review if needed for the project.
- Dissemination and long-range importance: Describe specific plans for sharing the results of your research through scholarly presentations and/or publication. How will you build upon the results of your SF work? Are there sources of external funding to expand the project?
Additional guidelines and tips can be found on the Graduate Studies website: https://grad.uni.edu/summer-fellowship
Proposal Components:

Creative activity: artistic projects, creative writing, music, theatre, multimedia

Maximum of 1000 words, double spaced, in PDF format, indicate word count at top of page 1

(Sample references must be within the 1000 word limit but may be single spaced)
- Context; Significance and objectives: What is the overall nature of the project? Specifically, what do you wish to accomplish? How does this project contribute to the scholarly discipline, your past creative activity, and your career goals? How does your project fit within the established scholarly creative field? Must mention how the project contributes to the improvement of the University and benefits the citizens of Iowa.
- Methods and timetable: How will you accomplish the established objectives? What means will be used to evaluate completion of the objectives? Draw up a timetable that estimates your schedule during the assignment period.
- Dissemination and long-range importance: Describe specific plans to exhibit, perform, or publish the results of this activity. How will you build upon the results of your SF work? Are there sources of external funding to expand the project?
Additional guidelines and tips can be found on the Graduate Studies website: https://grad.uni.edu/summer-fellowship
Proposal Components:

Maximum of 1000 words, double spaced, in PDF format, indicate word count at top of page 1

(Sample references must be within the 1000 word limit but may be single spaced)
- Nature of the research or creative activity: Describe the scholarly activities you will pursue leading to submission of a grant application to a major federal or private funding agency (National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Education, etc.). Describe the interrelationship between a Summer Fellowship, the grant application, and your long range plans to publish, exhibit, or perform the results of your research or creative activity.
- External funding source: Describe the specific grant(s) you will pursue during the Fellowship period, the funding agency, timetable for preparing and submitting the application. Submission of a grant application within six months of the Fellowship period is mandatory.
Additional guidelines and tips can be found on the Graduate Studies website: https://grad.uni.edu/summer-fellowship
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Curriculum Vitae:

Five page maximum. Should include grant activity during the past five years related to the fellowship project (or funding sources being sought to support the project-for Research and Creative Activity).

Five page maximum, PDF format only
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Faculty Summer Fellowship Application

Faculty (Applicant) Information: