09/03/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/03/2024 10:31
The Office of Faculty Development has announced that Provost Fouad Abd-El-Khalick has selected five UMass Amherst faculty to receive the Mid-Career Post-Tenure (MCPT) Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year.<_o3a_p>
The competitively awarded fellowship provides a research-intensive semester to associate professors whose service and teaching responsibilities have exceeded the norm. Award recipients will be provided with one semester of release from teaching responsibilities, department obligations and college service in accordance with Article 15.16 of the collective bargaining agreement between UMass Amherst and the Massachusetts Society of Professors. <_o3a_p>
The 2024-25 MCPT Fellowship recipients are: <_o3a_p>
The award may be scheduled in conjunction with an approved sabbatical leave, thereby yielding a full year of leave at full salary.<_o3a_p>
Call for applications are made in the fall and are administered by the Office of Faculty Development. Applications are short and require department chair/head and dean approval.<_o3a_p>