Forms & Applications

The following documents are available as downloadable Portable Document Format (pdf) files, or downloadable Microsoft Word files. Deadlines, where relevant, appear in parentheses. Printed copies of these documents are available from the Dean of Faculties office: dof@indiana.edu, 855-2809. (Adobe Acrobat Reader required to read pdf files—click here to download Acrobat Reader)

Index

Academic Recruitment

eDoc Lite Recruitment Guidelines
Interview Request
Offer Request
Offer to Recommend Appointment
Personal History
Criminal Background Check Policy
and Consent Form
Vacancy Notice
Waiver Request

Award Nominations

Chancellor's Professor/Sonneborn Award (Deadline: Intent: 11/4/08; Dossier: 12/8/08)
List of Past Winners - Chancellor's Professor and Sonneborn Award
Chancellor's Professors' Distinguished Masters Invited Lecture Series (Deadline: 10/21/08)
Distinguished Service Award (Deadline: 12/2/08)

Grants & Fellowships

Fran Snygg Endowment Fund (Deadline: 10/31/08)
Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration (Deadline: 10/31/08)
Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund (Deadline: 10/14/08, 2/17/09)
Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards (Deadline: 10/14/08)
Sustainability Course Development Fellowship (EXTENDED Deadline: 11/25/08)
Sustainability and Environmental Literacy Leadership Award (EXTENDED Deadline: 11/25/08)
RUGS Sponsored Research Services
Summer Instructional Development Fellowships (Deadline: 1/30/09)
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Funds
Active Learning Grants (Deadline: 2/20/09)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants (Deadline: 3/6/09)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership Award (Deadline: 5/22/09)
Service-Learning Faculty Fellows (Deadline: 2/20/09)
Writing-Teaching Grants (Deadline: 2/20/09)

Leaves

Faculty Leaves and the Tenure Clock
Paid Family Leave
Application for Research Leave Supplement
Understanding of Tenure Status
Sabbatical Leave Program (Information and Application)
Sabbatical Leave Program FAQs
Report on Completion of Sabbatical Leave

Promotion

Memorandum on Research Rank Nominations
Guidelines for Tenure and Promotion Dossiers

Religious Holidays

Memorandum and Calendar 2008–2009 Religious Holidays
Request for Accommodation for Religious Observances

Reports

2008 Faculty Summary Report (Deadline: January 12, 2009)

Student Academic

Student Academic Agreement Appointee Form
Mandatory Health Insurance Waiver Form

Academic Recruitment

eDoc Lite Recruitment Guidelines
- PDF
- WORD

Interview Request
- PDF
- WORD

Offer Request
- PDF
- WORD

Offer to Recommend Appointment
- PDF
- WORD

Personal History
- PDF
- WORD

Criminal Background Check Policy and Consent Form
- Policy PDF
- Policy WORD
- Consent Form PDF
- Consent Form WORD

Vacancy Notice
- PDF
- WORD

Waiver Request
- PDF
- WORD

Award Nominations

Chancellors’ Professors and Tracy M. Sonneborn Award
(Letter of Intent Deadline: 11/4/2008; Full Dossier Deadline: 12/8/2008)
These professorships and the Sonneborn Award are meant to bring significant honor to those members of the faculty who have achieved local, national, and international distinction in both teaching and research/creative activity and their interaction.

Chancellor's Professors' Distinguished Masters Invited Lecture Series
(Deadline: 10/21/2008)
This program is designed to give our IUB Chancellor's Professors and Tracy Sonneborn Award Winners a special opportunity each year to invite a distinguished scholar from another institution who shares their passion for the integration of research, teaching and learning to the Bloomington campus to speak about engaging students in the inspiration of discovery and creative pursuit.
Distinguished Service Award (Deadline: 12/2/2008)
These annual awards recognize distinguished service to the University, a profession, discipline, or to the public and are intended to recognize service in the same way that other awards recognize distinguished teaching. The award should be given to a person whose service to the University has been demonstrated through consistently exceptional service typically extending over a period of at least five years with evidence that the service has resulted in greater effectiveness, efficiency, and/or visibility in an operation of the University as a result of the individual's efforts.

Grants & Fellowships

Fran Snygg Endowment Fund (Deadline: 10/31/2008)
This Fund will be used to support and promote modern dance and movement in the arts, including but not limited to support for visiting artists, student scholarships and/or travel, dance production support, supplies and equipment for dance programs and/or facilities, and creative projects in modern dance and movement.
1. Application
  - PDF
  - WORD
2. Guidelines
  - PDF
  - WORD
3. List of Past Award Winners
Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration (Deadline: 10/31/2008)
This award is to encourage artistic collaboration in conjunction with Arts Week and which illuminate the theme in some way. At least two different arts must be represented from two different schools or departments or between faculty members and professional artists in the Bloomington area.
1. Application
  - PDF
  - WORD
2. Guidelines
  - PDF
  - WORD
3. List of Past Award Winners
Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund (Deadline: 10/14/2008, 2/17/2009)
This fund is designed to provide support for new projects of full-time faculty and librarians from at least two different disciplines. Its purpose is to furnish seed money to help collaborative projects get underway and thereby to encourage interdisciplinary exchange, intellectual growth into new and multidisciplinary areas of inquiry, and external grant funding emanating from such activities.
Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards (Deadline: 10/14/2008)
These awards are designed to assist untenured, tenure-track faculty enhance their research programs. They will be given to junior faculty members who show promise of achieving great distinction as scholars or artists and also to recognize the achievements of junior faculty who have devoted considerable time to the teaching and service missions of the University and have developed nationally recognized research programs.
Sustainability Course Development Fellowship
(EXTENDED Deadline: 11/25/2008)
This award program supports faculty members' efforts to enhance teaching of topics related to sustainability and environmental literacy at the IU Bloomington campus. It will support innovative approaches to instruction of complex, interdisciplinary topics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Service-learning courses and those that involve application of principles of sustainability to the IU Bloomington campus are of particular interest. Faculty applying for the Sustainability and Environmental Literacy Leadership Award will not be excluded from applying for this award.

Sustainability and Environmental Literacy Leadership Award
(EXTENDED Deadline: 11/25/2008)
This award will be given to a team proposing a new teaching and learning initiative that promises to have a sustained impact upon sustainability research and education and that could serve as a model for further development of academic programs with sustainability-related themes on the IUB campus. It will be given in support and recognition of a collaborative program (intra- or inter-departmental) designed to broaden and deepen Indiana University's teaching and learning on topics related to environmental sustainability, resource stewardship, and environmental literacy. Special consideration will be given to proposals by departments or groups of faculty who propose new interdisciplinary academic programs in sustainability-related fields. Faculty applying for Sustainability Course Development Grants will not be excluded from applying for this award.

Summer Instructional Development Fellowships (Deadline: 1/30/2009)
This award program supports faculty members' efforts to improve teaching by encouraging new and/or improved approaches to instruction. Projects funded will include, but are not limited to: development of new, pace-setting courses; extensive innovation in the organization and style of existing courses; or development of new modes of instruction.
1. Application
2. Guidelines
3. List of Past Award Winners
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Funds
The Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Fund provides limited financial assistance in sponsoring lectures which are of interest to a large and diversified audience, particularly undergraduate students. Lectures should cross departmental and disciplinary lines and must be co-sponsored by at least two academic departments or units in addition to the sponsor.
NOTE: Please review the guidelines carefully for the funding distribution update.
1. Application
  - PDF
  - WORD
2. Guidelines
  - PDF
  - WORD
Active Learning Grants (Deadline: 2/20/2009)
These grants are awarded for the revision of an existing course or the creation of a new course that engages students more actively in learning. Bloomington campus full-time faculty are eligible. (For guidelines and application forms, see http://www.iub.edu/~iss/grants.shtml.)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants (Deadline: 3/6/2009)
These grants are awarded for new or ongoing in-depth, contextualized, and evidence-based studies into issues of teaching and learning as part of the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning Program (SOTL) at Indiana University. Bloomington campus full-time faculty are eligible. (For guidelines and application forms, see http://www.iub.edu/~iss/grants.shtml.)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership Award (Deadline: 5/22/2009)
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Leadership Award will be given to a team proposing a scholarship of teaching and learning research initiative that promises to have a sustained impact upon instructional development and education and that could serve as a model for others on campus. The team receiving this award will give a presentation of initial research results during the 2008�2009 campus colloquia series, as well as a final report the following year. The team will receive up to $35,000 to support activities detailed in the proposal. (For guidelines and application forms, see http://www.iub.edu/~iss/grants.shtml.)
Service-Learning Faculty Fellows (Deadline: 2/20/2009)
Awards will go to faculty who will become part of a learning community that explores issues related to service-learning and community-based research and will also serve as a resource for other instructors considering adopting a service-learning pedagogy or developing a community-based research design. Bloomington campus full-time faculty are eligible. (For guidelines and application forms, see http://www.iub.edu/~iss/grants.shtml.)
Writing-Teaching Grants (Deadline: 2/20/2009)
This grant program is dedicated to helping faculty design undergraduate courses that use writing in innovative and fruitful ways. Its purpose is to fund the efforts of faculty who wish to use writing to solve a pedagogical problem as well as to teach undergraduate students to express, to reformulate, or to apply the concepts of an academic discipline. Bloomington campus full-time faculty members are eligible. (For guidelines and application forms, see http://www.iub.edu/~iss/grants.shtml.)