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 office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs: vpfaa@indiana.edu, 855-2809. (Adobe Acrobat Reader required to read pdf files click here to download Acrobat Reader)
(Letter of Intent Deadline: 11/3/2009; Full Dossier Deadline: 12/7/2009)
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.
(Deadline: 10/20/2009) NOTE: EXTENDED DEADLINE - 10/30/2009
This program is designed to give our IUB Provost'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
(Deadline: Monday, March 8, 2010)
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.
(Deadline: 10/13/2009)
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.
(Deadline: 10/30/2009)
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.
(Deadline: 10/30/2009)
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.
(Deadline: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 and Tuesday, February 16, 2010)
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.
(Deadline: 11/24/2009) NOTE: Extended Deadline - 2/1/2010
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.
(Deadline: 1/29/2010)
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.
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. Please review the guidelines carefully for the funding
distribution update.