The purpose of Scholar Incentive Awards is to facilitate and document scholarly research. Applications that reflect other purposes, such as meeting degree requirements, service outside the University, or other professional, career or personal reasons, shall not be considered for these Awards.
Eligibility for Scholar Incentive Award:
Full-time instructional staff member in an eligible title (Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Instructor, Lecturer, University Professor, Distinguished Professor and Medical Series) must have completed not less than one full year of continuous paid full time service before becoming eligible for a Scholar Incentive Award. A candidate shall be eligible for a subsequent Scholar Incentive Award after six years of creditable service with the University since the completion of the last Scholar Incentive Award. A Scholar Incentive Award may not be held concurrently with a Fellowship Leave.
Untenured faculty awarded and accepting a Scholar Incentive Award will have their tenure clock extended by one-year, as a Scholar Incentive Award serves as a bridge if it is immediately preceded by full-time continuous service creditable for tenure or a Certificate of Continuous Employment.
The eligible faculty member may be compensated by the University for up to 25% of annual salary rate. The total amount of money earnable with outside support and the University salary may not exceed 100% of the annual salary rate that the person would have received without the leave. The amount may be less than 25% if the amount of any outside fellowship and grant support received would result in earnings above 100% of salary.
Eligible faculty planning leaves and holding outside research grants providing less than full salary are candidates for Scholar Incentive Awards. In the absence of such outside grant or fellowship support, the faculty member would need to be able and willing to provide self‐support for the remaining 75% or more of salary, and the research proposed by the faculty member would also have to be evaluated and endorsed, in letters solicited by the College, by two “outside experts”.
Scholar Incentive Awards Memo- Academic Year 2026-2027
Application for Scholar Incentive Award
Guidelines in Approving Applications for Scholar Incentive Awards
