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OVERVIEW

The CoLA Office of Research & Scholarship (CORS), through its Research Support Office (RSO), assists faculty members who are seeking external fellowships. The CoLA External Fellowship guidelines below, and related Co-Sponsored External Fellowship guidelines (CSEF) outline that the most important aspect of applying for external fellowships is providing advance notice to your Chair in order to address your ability to pursue and accept external fellowships and the leaves and/or releases from instruction that are typically required alongside them.

Secondarily, CoLA's Senior Associate Dean for Research has identified that advance notice to CoLA's contracts & grants team (RSO) is important due to the general nature of external fellowships. The RSO team assesses whether or not problematic or concerning terms exist within an external fellowship, and can help determine if applying is feasible. Though rare, there have been cases of faculty members applying and being selected for a fellowship they ultimately were not able to accept due to conditions that were not in the recipient's best interests, or that were problematic for the University, College and/or Department.

Often, external fellowships are required to be administered through the university, which is also a process handled by CoLA RSO (for all units that do not have in-house research administration support). Some fellowships give faculty members options for how they'd like to receive fellowship funds, and still others prefer or even require issuing funds to an individual, outside of the university. How would these decisions impact you? With advance notice, we can alert you to concerns, and help you make decisions that make the most sense for you. 

GUIDELINES

The following guidelines apply to all faculty applying for external fellowships, regardless of intent to apply for a CoLA Co-Sponsored External Fellowship (CSEF) award:

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