The Graduate School
2008-2009 Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program
The University of Texas at Austin is collaborating in a Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program to stimulate scholarly initiatives among the universities that became affiliated through formation of the Big XII Athletic Conference. The program offers faculty the opportunity to travel to member institutions to exchange ideas and pursue research. Faculty visits will ordinarily be for about two weeks, but longer or shorter visits are possible. The visitor's home university pays for the trip. You can apply to the Office of Graduate Studies for funding to visit another Big XII university, or you can invite a faculty member from another Big XII university to come here.
IF YOU WANT TO APPLY FOR FUNDING TO BECOME A FACULTY FELLOW AT ANOTHER BIG XII UNIVERSITY DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2008-2009 (September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2009):- Eligibility: All tenured or tenure-track faculty, or those who have been in non-tenure-track faculty positions at UT Austin for at least six years, are eligible to apply.
- Procedure for applying:
Use the attached application form
(pdf format)*. (If you would prefer having this form mailed
to you, contact Maggie Keeshen at 232-3608 or mkeeshen@mail.utexas.edu.)
You will need to supply a vita, a summary of the activities
to be pursued at the other university, and an invitation
from the sponsoring unit at the host university. Send everything
to Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program, Graduate School, G0400
(FAX 471-7620). All applications are due by Friday, April 25, 2008, and results will be announced shortly thereafter. We anticipate that all available funds will be given out at this time, but if funds remain, additional applications will be considered until December 1, 2008. - Funding available: Up to $2,500 to help defray allowable expenses for the trip, including transportation, lodging, meals, and incidentals. Fund are for travel that occurs between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009.
- Report: After the visit you will submit a brief report to the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, describing outcomes of the visit and possibly making suggestions for future planning.
- Please have the potential visitor contact his or her provost's office to confirm that the Big XII Faculty Fellowship is available at their home institution.
- If this program is available at his or her home institution, your department, research center, school or other unit should issue a letter of invitation to the prospective Big XII Faculty Fellow. This letter should specify the dates and any particular expectations for the Fellow (lectures to be given, collaborations to be undertaken, etc.).
- Once the Fellow has been approved for funding by his or her home institution, your unit should send a letter requesting that the Fellow be named a Visiting Scholar at UT, so that the Fellow can be provided with a temporary identification card, library privileges, etc. Send the Visiting Scholar request, with a vita, to the Visiting Scholar Program, Office of Graduate Studies, G0400.
- As host of the Fellow, you will be in charge of making arrangements for housing, office space, etc.
For questions, contact Marvin Hackert (m.hackert@mail.utexas.edu, 232-3604).
Big XII Faculty Fellowship Forms
- Mail or fax the application form (pdf format)* with your supporting materials to: Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program, The Graduate School, MAI 101, G0400 (fax: 512-471-7620).
- Approved Fellows will be eligible to receive up to $2,500 to help defray allowable expenses for their trips, including transportation, lodging, meals, and incidentals. Approved Fellows should file a Request for Cash Advance (pdf format)* with this office at least two weeks prior to their visit.
*The application form and Request for Cash Advance are in .pdf format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or newer). Both forms can be completed online and then printed. Download free software from Adobe to access online forms.
