Endowed Faculty Funds
Waple Professorship in the College of Business
Eligibility and Availability:
Any tenured or tenure-track faculty member at UMW is eligible to apply. There will be one award in the College of Business for a two-year Professorship to begin in the 2024-25 academic year.
Purpose:
To pursue a project during the two-year tenure of the professorship. Projects may include basic, applied, integrative, or pedagogy research.
Due Date:
Monday, December 11, 2023, by end of day.
Application Must Include:
- Description of project (maximum 1500 words)
- Abstract of project description (150 words)
- Clear timeline for project that will be carried out
- Current CV of applicant
- Budget
- number and timing of course releases (maximum 2/year)
- cost of survey participants, databases, software
- cost of travel related to the project
* Note that all of the above will be subtracted from the stipend carried by the Professorship.
- Signature of Associate Dean to indicate that the College supports the project and any arrangements necessary to accommodate the requested release time from teaching
Selection Criteria:
- Quality of the proposed project
- Appropriateness of timeline to the project
- Record of success in publications
Selection Process:
The Dean and Associate Dean of the College of Business will review all applications and make recommendations to the Provost’s Office for final adjudication. The Provost’s Office will also receive recommendations from the Committee on Sabbaticals, Fellowships, and Faculty Awards of the University Faculty Council.
The Waple Professorship carries a stipend of about $12,000 per year (actual award amount to be determined when the UMW Foundation Board sets the budget spending policy for all endowed accounts) which can be used, per the candidate’s discretion and as designated in the budget proposal, as a salary stipend, as research support, or as course release time (a maximum of two courses annually). When subtracting an amount for course releases, the University assigns a cost equivalent to the actual salary paid for adjunct replacement. The successful applicant may use the research support fund for any combination travel, software and/or databases, equipment, and other professional expenses.
Faculty who are on or expect to be on a sabbatical or Jepson Fellowship or some other form of educational/research leave are eligible to apply, although it is unlikely that a candidate would be recommended to receive two awards for the same project.
University policy stipulates that faculty cannot earn more than 33% of their contracted salary from other sources during the academic year (from grants, summer teaching, UMW research stipends, etc.). Faculty should consider this information when deciding on the amounts they wish to budget for supplies, course buyouts, travel, and the salary supplement.
An announcement will be made in early February of the faculty selected for the Waple Professorship.