Faculty Fellowships

Montclair State University recognizes the importance of prestigious fellowships to support the professional development of faculty and enhance the prominence of the University. In order to ameliorate the financial obstacles that sometimes prevent otherwise eligible faculty from pursuing such opportunities, the University encourages faculty members to apply for fellowships and sabbaticals for the same period of time. In addition, the University will provide the support described below to a full-time faculty member who has received, in a competitive process, a fellowship from an organization on the Approved Organization list that requires an absence of at least one full semester and who meets the conditions enumerated below.

7.1 Support to Recipients of Fellowships

7.1.1 Faculty members who receive a prestigious fellowship whose fellowship monies do not cover the faculty member's salary and benefits may apply for additional support under this program. That support would make up the shortfall if the stipend paid the faculty member by the fellowship were less than the faculty member's normal salary would be for the fellowship period.

The faculty member may, if eligible, apply for a sabbatical at the same time as the fellowship. Faculty eligible for sabbatical shall indicate on their application for support under this program whether or not they are also applying for the sabbatical. In the event that the faculty member who is eligible for a sabbatical does not apply for the sabbatical, the Provost, after consultation with the graduate dean, the appropriate school/college dean and the faculty member's department shall decide whether the faculty member shall receive the support set forth herein.

In any case, travel, research and/or other expenses paid by the fellowship shall be excluded from the salary calculation.

7.1.2 The University will continue the faculty member's normal benefits if these are not provided for by the fellowship.

7.1.3 Faculty who are currently participating in the FSP and who are approved for faculty fellowship support may request an extension of the FSP for one additional year.

7.2 Procedures Applicable to Receipt of Fellowship Support

7.2.1 The faculty member's tenure clock and years of service credit will continue during the fellowship period.

7.2.2 The faculty member must inform his/her chair, dean, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs/Office of Development (as appropriate) of his/her intent to apply for the fellowship two months in advance of the fellowship deadline; receive a commitment of the University resources from the Provost; complete the application process, including the standard grant routing sheet two weeks in advance of deadline; and inform the chair, dean, the Office or Research and Sponsored Programs/Office of Development (as appropriate), and the Office of the Provost immediately upon notice of award or non-award of the fellowship.

7.2.3 If the fellowship opportunity being pursued by the faculty member does not appear on the approved list, it must first meet the following criteria to be considered for University support:

1) the sponsoring organization must be held in high regard by the academic community for fostering scholarship of the highest quality,

2) the faculty applicant will have to have earned his/her fellowship in a competitive process of national scope, and

3) there can be no intervening parties/organizations between the sponsoring organization and the awardee.

If the fellowship opportunity does meet the criteria set forth above, the faculty member may request of his/her department their recommendation to the Provost that the faculty member be funded under the provisions set forth in this document in the section entitled "Support to Recipients of Fellowships."

7.3 List of Approved Organizations

USIA/Department of State ­ Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright awards)
Guggenheim Foundation
Kellogg Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Mellon Foundation (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships)
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation