Call for Proposals

Co-Sponsored Skidmore Faculty Residency
from the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning and
the Office of Special Programs

About the CLTL/OSP Sponsored Faculty Residency

The Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning, and the Office of Special Programs have formalized a partnership to support a semesterlong Skidmore faculty residency for spring of 2019. This residency connects Special Programs’ guest artist/scholar residency model with the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning’s faculty development programming. This innovative residency affords Skidmore faculty members the opportunity to propose residency programming that best relates to their research and/or creative projects with the aim to explore new possibilities for connectivity and collaboration with students, faculty, and the larger community. The DOF, CLTL, and OSP expect this to be a full-semester, full-time residency, which integrates, among other programming, a guest presenter whose expertise intersects with the Skidmore faculty’s topic and goals for the semester residency.

Eligibility

All full-time Skidmore College faculty are eligible to apply.

Objectives and Expectations

• To offer one Skidmore faculty member the opportunity to share his/her/their research and/or creative and artistic project with students, faculty, and the community. The semester’s activities might take the form of public talks, performances, or exhibits. The faculty resident might also facilitate student panels or organize a conference on campus.
• To bring a presenter to campus during the residency who will engage with the Skidmore community through a series of public events. The presenter might attend classes and offer a public lecture, exhibit, or performance.

Proposal Guidelines

Proposals should be no more than three single-spaced pages and should be submitted as a PDF file to Grace Burton (gburton@skidmore.edu) and Michelle Paquette-Deuel (mpaquett@skidmore.edu). Your proposal should include the following:

• Your name, department, and email address
• Title of your residency project
• A description of the scholarship and/or your artistic project you wish to explore during the residency
• A discussion of how you will engage with the community during the residency semester (seminars, faculty-to-faculty talks, conferences, exhibits, performances, etc.)
• Names and short descriptions of potential external presenters and their activities while they are on campus
• In addition to your proposal, a letter of support from your department chair or program director. (Because backfill for one-semester course releases is not automatic, department chairs or program directors should give a brief explanation of how the course releases will affect department or program offerings.)

Course Releases and Funding

OSP and the CLTL have received approval from the DOF/VPAA’s office to support two course releases for the Skidmore Faculty Residency semester. OSP and the CLTL will fund the external presenter’s honorarium, travel, and accommodation expenses up to $12,000 while they are on campus.

Timeline for Proposal Submission and Selection

The deadline for submission of proposals for the spring 2019 residency is March 30, 2018. Proposals will be selected based on their relevance to the residency objectives. An advisory committee composed of faculty and administrators will review all proposals and make the final funding decision. All faculty who submit proposals will be notified of the committee’s determination by April 27, 2018. The selected faculty resident should work directly with their department chair to schedule course releases for the residency semester.

Administrative Support from OSP and the CLTL

The CLTL and OSP will work in close coordination with the faculty resident to provide administrative support for the external presenter’s visit, including contract negotiation, scheduling, travel, accommodations, and catering.

Residency Summary

At the end of the semester, the Skidmore faculty resident will be expected to write a short (three to five pages) reflection of their residency, highlighting progress made and tangible outcomes (e.g. papers, presentations, exhibits, performances).