I am a senior faculty member. What are the eligibility requirements for applying for the Henderson Senior Research Fellowship?
Senior faculty members are eligible to apply at two different times in the regular cycle of sabbatical leaves. If you are eligible for an earned sabbatical next year and wish to extend that semester into a full year of research leave, you may apply to the Foundation to fund the second semester. If you are between sabbatical leaves, you may apply to the Foundation to fund a semester’s release from teaching during the next academic year, in order to complete a research project in progress or to advance a new project already underway. Eligibility is determined as follows: • In the fall semester of the application year, you must have completed at least four and no more than six semesters of teaching since your last sabbatical; • At the time you take up your fellowship, you must have completed at least six and no more than eight semesters of teaching since your last sabbatical. Holding a fellowship won in either of these cycles does not make you ineligible to apply in another cycle. All fac
