Policy on Supplementation of Major Outside Fellowship Awards
For Letters and Science and School of Education Faculty Only
To insure that faculty are able to accept prestigious outside fellowship awards without a substantial income reduction, the Graduate School partners with the College of Letters and Science and the School of Education to supplement the salaries of recipients of the following major fellowship awards:
NEH, Guggenheim, ACLS
Supplementation will be provided based on the approved salary for the year the award is taken, minus the total amount granted by the agency for the fellowship (example: $45,000 salary minus $35,000 fellowship = $10,000 supplement). Calculations will be made as follows: Letters & Science or School of Education will provide up to 2/9ths salary; the Graduate School will match the college/school supplement up to 2/9ths, subject to the recipient's eligibility for salary funds through the Graduate School's Research Committee competition. The total award cannot exceed the Regents approved academic year (9 month) salary. (Example: $45,000 salary minus $35,000 fellowship = $10,000 supplement: 1/9th or $5,000 from College plus 1/9th or $5,000 from the Graduate School.) If the outside fellowship will be taken for a semester, the supplementations will be based on half the academic year salary.
Applicants for one of the above awards are encouraged to submit an application to the Graduate School's Research Committee Fall Competition for supplementation funding and may request funding other than the academic year salary supplementation (summer salary, PA, flexible funds for research, etc.), or for insurance against the outside award. Summer salary awards would count in calculating the recipient's eligibility.
To request supplementation, recipients should notify the appropriate deans in their college/school and in the Graduate School as soon as they learn of receipt of the award.
For awards other than those named above, supplementation must be sought on an individual basis directly through the Graduate School's Research Committee Fall Competition and/or directly to the school or college, and is not guaranteed. Applicants should note on their research applications that an outside fellowship award is pending or to-be-submitted, and indicate the average stipend awarded by the agency.