This bargained, competitively awarded fellowship provides a research-intensive semester to associate professors whose service and teaching responsibilities have exceeded the norm. Award recipients are provided with one semester of release from teaching responsibilities, department obligations, and college service (CBA Article 15.16).
The award may be scheduled in conjunction with an approved sabbatical leave, thereby yielding a full year of leave at full salary.
Call for applications are made in the fall and are administered by the Office of Faculty Development. Applications are short and require department chair/head and dean approval.
MCPT Fellowship Recipients
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2024-25 Mid-Career Post-Tenure Fellowships Awarded to Five UMass Amherst Faculty
Provost Fouad Abd-El-Khalick has selected five UMass Amherst faculty to receive the Mid-Career Post-Tenure (MCPT) Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year: Associate Professors Amel Ahmed, Joshua Braun, Hoang Phan, Jacquie Kurland, and Angela Willey.
August 28, 2024
Mid-Career Post-Tenure Fellowships Awarded to Five UMass Amherst Faculty
Provost Serio has selected six associate professors to receive the competitive fellowship for the 2023–24 academic year: Gülru Çakmak, Laura Furlan, Amanda Marcotte, Lauren McCarthy, and Jeff Parker.
January 31, 2023
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Angela de Oliveira
Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Professor of Resource Economics
Dr. Angela C.M. de Oliveira provides vision and leadership for the Office of Faculty Development, focusing especially on leadership development, mentoring, mid-career, awards and recognition, as well as community, inclusion, and wellness programs to support healthy, equitable, thriving faculty and departments.