Mid-Career Post-Tenure Fellowship

Mid-Career Post-Tenure Fellowship on a red ribbon

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 15.18). 

The award may be scheduled in conjunction with an approved sabbatical leave, thereby yielding a full year of leave at full salary. 

Recipients must submit a brief summary of their fellowship activities to the Office of Faculty Development. If the MCPT Fellowship is combined with a sabbatical, sharing a Post-Leave Sabbatical Report will suffice.

Applications for 2026-27 are now closed. The Provost will award up to five (5) fellowships for the 2026-27 academic year by February 1, 2026.

MCPT Fellowship Recipients

In the news

2025-26 Mid-Career Post-Tenure (MCPT) Fellowships Awarded to Five UMass Amherst Associate Professors
The Office of Faculty Development is pleased to announce that Provost Fouad Abd-El-Khalick has selected five UMass Amherst faculty to receive the Mid-Career Post-Tenure (MCPT) Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year: Associate Professors Angélica María Bernal, John Francisco, Jennifer McDermott
March 6, 2025
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
Angela de Oliveira

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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.
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