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University Sabbaticals, Fellowships & Faculty Awards Committee

2025-2026 DUE DATES

  • Jepson Fellowship applications: September 8, 2025*
  • Sabbatical applications: September 8, 2025
  • Waple Professorship applications: December 8, 2025 (applications are solicited by email in fall semester and submitted to college deans)
  • Faculty Awards nominations:
    • March 13, 2026 for the Board of Visitors Faculty Leadership Award
    • March 27, 2026 for all other faculty awards

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Officer Year Complete Name email Rank College Dept
*Colleges elect these positions
2028 Andi Smith alsmith@umw.edu Professor Arts & Sciences Historic Preservation
2028 Maria Laura Bocaz mbocazle@umw.edu Associate Professor Arts & Sciences Modern Languages & Literature
2026 Christy Irish cirish@umw.edu Associate Professor Education College of Education
2026 John Marsh jmarsh@umw.edu Associate Professor Business College of Business
2027 Janet Asper jasper@umw.edu Professor Arts & Sciences Chemistry

EX-OFFICIO MEMBER

Victoria Russell, Director, Center for Teaching

DUTIES

UMW Faculty Handbook § 2.6.7:  The committee’s duties are to:

.1 Recommend to the Provost which sabbatical applications (as sent forward to the Provost from the deans) and which Jepson Fellowship proposals should be presented to the Board of Visitors for their approval and subsequent funding;

.2 Recommend to the Provost the faculty members who should receive the Grellet C. Simpson Award, the Graduate Faculty Award, the Outstanding Young Faculty Award, and the Topher Bill Service Award;

.3 Recommend to the Provost which faculty members should be selected as UMW’s nominees for the SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award;

.4 Study and recommend to the University Faculty Council and the Provost, as appropriate, changes in policies, application procedures, and evaluation criteria to be applied concerning university-wide faculty development grants, sabbaticals, Jepson Fellowships, and UMW faculty awards; and

.5 Perform other duties as assigned by the University Faculty Council.