MEMORANDUM 

To:                     Pitzer College Faculty Members 

From:                 Allen Omoto, Dean of Faculty  

Date:                  February 5, 2025

Re:                     SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE APPLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT 

The DoF is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Scholar-in-Residence positions. The details of the program and application process appear below. The deadline for complete applications is Monday, March 3, 2025, 11:59 pm. Please submit proposals at this link. If you cannot use this link, send the materials below in a PDF to dean_faculty@pitzer.edu. 

Up to two faculty members may be chosen to be Scholar(s)-in-Residence (SIR) for a single semester each during the 2025-2026 academic year. During their SIR semester, the faculty member will be released from regular committee and teaching responsibilities in order to pursue scholarly or artistic activities and to offer a seminar course. The seminar will be open to students and faculty and will center on the faculty member’s scholarly or artistic work. The aim of the seminar is to engage students in the process of creating knowledge or artistic work and to enable the faculty member to make substantive progress on a scholarly or artistic product by the end of the semester. Students enrolled in the seminar for credit will respond to the faculty member's work with written comments during the semester. 

The SIR will be chosen from the applicants by a committee consisting of faculty and student representatives from the Curriculum Committee and the Faculty Executive Committee, with the Dean of Faculty and an Associate Dean as ex-officio members. Proposals should be 3-5 pages in length and should 1) outline the nature of the planned scholarly or artistic activities, 2) provide an overview of the planned seminar, including the topics likely to be covered and how student performance will be evaluated, and 3) describe the value of the seminar to the College curriculum. In addition, an updated C.V. should accompany the proposal submission. Selection will be based on the following criteria: 

• The breadth of appeal of the topic
• The value of the seminar to the College curriculum
• The feasibility of the scholarly or artistic project
• The faculty member's research, service, and publication record 

The SIR will make regular progress reports to the Dean of Faculty during their appointment. In addition, a final report of 2-4 pages describing 1) progress made on the scholarly or artistic project and 2) evaluation of the seminar should be submitted within one semester of completing the SIR appointment. This report will be retained on file in the Dean of the Faculty Office as part of the faculty member’s personnel file. 

ELIGIBILITY 

All full-time faculty members on multi-year contracts through the term of the SIR appointment are eligible to apply with the following exceptions: 

• Faculty members on leave Spring 2025 are not eligible to be Scholar-in-Residence in the Fall of 2025.
• Faculty members who are on leave/sabbatical for one or both semesters of the academic year 2025-26 are not eligible to be Scholar-in Residence during the 2025-26 academic year.
• Previous Scholars-in-Residence are not eligible until five years after their term as Scholar-in-Residence and only if their final report is on file in the DoF. 

Preference will be given to faculty members who have not had a recent leave and to faculty who are not eligible for a leave in 2026-27. Please note that the semester identified for the SIR appointment should be the semester in which the faculty member is scheduled to have a two-course teaching load (consistent with expectations for sabbatical leaves). The Field Group of the selected SIR will receive one course replacement to be used in the semester the selected faculty member serves as SIR.