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Nominations for Penn Fellows and Mellon Fellows Accepted Through February 15, 2022

The Office of the Provost requests nominations for the fourteenth cohort of Penn Fellows and the second cohort of Mellon Fellows.

Penn Fellows Program

The Penn Fellows program provides select mid-career faculty (newly tenured to early full professors) with opportunities to develop their leadership skills, build networks, think strategically, and interact with campus leaders. It also promotes an interdisciplinary network of support for participants as they move through their careers. Previous Penn Fellows have subsequently served as deans, department chairs, and vice provosts.

Mellon Fellows Program

The Mellon Fellows Program, with financial support from the Mellon Foundation, supports mid-career faculty (newly tenured to early full professors) in core humanities and arts disciplines, from departments that are strongly inflected by the humanities, and/or whose work is strongly based on cultural/historical analysis. The program is intended to introduce arts and humanities faculty to the fundamentals of leadership roles, encourage collaboration and community across departments and disciplines, and build the next generation of higher education leaders imbibed with humanistic culture and values.

Expectations

Participants are expected to participate in the leadership development sessions created for these programs. These sessions will be scheduled over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year. Participants will also be invited to participate in the Provost’s Leadership Academy.

Qualifications

Candidates for both programs should be mid-career faculty (newly tenured to early full professors) with a demonstrated record of academic excellence, administrative leadership potential, and interest in higher education leadership. Of particular interest are faculty who have not yet held senior higher education leadership positions, faculty from groups that are historically underrepresented in higher education leadership, and faculty who can further contribute to the excellence and diversity of our campus leadership.

The Mellon Fellows program is limited to faculty in core humanities and arts disciplines, from departments that are strongly inflected by the humanities, and/or whose work is strongly based on cultural/historical analysis.

Request for Nominations

For 2022-2023, we seek to select approximately 15 faculty members for each program.

Nominations should be submitted to provost-fac@upenn.edu by February 15, 2022. Nominations should identify the preferred program and include the candidate’s curriculum vitae and a letter of support from their dean or department chair. Previously nominated candidates may be re-nominated.

Please direct questions to Connie Chang at conniech@upenn.edu.

—Office of the Provost

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