The James McKeen Cattell Eligibility Requirements

The James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowships for psychologists provide funds to supplement the regular sabbatical allowance provided by the recipients' home institutions. The maximum award is limited to the lesser of (1) half the recipient's salary for the academic year, (2) an amount less than half salary that will bring the total of the university allowance plus the award up to the individual's normal academic-year salary, or (3) a ceiling of $30,000.

James McKeen Cattell Fund awards are available to psychologists who are faculty members at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and are eligible, according to the regulations of their own institutions, for a sabbatical leave or its equivalent. Eligible candidates must be either tenured faculty members or nontenured associate professors in a tenure-track position. Ordinarily, awards are made to persons who have been continuously employed in an academic teaching or administrative position for the previous five years. The Fund has a strong preference for supporting applicants who have not had a leave with outside support during that period. Prior recipients of a Cattell Fund Award are not eligible. Recipients are requested to submit to the Secretary/Treasurer a brief report of their activities as soon as possible after the end of their sabbaticals.

Candidates for Cattell awards submit their applications to the Secretary/Treasurer of the Fund. The deadline for submission is December 1 of the year preceding that in which the applicant expects to be on leave. For a sample application form, click on the file name http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattappl.html. In addition to the application, the Secretary/Treasurer must receive by December 1 supporting letters from two references (see http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattref.html), and a form completed by the applicant's department chair or dean, certifying the applicant's eligibility for a leave (see http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattcert.html). Applicants receive a notification of the Trustees' decisions by about March 1.

For The James McKeen Cattell Fund Home Page, click on the file name http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattell.html

For the Cattell Fund History Page, click on the file name http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/catthist.html

For a Cattell Fellowship Application Form, click on the file name http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattappl.html

For an Institution Certification form, click on the file name http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattcert.html

For a memo concerning references, click on the file name http://www.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattref.html

For names of prior Cattell Fellowship Recipients, click on the file name http://www.psych.unc.edu/depts/quantpsy/cattrecip.html