EOSA Application Process

THE 2025-26 EOSA APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 5:00 P.M., MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2024. 

EOSA Application Information:

EOSA Application (Qualtrics)
EOSA Application (PDF)

 

Any number of faculty per college/school/center/institute may apply. The Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy provides professional development that enables faculty to develop mutually beneficial scholarship with a community partner that results in peer-reviewed scholarly publications, extramural grant funding, curricular materials, and/or other scholarly activities.

The following East Carolina faculty members are eligible to apply to the Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy:

  • Permanently tenured faculty;
  • Faculty on tenure track; and
  • Faculty who are on a fixed term with five years of employment at ECU.

The goal of the selection process is to select an interprofessional cohort, representative of the colleges and schools at ECU. Participants include fixed term faculty, new and junior faculty, and experienced faculty who want to develop expertise in engaged scholarship.

The selection committee reviews nominations based upon the faculty member’s documentation of:

  • An active research agenda and responsibility for conducting research;
  • A clear desire to incorporate engaged scholarship into their research agenda;
  • The capacity to disseminate the results of their research to a broad audience;
  • A commitment to actively participate during fall workshops, to implement of the research proposal in the spring and summer and to continue support of engaged scholarship at ECU; and
  • A desire to mentor students in the engaged research process.

Applications will be reviewed by the EOSA Selection Committee composed of EOSA alumni and current engaged scholars.