Iowa-Montpellier English Department Faculty Exchange

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Criteria for Selection

Approved by the UI English Department Executive Committee, 11/28/00

1. Every fall when an exchange is possible, the chair of the Exchanges Committee will send out a call to all faculty in English inviting them to apply for the Montpellier exchange in the following academic year.
2. The exchange professor will be selected by the Chair of the Exchanges Committee and the Department Chair with the advice of the Executive Committee following the guidelines laid out below.
3. All faculty applying for the exchange are encouraged to read the summary of procedures explaining customary exchange procedures and should note, in particular, that they will be expected to teach in Montpellier for the spring semester (mid-February to early June); to teach either two courses or three (with one a repeat), with the language of instruction English; that, in place of their existing salary, they will be paid by the French government a salary that will be determined by the French ministry (and is unlikely to be equal to their US salary); that they will be expected to make their own arrangements for transport and accommodation, with some guidance from the English Department at Montpellier. Further details about the position are available from the Chair of the Exchanges Committee.
4. If more than one faculty member applies for the exchange in a year, selection will be made based on the following criteria:
    
   1. Curriculum needs at Iowa will have paramount importance. For this reason, any faculty on an Iowa Fellowship or with other recurrent leaves will not normally be given high priority for the exchange.
   2. Priority will be given to those faculty who have least recently participated in a faculty exchange program.
   3. If the stay in Montpellier would particularly aid a colleague’s research project, this should be a factor in favor of their selection.
   4. Where possible, the selection should favor colleagues whose application in previous years was not accepted.