July 6, 2026
News
Fall Due Dates for Leave Requests, Grant Opportunities
LEAVE OF ABSENCE REQUESTS: Tenured, tenure-track, PEAR and continuing faculty members who wish to request a sabbatical or other leave of absence for all or part of academic year 2027-28 should do so by October 1, 2026. Guidelines for expectations while on a leave and the request forms for sabbatical and professional leaves are available on the Provost’s Office website. Please note that medical or personal leaves of absence should now be requested through Workday.
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS: Faculty members are invited to submit proposals for support through several different funds. Some of these opportunities have rolling deadlines, but the following have a September 11, 2026 deadline:
- Faculty development endowment (FDE) grants
- Large FDE grants (up to one term’s salary): Support for scholarship, research, and creative activity in any field for tenured, tenure-track and PEAR faculty.
- Small FDE grants for the same purposes as the large.
- Targeted Opportunity Grants: Course release(s), stipend, or expenses for scholarly, creative, or pedagogical work that falls outside the more traditional large FDE or small grants.
Please note that the Grants Office is also available to help with internal grant applications.
Faculty Traveling Internationally
If you are planning international travel during the summer, please fill out this form. If you encounter any travel-related challenges leaving or returning to the United States, the Provost’s Office will be able to provide confirmation to immigration and border control agents about your ongoing employment at Carleton College as well as to offer you referrals for other forms of support, should they prove necessary. Please indicate whether the travel involves Carleton funding or personal travel. Faculty who are not US citizens should check the guidance on the immigration response website. If you have questions after reviewing this information, please contact the Provost’s Office and we can connect you with our immigration attorney.
Advising
Advising Assignments and Changes
Departments and programs may continue to make advising assignment changes through July 15; however, I ask that all such changes be communicated to our office by email. From July 15 through September 1, departments and programs should not make any changes to advising assignments without first consulting with Melissa Eblen-Zayas. This advising allocation freeze will enable us to reassign sophomore advisees and finalize advising assignments for the Class of 2030.
Faculty and staff advising first-year students in the upcoming academic year will receive information from our office about their advising assignments and the number of students assigned to them later in July. Please mark your calendars with the dates and information below regarding New Student Week responsibilities for first-year advisers.
Advising First-Year Students and New Student Week Information
If you will be on campus for the full 2026–27 academic year, you are eligible to advise first-year students. Generally, faculty with 15 or more advisees or those in departments with large numbers of majors are not asked to take on more advisees. Second-year faculty are typically assigned eight first-year advisees, and new staff advisers are assigned five. If you’re already at these advising levels, you will not be asked to take on more. Faculty on Continuing Appointments (FOCA) have been contacted directly about their advising preferences.
If you are not excluded by the criteria above, you will likely be asked to be on campus during New Student Week to begin your role as a first-year adviser for the Class of 2030.
Please be aware of the following dates and times to accommodate faculty who will need to balance their other responsibilities with their duties as advisers. All advisers should make a note of the annual advising workshop in Weitz 236 on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
- Thursday, September 3–Friday, September 4, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.: New adviser training (only second-year faculty or new staff advisers are committed to this), Alumni Guest House
- Wednesday, Sept. 9, 8:30–10:00 a.m.: Annual Advising Workshop, Weitz 236
- Wednesday, Sept. 9, 12:30–1:30 p.m.: Group Advising Meetings (first-year students and their new advisers), various locations
- Thursday, Sept. 10, (TBD): Individual Advising Meetings (one-on-one meetings between first-year students and their new advisers), location is adviser’s choice
- Thursday, Sept. 10, 3:30–5:00 p.m.: Academic Fair, Rec Center
- Friday, Sept. 11, (TBD): Individual Advising Meetings (one-on-one meetings between first-year students and their new advisers), location is adviser’s choice
Advising Quick Links
- Advising Handbook
- Forms and Decision Trees
- Advising Contacts
- Graduation & Major Requirements
- Academic Rules and Regulations
- Off-Campus Study Programs
- Career Center Resources for Faculty & Advisers
- Office of Student Fellowships ‘For Advisors’ Page
Grants and Fellowships
Fall External Grant Opportunities
The fall brings multiple external grant opportunities for humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty at Carleton. Each program is unique: ACLS Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, and residential opportunities at the National Humanities Center and the Stanford Humanities Center, to name a few, all with deadlines in September and October. If you are looking for support for sabbatical time during 2027–28, now is the time to begin planning your fall applications. Please reach out to the Grants Office – we can help determine which programs might be the best fit for your work and assist with the application process.