Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The final series in Monts' files is the Awards series. This series documents awards and funding given to faculty members, with the exception of the Rhodes/Marshall/Mitchell Scholars, which is awarded to graduate students to study in the United Kingdom. Candidates are nominated by their universities and compete at the national level. Faculty awards in the series include the following: discretionary funding, which provides funding to faculty from the Senior Vice Provost's office; the Faculty Award for Research and Creative Projects (FARCP); Faculty Career Development Awards (FCDA), which support recipients in pursuing research and scholarly activities by providing financial resources for travel, materials, and other equipment; the Harold Johnson Diversity Service award, established in 1996 to honor faculty that contribute to diversity on campus; the King/Chavez/Parks award, funded by the state of Michigan to increase representation of minorities in the faculty pool for higher education; the Lecturers' Professional Development Fund (LPDF), awarded through the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, which supports improvements to teaching and curriculum; presidential professors, a program established to facilitate visits from distinguished artists and scholars to the campus, with particular interest in minority guests; and the Thurnau Professor award. More information and documentation on Thurnau professorships may be found in other collections, including the Provost's Supplemental Files.

The Awards series is arranged alphabetically within each year. The exception to this is the Rhodes/Marshall/Mitchell awards, which is arranged by year and alphabetically as appropriate. Materials on student applicants is placed alphabetically under students, then arranged by year. The years are those in which the students applied, the award being granted the following year. For discretionary funding and the Faculty Career Development Award, only files reflecting faculty research and campus academics were retained in the collection as documentation of faculty activity at the University. The Faculty Awards for Research and Creative Projects span the years 1993-1996; for later years, researchers should consult the Vice Provost for Academic and Multicultural Affairs records.