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AAUP Residency Program (Mellon Foundation Funded)

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Overview

AAUP Residency Program

Status: Active professional development program

Geographic Scope: International; open to staff at AAUP member presses

Focus Areas: Professional development through intensive, hands-on residencies in scholarly publishing

Program Description:
The AAUP Residency Program encourages professional development of scholarly publishing staff through intensive, hands-on residencies at hosting member presses. Residents spend up to one week (formerly up to five days) immersed with skill-specific experts and innovators at host presses. The program is designed to foster professional exchange that contributes intellectual stimulation and problem-solving ideas to both the host and home press.

Eligibility:

  • Full-time staff at AAUP member presses

  • Minimum two years of university press experience

  • Open to all departments and skill levels

    • Funding History:

  • Originally funded by the Mrs. Giles F. Whiting Foundation (since 1997)

  • Currently supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  • Has sponsored 115+ residents since inception in 1997

  • Three-year funding secured from Mellon Foundation through 2016

    • Contact Information:

  • Susan Patton, spatton@aaupnet.org, 212-989-1010 x25

  • AAUP Central Office: 212-989-1010

  • Email: info@aupresses.org

    • How to Apply

    Application Process

    Key Questions Applicants Must Address:

  • What skills do you wish to learn or improve during the proposed residency?

  • How will these new or enhanced skills benefit your development as a publishing professional and/or how would they benefit your home press?

  • Why is the proposed host well suited to providing the desired environment?

  • Are these goals uniquely able to be met through this residency?

    • Evaluation:

  • Applications reviewed by AAUP Professional Development Committee

  • Committee selects residents to participate

  • Residents and hosts represent wide spectrum of geography, size, and structure found in AAUP membership

    • Application Submission:

  • Submit to AAUP Central Office

  • Deadline varies by year (typically late May)

    • Post-Residency:

  • Residents complete residency and return to home press

  • Program encourages sharing of learnings within home institution

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    professional-development

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