A Record 67 Adjuncts Win Guggenheim Fellowships
by P.D. Lesko On April 6, 2016, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced that, “in its ninety-second competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 175 Fellowships (including three joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants.” The fellowships are not limited to faculty on the tenure-track and each year lecturers, adjunct and visiting faculty apply for and win the prestigious awards. This year, 67 of the 178 fellows […]