Faculty Development and Research Clause Samples
The Faculty Development and Research clause outlines the obligations and opportunities for faculty members to engage in professional growth and scholarly activities. Typically, this clause specifies the types of development programs available, such as workshops, conferences, or sabbaticals, and may detail the support provided by the institution, including funding or release time. Its core function is to ensure that faculty members have the resources and encouragement needed to enhance their teaching skills and contribute to academic research, thereby fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the institution.
Faculty Development and Research. Funding: Faculty members who receive grants for research and other activities that subsidize a portion of the faculty member’s salary shall receive a workload reallocation providing such specific arrangements were approved by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ before the submission of the grant pro- posal.
Faculty Development and Research. 27.1: Research Professors: Each year not less than eighteen (18) faculty members whose unsubsidized research is deemed meritorious of support shall be designated “Research Professors.” A minimum of six (6) Research Professorships shall be reserved for probationary tenure-track faculty with the provision that these can be reallocated to the overall pool if there is an insufficient number of quality applications from this group of faculty. A faculty member will not be designated a Re- search Professor for more than two (2) consecutive years. Faculty members on Term, Visiting, or Post-Doctoral contracts are not eligible for Research Professorships. The Research Professorship Committee may award a minimum of six (6) hours to a maximum of nine (9) hours; the total number of hours distributed will be no less than 162 hours.
Faculty Development and Research. 24.1: External Funding: Faculty members who receive grants for research and other activities that subsidize a portion of the faculty member’s salary shall receive a workload reallocation providing such specific arrangements were approved by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ before the submission of the grant proposal
24.2: Research Professors: Each year not less than eighteen (18) faculty members whose unsubsidized research is deemed meritorious of support shall be designated “Research Professors.” Six