Faculty are able to take advantage of available resources, both internal and external to the College, in order to achieve their own expectations for sustained professional development and to contribute to the College’s goal of academic excellence. This chapter and chapter three of the Handbook describe many of the internal resources available to support and promote faculty teaching and scholarship. Faculty are encouraged to discuss their professional goals and plans to achieve those goals with colleagues, department chairs and others who are familiar with the College’s expectations for tenure and promotion.
In their development as teachers and scholars, tenure-track, tenured, and term-renewable faculty members are encouraged to establish a plan for teaching, scholarship, and service in conjunction with their department chair. The plan should outline the faculty member’s goals and objectives with an indication of the potential funding sources and other resources, if needed, for the activities.
Term-renewable faculty in the Meehan School of Business as well as Professors of Practice and Laboratory Instructor & Coordinators are not required to have a scholarship plan. However, these faculty should establish a plan for pedagogical development.
Decisions regarding sabbatical and internal grant applications will be influenced in part, by the degree to which a faculty member describes a plan for their scholarly work or pedagogical development, and a clear indication of how the sabbatical or grant will facilitate that work. Subsequent grants and sabbaticals will be decided, in part, on the degree to which the faculty member has achieved the plan’s goals.
All faculty members must be current in their Faculty Review cycles in order to apply for internal grants and Sabbatical Leaves, unless a Faculty Review Cycle Waiver has been approved by the Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Requests are made by submitting the Request for Faculty Review Cycle Waiver form available in the Resources for Academic Program Leadership section of the Academic Affairs myHill page. Tenure-track Assistant Professors are not eligible for a waiver.