Policy
The Faculty FTE Leverage (Course buy-out)Program enables
faculty members to expand the time
available for research and other scholarly duties. Participation
cannot be guaranteed for all who may be interested; each proposal
must be supported by the Department Chair and endorsed by the
Dean of the School of Engineering, who forwards the request to
the Senior Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs for final approval.
Some essential features of the program are:
Expansion of Research Time
Participants agree to release a portion
of their salary in exchange for a decreased teaching load on a
year-to-year basis. When an appropriate alternate teaching plan
has been identified and approved by the Chair, a faculty member
may propose to be relieved of teaching duties up to two courses
in one year, according to the schedule below which is based on
a normal teaching load of four courses per year*:
| Relief of one course |
Participant agrees to support, from non-state funds, 1/6th ofhis/her regular nine-month salary (1.5/9ths).
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| Relief of two courses |
Participant agrees to support, from non-state funds, 1/3 of
his/her regular
nine-month salary (3/9ths). Of the two remaining courses taught
by the participant in this case, at least one must be an
undergraduate
course.
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| Multi-year Agreement |
An alternate arrangement may be made by a faculty member who can only support, from non-state funds, a fraction of his/her salary other than 1/3 or 1/6th.
Two examples of this type of arrangement
are:
- Participant agrees to support, from non-state funds, 1/12th of his/her regular nine-month salary
for each of two years while being relieved of one course during that period.
- Participant agrees to support, from non-state funds, 1/4th of his/her regular nine-month salary
for each of two years while being relieved of one course the first year and two courses the second year.
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* A faculty member whose course load has been less than four
courses per year
is expected to participate in this program, participation being
phased in over
time at the Department Chair's discretion, since the teaching load
for individual faculty is the responsibility of the Chair. Faculty
shall not, however, as part of these programs, teach less than
two courses per year, and at least one of those must be at the
undergraduate level.
Provisions
- Provides flexibility for use of FTE savings to the
Department.
- Fundamental savings to each participant's department through
salary savings
will be used to cover the teaching replacement costs of the classes
relieved. To fund teaching replacement costs, the Department
will receive a maximum of $5,500 per course from the Dean of the
School of Engineering. The remaining funds will be held in a
School of Engineering FTE salary savings pool with the intention
of returning at least 80% of the funds to the Department for its
general use.
School of Engineering Goal
Savings of 10% of academic salaries after three years.
CSE Implementation Procedures of Faculty FTE Leverage Program
Faculty member conveys a request for relief of teaching
to the department chair. Faculty should contact the Chair no later than
January 15th for buy-out in the following academic year.
Sabbatical Leave for Participants
Sabbatical leave accrues according to the number of months of
state-funded salary received. When a faculty participates in the
Faculty Leverage Program (FLP),
the number of months of the faculty member's state-funded
pay is decreased. The School of Engineering will compensate for
the sabbatical leave time which hasn't accrued due to
participation the FLP.
The maximum sabbatical leave time accrued during a full-time,
state-funded appointment for six years is six months (two academic
quarters). Thus, in six years, faculty participating in FLP at the
maximum rate possible will receive
four months of state-funded sabbatical leave time plus two months
from the School of Engineering salary savings resource pool for
a total of six months.
Pilot Project Duration
The FLP will be implemented for a 5-year period beginning July 1, 1997
and will be continued following a successful evaluation.
Faculty FTE Leverage Program Request Form
Please print, complete the form and give to the CSE MSO, mail code 0404.
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