Standard Supports

Elon University provides resources for faculty professional development in all areas of faculty work, including development for scholarly and creative activity and development in teaching. Funds for teaching faculty to engage in research and development, attendance at professional meetings, workshops, seminars, advanced study, reassigned time fellowships, and sabbatical leaves are provided by the University. In addition, the University employs a Director of Sponsored Programs who seeks funds to provide these benefits for individuals and the University. These resources for faculty development are reviewed annually in the budgeting process.

Peer mentoring offers a means for development of teaching skills. Opportunities for mentoring are available through the schools or college, or through the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning for interdisciplinary-based mentoring.

Professional development for faculty includes public recognition of accomplishments in four areas: teaching, scholarly research and publication, civic engagement, and mentoring. Guidelines for these awards are included later in this section.

Probationary Faculty Departmental Reassigned-Time Plan

Policy

Each academic department will administer reassigned course time proportional to the number of its full time, probationary faculty. Only probationary faculty are eligible to receive departmental reassigned times. Probationary in this context includes all tenure-track faculty who have yet to stand for tenure, and all continuing- and lecture-track faculty with six or fewer years in rank, unless both successfully continued and promoted in rank prior to their seventh year. Reassignments will be given for teaching activities that are not counted as part of the course load, for service (contributions to the life of the University), and for professional activity/scholarship. Examples of these activities are described in the Criteria for Evaluation of Teaching Faculty. To request reassignment, members of the faculty must submit reassigned-time proposal forms to their Department Chairs by the fall deadline for all requests for University releases, the third Friday of September. Department Chairs will recommend appropriate requests for approval by the Deans. Department Chairs will list faculty granted reassigned times by their departments in their annual reports and explain, collectively, how faculty within the department have used reassigned times. Faculty who receive departmental reassigned time course releases are eligible to receive FR&D reassigned course releases during the same academic year, provided the multiple releases meet the criteria for Minimum Teaching Expectation found in this Handbook.

Application

To request reassignment, members of the faculty must submit reassigned-time proposal forms to their Department Chairs in the fall and include the proposals as part of their Unit I development plans. Department Chairs will recommend appropriate requests for approval by the Deans.

Time Schedule

The deadline for submissions of reassigned time requests will be the deadline for all requests for University reassigns, the third Friday of September. Department Chairs will meet with their Deans to review proposals during October. Reassigned time proposals are approved in early November.

Evaluation

Department Chairs will list faculty granted reassigned times by their departments in their annual reports and explain, collectively, how faculty within the department have used reassigned times.

Post-Probationary Reassigned Time Supports

Faculty who receive departmental reassigned time course releases are eligible to receive FR&D reassigned course releases during the same academic year, provided the multiple releases meet the criteria for Minimum Teaching Expectation found in this Handbook.

A set of standard supports, as well as opportunities for additional competitive supports, are available to eligible post-probationary faculty based on rank and years in rank, as detailed below:

Reassigned Time Support Options for Eligible Post-Probationary Faculty
Faculty Rank Reassigned Time Supports
Assistant Teaching Professor / Assistant Professor (7+ years) 2 over 4 years
3 over 4 years (competitive)
Associate Teaching Professor 2 over 4 years
3 over 4 years (competitive)
Teaching Professor 3 over 4 years
Associate Professor (1–4 years in rank) 3 over 4 years
Associate Professor (5+ years in rank) 2 over 4 years
3 over 4 years (competitive)
Full Professor 5 over 5 years

Post-Promotion Sabbatical

All faculty in the first or second year following a successful promotion decision will be eligible for a post-promotion sabbatical, without application to FR&D. Eligible faculty may request a leave of 12 shs at full salary or for a leave of 24 sh across an entire academic year at half-salary. The sum total of teaching hours plus reassigned time for departmental duties, such as chair responsibilities, plus 12 shs of sabbatical leave, will not exceed 24 shs for the recipient of a sabbatical leave in the academic year of that leave.

Following a successful promotion decision and prior to the start of the next academic year, faculty must submit a one-page scholarly/creative activity sabbatical plan to their dean and the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity. The plan should articulate what they intend to do, how it connects to their ongoing scholarly/creative activity agenda, a timeline of their proposed work, and intended concrete outcomes of the work. Faculty should work closely with their department chair in planning the timing of their sabbatical, so that both departmental and faculty development needs can best be met.

For sabbaticals awarded through FR&D, a minimum of five years of service to the University must elapse after a sabbatical leave has been taken before a teaching faculty member may apply for another sabbatical leave (in the Fall of the sixth year for a sabbatical in the seventh year). This rule is waived for post-promotion sabbaticals.

Faculty submitting a file for promotion may, if eligible, apply for an FR&D sabbatical in the same year. However, if granted promotion, they will be awarded only the post-promotion sabbatical, as faculty are prohibited from using the post-promotion sabbatical or post-probationary faculty development support reassigned times to create back-to-back sabbaticals.

Following a post-promotion sabbatical, faculty must complete at least five years of continuous service to the University in full-time status before being eligible to apply through FR&D for a sabbatical (in the Fall of the sixth year for a sabbatical in the seventh year).

For the period of the sabbatical, the recipient is released from obligations to attend department, faculty, and committee meetings. The recipient’s advising load can be temporarily redistributed.

All fringe benefits will continue through the period of the sabbatical leave.

A member of the faculty who is within two years of retirement will normally not be considered to be eligible for a sabbatical leave.

A recipient of a sabbatical leave is expected to return to Elon University for at least one year. Recipients who fail to complete one year of full-time service at Elon University immediately following their sabbatical leave will be required to repay the monies advanced them by the University during their sabbatical unless the University terminates their employment.

By September 15th of the year following the sabbatical, the faculty member is expected to submit a report to the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity. The report should include the following:

  • The research or development objectives accomplished during the period of the sabbatical award
  • The refinements or changes, if any, to the original research or development plan
  • A description of how the sabbatical project has influenced the teaching, mentoring, service or future scholarship activities of the recipient

Teaching Sabbatical

In addition to FR&D sabbaticals and post-promotion sabbaticals, the University supports faculty development through eligibility for occasional teaching sabbatical opportunities. Teaching sabbaticals are defined as reassignment from all teaching duties in a single semester. Faculty on a teaching sabbatical have a zero-course teaching load for the length of a single semester. However, unlike an FR&D sabbatical or post-promotion sabbatical, teaching sabbaticals do not release faculty from their other expectations.

A probationary teaching sabbatical is available to undergraduate continuing- and tenure-track faculty who have completed at least their first probationary year but who have not yet reached the year in which they submit their file for continuance or promotion/tenure. It allows for a faculty member to have one fall or spring semester with no teaching responsibilities (zero course load), allowing them to focus on scholarship. Sample annual teaching loads would be 0-1-3 or 3-1-0. The teaching sabbatical is available by combining one departmental reassigned time with one reassigned time through the Provost’s Office. Faculty and department chairs should work closely to best meet departmental and faculty development needs.

Awards are not granted on a competitive basis. However, eligible faculty should submit to their Dean and the Provost’s Office (Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity) a plan for their scholarship. A final report of teaching sabbatical research progress is due in the Provost’s Office by October 15 of the year after the teaching sabbatical is taken.

Post-probationary faculty (see definition of post-probationary under “Grants Awarded by the Post-Probationary Faculty development Committee”) may be eligible to create a teaching sabbatical utilizing reassigned times awarded to them as part of the post-probationary faculty development support system. Post-probationary faculty eligible to create a teaching sabbatical once every seven years, but not consecutive to an FR&D sabbatical or post-promotion sabbatical.

A post-probationary teaching sabbatical allows for a faculty member to have one fall or spring semester with no teaching responsibilities (zero course load), allowing them to focus on teaching, service/leadership, or professional activity. The teaching sabbatical is created by utilizing one’s post-probationary or other reassigned times. Faculty and department chairs should work closely to best meet both the departmental and student experience goals, and faculty development needs, and agree on the optimal semester for teaching sabbatical.

Chairs should make reasonable efforts to inform faculty of when their post-probationary reassigned time expires and work with faculty to minimize loss of reassigned time. If a faculty member is unable to make use of or reassigned time outside of the post-probationary system, they may request (i) an extension and/or (ii) a payout, at the overload course pay rate, from the Provost’s office. Post-probationary reassigned-time balances are not carried over across terms and cannot be paid out; furthermore, they are replenished in full at the start of each new cycle, based on rank and status.

Chairs should inform the Dean and the Provost’s Office of the eligible faculty member’s plan for their teaching sabbatical. A section in the faculty member’s Unit I will serve as a final report of teaching sabbatical accomplishments.

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Travel

Teaching faculty members are urged to associate themselves with at least one professional organization or learned society and to become active in its programs. The University will help defray expenses incurred by faculty members in attending such meetings.

Well in advance of the meeting, the faculty member should notify the Department Chair of plans, clearly indicating arrangements for the conducting of classes during the absence. If these arrangements are approved, they will be sent in writing to the Dean for final clearance. Forms for reporting expenses should be obtained from the Dean’s office or the Chair’s office before the meeting, and expense forms should be returned as soon as possible after the meeting to that office. A brief written report of the meeting should also be submitted to the Dean through the Department Chair.

Each full-time teaching faculty member is budgeted for travel to professional meetings as a part of the University’s interest in faculty development and professionalism. The budgeted amount is to cover actual traveling and living expenses. The faculty member will be expected to cover costs exceeding the budgeted amount. The budget allocation can be applied to total cost without distinction regarding attendance, reading a paper, or serving in an official capacity.

Unused funds may be carried over one year to enable a faculty member to attend more meetings or more distant meetings. There is no carryover beyond the second year. A faculty member may not transfer unused travel funds to another faculty member.

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Grants Awarded by the Faculty Research and Development Committee

General Criteria for Awarding the Funds

  • The project contributes to a discipline(s), the University, and/or the public good. Projects that have the most potential to result in a scholarly product, have significant impact, and/or gain recognition outside of the Elon University, are looked upon favorably. (Elon has a broad view of scholarship, as defined in the Elon Teacher-Scholar-Mentor Statement.)
  • The project benefits the faculty member’s career as a teacher-scholar-mentor. Projects that have the most potential to contribute to the faculty member’s effectiveness as a teacher-scholar-mentor are looked upon favorably.
  • Other Considerations:
  • The proposal’s clarity in addressing the above criteria is important. The proposal is, in essence, a persuasive document and should be addressed to a committee composed of faculty representatives from a variety of disciplines. All things being equal, the committee looks favorably upon awarding those who have received little or no funding from the Faculty Research and Development Committee in the past.
  • The history of FR&D support and outcomes may be considered when making new awards.
  • FR&D prioritizes sabbatical leaves for funding over all other funding requests. All acceptable sabbatical leave proposals are funded.

Sabbatical Leaves

Eligible faculty are encouraged to apply for sabbatical leaves if they are conducting extensive research or engaged in significant amounts of additional study that will result in the recipient’s professional development. Eligible faculty may apply for a leave of one-half a full year’s teaching load (12 shs) at full salary or for a leave of a full academic year (24 shs) at half-salary. The sum total of teaching hours plus reassigned time for departmental duties, such as chair responsibilities, plus 12 shs of sabbatical leave, will not exceed 24 shs for the recipient of a sabbatical leave in the academic year of that leave.

One or more sabbatical leaves may be granted for a full-year at full-pay. The application for this highly competitive sabbatical is due on the date published by the FR&D committee. Applications will be judged on the need for a full year to complete the scholarly project as well as the applicant’s previous scholarly productivity. Those applicants who do not receive the full-year, full-pay sabbaticals may choose to have their applications forwarded to apply for a single-semester semester sabbatical.

Any full-time faculty member who meets the following requirements is eligible to apply for a sabbatical leave:

  • Holds the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor, Associate Teaching Professor, Teaching Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor
  • Has completed at least five years of continuous service to the University in full-time-status

For the period of the sabbatical, the recipient is released from obligations to attend department, faculty, and committee meetings. The recipient’s advising load can be temporarily redistributed.

All fringe benefits will continue through the period of the sabbatical leave.

A minimum of five years of service to the University must elapse after a sabbatical leave has been taken before a teaching faculty member may apply for another sabbatical leave (in the Fall of the sixth year for a sabbatical in the seventh year).

A member of the faculty who is within two years of retirement will normally not be considered to be eligible for a sabbatical leave.

If a faculty member is applying for tenure in the same year as the sabbatical application, the awarding of the sabbatical will be contingent upon the granting of tenure.

A recipient of a sabbatical leave is expected to return to Elon University for at least one year. Recipients who fail to complete one year of full-time service at Elon University immediately following their sabbatical leave will be required to repay the monies advanced them by the University during their sabbatical unless the University terminates their employment.

Application for a sabbatical leave should be made via the online form provided by the Faculty Research and Development Committee. All applications for sabbaticals for the next academic year must be submitted on-line and both the chair and dean are notified of your application (full-year, full-pay applications and other sabbatical applications are due on the dates published by the FR&D committee.

The decision of the Faculty Research and Development Committee will be decided by blind review, based on the criteria stated in the beginning of this section and the merits of each individual case. The Faculty Research and

Development Committee will report its decisions to the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity.

By September 15th of the year following the sabbatical, the faculty member is expected to submit a report to the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity. A standard report form will be provided by all sabbatical award recipients addressing the following:

  • The research or development objectives accomplished during the period of the sabbatical award
  • The refinements or changes, if any, to the original research or development plan
  • A description of how the sabbatical project has influenced the teaching, mentoring, or future scholarship activities of the recipient

The publication of the results of research projects supported by a grant from the University should include a printed acknowledgment of financial assistance from the University.

Summer Fellowships

Faculty are encouraged to apply for summer fellowships if they are conducting research or engaged in a significant amount of additional study that will result in the recipient’s professional development. These fellowships are intended for those faculty members who will be doing a significant amount of work but not as much as a sabbatical leave would entail. The work for these fellowships should be completed during the University’s summer months. The amount of the Summer Fellowship is in excess of $8,875 and increases periodically (typically every five years) with the goal of matching average raise in the salary pool each year.

Summer fellowships are intended to provide a period of uninterrupted time, similar in nature to a sabbatical (see section above), to be used exclusively in the pursuit of a project intended to result in publication or some other tangible expression of scholarship and/or professional development.

Any full-time teaching faculty member who has served the University for one or more years is eligible to apply for a summer fellowship. Thus, the earliest possible award would be for the summer following a faculty member’s second year at the University.

Since summer fellowships are intended to provide for uninterrupted time, recipients should have six to eight weeks of the summer to dedicate to the fellowship. Summer fellows cannot teach more than the equivalent of one course during the summer.

Recipients of summer fellowships are expected to return to Elon University for at least one year. Recipients who fail to complete one year of full-time service at Elon University immediately following their fellowship grant will be required to repay the monies of the grant unless the University terminates their employment.

Applications for a summer fellowship should be made via the online form provided by the Faculty Research and Development Committee. All applications for summer fellowships for the following summer must be submitted on-line and both the chair and dean are notified of your application. Summer fellowship application is due on the date published by the FR&D committee.

The decision of the Faculty Research and Development Committee will be reached through blind review of the proposals and will be based on the criteria stated in the beginning of this section and the merits of each individual case. The Faculty Research and Development Committee will report its decisions to the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity.

A report of fellowship activities completed by the recipient should address the following:

  • The research or development objectives accomplished during the summer
  • The refinements or changes, if any, to the original research or development plan
  • A description of how the summer fellowship project has influenced the teaching, mentoring, or future scholarship activities of the recipient

The completed report form should be sent to the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity by September 15 of the year of the grant. The publication of the results of research projects supported by a grant from the University should include a printed acknowledgment of financial assistance from the University.

Reassigned-Time Fellowships

Full-time probationary faculty, as well as post-probationary faculty with 1-3 years in rank, are encouraged to apply for reassigned-time fellowships through FR&D if they are conducting research or engaged in additional study which can be completed during the academic semester for which they are requesting a reduced teaching load. Probationary faculty are eligible to reapply annually, up through but no later than one year less than the total of their probationary period (i.e., third, fourth, or fifth year). Post-probationary faculty with 1-3 years in rank are eligible to receive only one FR&D reassigned time award in their first 4 years following promotion. Applicants may apply for reassignment from one course (4 shs). There is no monetary award associated with this type of fellowship, except for the continuance of full pay at current levels with reduced teaching responsibilities.

Reassigned-time fellowships are granted for reassignment from one course during an academic year or semester. Reassigned-time fellowships are also granted for Winter Term. However, all full-time teaching faculty members must continue to meet minimum teaching expectations as defined in Faculty Workload – Minimum Teaching Expectations).

Decisions on research-related course reassignments are determined by an ad hoc committee chaired by one member of the Faculty Research and Development Committee and representatives from all the schools, including representatives from the three divisions in Arts and Sciences. Members of the Faculty Research and Development Committee that do not serve on this ad hoc committee are eligible to apply for research-related course reassigned times.

Reassigned-time fellowships are not intended to be used for degree completion.

Recipients of reassigned-time fellowships are expected to return to the University for at least one semester. If recipients fail to complete these requirements in the semester(s) immediately following their reassigned-time, they will be required to repay monies advanced them by the University for their fellowship unless the University terminates their employment.

Application for a reassigned-time fellowship should be made via the online form provided by the Faculty Research and Development Committee. All applications for reassigned-time fellowships for the following academic year must be submitted on-line and both the chair and dean are notified of your application by the published deadline for all requests for University releases, typically the third Friday of September.

The decisions of the Faculty Research and Development Committee and ad hoc committee for research-related course reassigned times will be decided by blind review and based on the criteria stated in the beginning of this section and the merits of each individual case. The Faculty Research and Development Committee will report all decisions to the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity.

Upon completion of the reassigned-time fellowship, the faculty member is expected to submit a report to the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity by September 15 of the current year for Spring Reassigned-Time Fellowships and the following September for Fall Reassigned-Time Fellowships. The report should address the following:

  • The research or development objectives accomplished during the period of the reassigned-time award
  • The refinements or changes, if any, to the original research or development plan
  • A description of how the reassigned-time project has influenced the teaching, mentoring, or future scholarship activities of the recipient

The publication of the results of research projects supported by a grant from the University should include a printed acknowledgment of financial assistance from the University.

Research, Development, and Advanced Study

Faculty are encouraged to apply for money in this category if they are conducting research, working on a publication, pursuing professional development, working toward the completion of a dissertation, or engaged in additional study or course work at another graduate institution. Applicants should be aware that there is no guarantee that the amount of money requested, if accepted, will be funded at the level requested.

All full-time teaching faculty members are eligible to apply for assistance in their pursuit of scholarly research, publications, professional development, dissertation completion, advanced study, or course work at graduate institutions. All research activities involving human participants, whether funded or not, must conform to the current guidelines set forth by the Office of Sponsored Programs or the Institutional Review Board in all research involving human subjects.

Applications for financial assistance should be made via the online form provided by the Faculty Research and Development Committee. Applications can be for financial assistance alone or in conjunction with a sabbatical, summer fellowship, released time fellowship, or Hultquist award. All applications for financial assistance related to research, development, and advanced study for the following academic year must be submitted on-line and both the chair and dean are notified of your application. Application for financial assistance is due on the date published by the FR&D committee.

The normal grant period is June 1st of each year to May 31st of the following year. Funds unused by a recipient by the end of the grant period will be returned to the general University fund. A request for a change in any part of the grant originally approved by the committee must receive prior approval from the Chair of the Faculty Research and Development Committee and notification in writing to the Associate Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity.

A recipient of a research, development, and advanced study grant is expected to return to Elon University for at least one year. Recipients who fail to complete one year of full-time service at Elon University immediately following their grant will be required to repay the monies advanced them by the University unless the University terminates their employment.

  • At the conclusion of the grant period, the grant recipient must write a report addressing the following:
    The research or development objectives accomplished during the period of the reassigned-time award
  • The refinements or changes, if any, to the original research or development plan
  •  A description of how the reassigned-time project has influenced the teaching, mentoring, or future scholarship activities of the recipient

All applications for financial assistance must be accompanied by a detailed itemized budget. Applicants have the choice to accept or reject partial funding based on review of the itemized budget. Expenses may be reimbursed for:

  • Special equipment and materials, books, photocopies, film, and manuscripts for research. Large equipment expenses cannot usually be covered.
  • Statistical analysis, transcription, consultants
  • Communication costs
  • Travel and living expenses incurred away from home and pertinent to the project (with low priority given to travel expenses for coursework). Mileage, hotel costs, and other living expenses should be itemized.
  • Publication up to 50% of the requisite subsidy, but not to exceed $1,500, including cost of images
  • Tuition
  • Other purposes deemed by the Faculty Research and Development Committee to be necessary for the successful completion of the proposed project and compatible with the general policies of the University, but not to include payment to the faculty member for time spent in research

When possible, supplies, equipment, and clerical services are to be acquired through other University channels. The Committee will not approve the expenditure of its funds for materials or equipment which in its judgment should be supplied by the University through the departmental, Dean’s or library budgets.

Teaching faculty members desiring release from teaching responsibilities to conduct research or to develop projects are encouraged to refer to sections on sabbaticals and reassigned-time above.

All books, manuscripts, photocopies, films, and similar research materials purchased with funds from a grant approved by the Faculty Research and Development Committee become the property of Elon University and, upon completion of the project, are to be deposited in the library or other appropriate University repository. Textbooks required in course work will become the personal property of the grantee.

The publication of the results of research projects supported by a grant from the University should include a printed acknowledgment of financial assistance from the University.

Hultquist Fund Summer Fellowships

Full-time faculty may apply for a Hultquist fund summer fellowship during their first year at Elon to be used in the summer between their first and second years of teaching. Awards include, but are not limited to, research, scholarship and writing, and course development, and are typically awarded as a stipend. Application for the Hultquist fund summer fellowship must be submitted on-line, both the chair and dean are notified of your application, and the application is due on the date published by the FR&D committee.

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Grants Awarded by the Post-Probationary Faculty Development Review Committee

Post-probationary faculty, in this context, are defined as individuals who have successfully passed a tenure review and hold the rank of associate professor or professor, or who have successfully passed continuance review and (a) have been promoted or (b) have completed six or more years in rank.

The intent of the post-probationary faculty development program is to support faculty excellence and, in turn, deepen the impact of the Elon teacher-scholar-mentor ideal. These university supports align with our institutional mission related to teaching excellence, meaningful engagement, scholarly achievement, and lifelong learning. An important characteristic in the pursuit of these significant values is supporting our faculty to grow as excellent and impactful teachers, committed servant-leaders, and dedicated scholars.

The purpose of these awards is to support faculty development throughout and across the entirety of one’s career. Receipt of such awards should not by themselves be interpreted as a positive indication of one’s eventual success in subsequent promotions. Likewise, failure to receive such awards does not necessarily reflect on one’s future success in promotion.

General Criteria for Awarding the Funds

The criteria used to evaluate the applications by this committee are the Criteria for Evaluation found in the Faculty Handbook.

Competitive Awards

Post-probationary competitive supports are based on rank and include:

  • Post-probationary Assistant Teaching Professors and Assistant Professors
  • Post-probationary Associate Teaching Professors and Associate Professors

Post-Probationary Assistant Teaching Professors and Assistant Professors

Post-probationary assistant teaching professors and assistant professors will be given the opportunity to compete for 12 shs of course reassigned time to be used in a 4-year period based on their year in rank.

Faculty will be notified in the 4th year of their current award period of their eligibility to compete for this award. Those choosing not to apply are given the opportunity to accept the standard post-probationary support of 8 shs over a 4-year period.

Applicants will submit an overview of their accomplishments in teaching, and either contributions to the life of the University or professional activity. In this way, post-probationary assistant teaching professors and assistant professors can compete for additional support based on high-quality work in two of the three areas of faculty evaluation, rather than requiring excellence across all three criteria areas.

Post-Probationary Faculty Development Application for Assistant Teaching Professors and Assistant Professors

The intent of the post-probationary faculty development program is to support faculty excellence and, in turn, deepen the impact of the Elon teacher-scholar- mentor ideal. These university supports align with our institutional mission related to teaching excellence, meaningful engagement, scholarly achievement, and lifelong learning. An important characteristic in the pursuit of these significant values is supporting our faculty to grow as excellent and impactful teachers, committed servant-leaders, and dedicated scholars.

You are eligible for basic supports for your rank. As a result, you will receive two course reassignments (8 shs) to be used over the next four years.

As a post-probationary faculty holding the rank of assistant teaching professor or assistant professor for six years, you are also eligible to apply for an additional competitive award. Additional awards are made through a competitive application process for post-probationary faculty. For your rank, applications for these awards are evaluated based on high-quality contributions in teaching as well as one of the two other areas of faculty evaluation (contributions to the life of the university and professional activity; see faculty handbook for descriptions). If awarded, you will receive one additional course reassignment (4 shs) to be used during the next four years, in addition to the base support for your rank. Therefore, you would be awarded 3 course reassigned times (12 shs) to be used over your next four years in rank.

To be evaluated to receive the competitive level of support, faculty must provide a current CV and complete the following application. Your responses on the following items will next be forwarded to your respective dean. Your dean will provide an assessment of your impact in each category using a 5-point scale (1=low impact; 5=high impact) to be considered in the committee’s overall assessment and deliberations.

  1. Please use the last four academic years as evidence to describe high-quality contributions in teaching (600 word limit):
  2. Please use the last four academic years as evidence to describe high-quality contributions in one of the two areas:
    1. Contributions to the life of the university (400 word limit): OR
    2. Professional activity (400 word limit)

Post-Probationary Associate Teaching Professors and Associate Professors

Post-probationary associate teaching professors and associate professors will be given the opportunity to compete for 12 shs of course reassigned time to be used in a 4-year period based on their year in rank.

Faculty will be notified in the 4th year of their current award period of their eligibility to compete for this award. Those choosing not to apply are given the opportunity to accept the standard post-probationary support of 8 shs over a 4-year period.

Applicants will submit an overview of their accomplishments in teaching and either contributions to the life of the University or professional activity. In this way, post-probationary associate teaching professors and associate professors can compete for additional support based on high-quality work in two of the three areas of faculty evaluation, rather than requiring excellence across all three criteria areas.

Post-Probationary Faculty Development Application for Associate Teaching Professors and Associate Professors

The intent of the post-probationary faculty development program is to support faculty excellence and, in turn, deepen the impact of the Elon teacher-scholar-mentor ideal. These university supports align with our institutional mission related to teaching excellence, meaningful engagement, scholarly achievement, and lifelong learning. An important characteristic in the pursuit of these significant values is supporting our faculty to grow as excellent and impactful teachers, committed servant-leaders, and dedicated scholars.

You are eligible for basic supports for your rank. As a result, you will receive two course reassignments (8 shs) to be used over the next four years.

As a post-probationary faculty holding the rank of associate teaching professors or associate professor for four years, you are eligible to apply for an additional competitive award. Additional awards are made through a competitive application process for post-probationary faculty. For your rank, applications for these awards are evaluated based on high-quality contributions in teaching as well as one of the two other areas of faculty evaluation (contributions to the life of the university and professional activity; see faculty handbook for descriptions). If awarded, you will receive one course reassignment (4 shs) to be used during the next four years in addition to the base support for your rank (i.e. 3 course reassignments over 4 years). Therefore, you would be awarded 3 course reassigned times (12 shs) to be used over your next four years in rank.

To be evaluated to receive the competitive level of support, faculty must provide a current CV and complete the following application. Your responses on the following items will next be forwarded to your respective dean. Your dean will provide an assessment of your impact in each category using a 5-point scale (1=low impact; 5=high impact) to be considered in the committee’s overall assessment and deliberations.

  1. Please use the last four academic years as evidence to describe high-quality contributions in teaching (600 word limit):
  2. Please use the last four academic years as evidence to describe high-quality contributions in one of the two areas:
    1. Contributions to the life of the university (400 word limit): OR
    2. Professional activity (400 word limit)

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