The Faculty FTE Leverage Program (FLP) is a program enabling 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 Executive Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs for final approval. Some essential features of the program are:
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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 of his/her regular nine-month salary (1.5/9ths). 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. 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.
* 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.
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Provisions
- Provides flexibility for use of FTE savings to the Department.
- The resulting release salary will be distributed as follows;
- 75% to the department to fund teaching replacement costs,
- 15% to the department for administration
- 10% to the Dean and will be re-allocated to the departments to off-set budget reductions
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School of Engineering Goal
Savings of 10% of academic salaries.
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Procedures
- Faculty member and Department Chair develop a plan for covering part of the faculty member's teaching duties.
- Faculty member requests relief of teaching one or two courses, according to the schedule in A above.
- Department Chair authorizes the faculty member's request.
- School of Engineering Dean endorses the Chair's approval.
- Final Approval by Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs.
Revised: 8-2012