Humanities Released Time Program - Focus of Program
The Campus Research Board will normally apply the following criteria in their review of requests for released time through the Humanities Released Time Program:
- Preference will be given to untenured faculty. Requests should not be made in the faculty member’s first year at the University unless truly exceptional circumstances exist. Requests may be particularly appropriate for faculty in their final year before submission of the tenure dossier when they are completing scholarly work on which their tenure decision will be based.
- Humanities Released Time should be used for critical moments in the life of the project. The Campus Research Board will not normally award released time to an applicant who receives similar released time from another campus unit for the same academic year.
- Humanities Released Time should not be used in conjunction with a sabbatical leave or other leaves or released time opportunities which would lengthen time released from University teaching responsibilities unless exceptional circumstances exist.