Humanities Released Time Program - Focus of Program
Recognizing that productivity in scholarship is an expected part of a faculty member’s regular workload, the Campus Research Board will normally apply the following criteria in their review of requests for released time through the Humanities Released Time Program:
- Requests for released time should reflect a response to some special opportunity that would be significantly enhanced by uninterrupted effort.
- 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. 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 be used for efforts which have reached a level of maturity and there exists a “crucial moment in the life of the project” such that released time will make a significant difference. Early stage projects are not good candidates for the Humanities Released Time Program.
- Requests may be particularly appropriate for faculty in their final year before tenure decision when they are completing scholarly work on which their tenure decision will be based.
- 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 truly exceptional circumstances exist.