Faculty may request to increase effort expended on research activities during an academic quarter. In return for charging a component of academic year salary and benefits to alternate funding, eg. extramural awards, the faculty member’s course assignment will be reduced by one. It is expected that the faculty member will teach in each of the quarters not affected by the reduction, and will average one large lower division assignment per year.
Contract and grant payment of PI salaries is subject to agency guidelines. The PI should discuss funding with his/her financial analyst, prior to submitting for approval. Approval will depend upon whether the request can be accommodated without negative impact to the teaching program. Only one course reduction request will be considered per year. Requests for course reduction over two consecutive years will only be considered under exceptional circumstances.
The cost of the course reduction will be 1/5th of the PI’s annual salary, plus benefits. Course reduction requests will not be approved retroactively and will only be approved consistent with academic quarter payroll dates Non-Senate Recruitment, Appointment, Merit, and Promotion.
Please contact your Departmental Academic Personnel Analyst for more information.
