Academic Course Work Taken by Faculty or Non-Teaching Professionals

• Background and reasons for the Policy:   To provide guidance to faculty and non-teaching professionals on the circumstances under which they may take a course for credit during the employee's regular work hours.

• Purpose of Policy:   To support the University's need to ensure effective delivery of instructional and other services for which faculty and non-teaching professional staff are hired and to mitigate against conflicts of commitment.

• Expected Institutional Outcome:   To support uninterrrupted delivery of programs, instruction and services.

• Applicability of Policy:   Faculty and Non-Teaching Professionals.

• Policy Statement:   No member of the faculty or non-teaching professional staff may take for credit any academic work at this institution or elsewhere during the employee's regular working hours, without written approval of the President, for those units which report to him or her, or the Provost or appropriate Vice Presidents or their designees.

• Responsibilities:   The Provost, Deans and Department Heads and other supervisors have a responsibliity to support compliance with this policy by faculty and staff in their units.

Last updated:  June 23, 2008