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Includes "Course Buyouts"
Related content:
For information on the impacts of leave on faculty review clocks,
seeFor Leave for Department Chairs and Associate Deans,
seesee COE: Personal Time Away - Direct Reports to Dean and Associate Deans
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Overview
A faculty member on Release Time (Leave from the Instructional Budget) continues to hold a full-time appointment paid from a funding source(s) administered by the University. There is no change to the faculty member's FTE during Release Time, only to their funding source.
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Professional Leave of Absence vs. Release Time
Professional Leave of Absence: Academic activities continue, but pay is NOT administered through UT. The faculty member might be paid directly by a grant or fellowship with no funding going through UT, or using personal funds. The FTE on their faculty position is reduced for the duration of the leave. APS will process the reduced hours as an absence request on the faculty position.
Release Time: No change to the faculty member's overall FTE, funding change only. Part of the faculty member’s salary is temporarily transferred from department instructional funding to a grant administered through UT, such as a 26-account through OSP.
Important information for Instructors and Assistant Professors
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The College of Education requires each full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member to teach two organized courses per long semester. See COE: Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Workload Policy > Teaching.
A tenured/tenure-track faculty member who remains in residence and active in their department may buy out up to three courses per academic year from the instructional budget. Each buyout is at 1/6 of the faculty member’s nine-month state academic rate for each course buyout. This is based on a faculty teaching load of two organized courses per long semester. Course buyout is at the discretion of the department chair based on departmental needs. Faculty who generate substantial indirect costs for The University, as well as those who hold large endowments, should be accorded all due consideration in course buyout. Buyouts are typically funded from sponsored research. Course buyout from personal funds is not allowed.
Calculating Scheduled Weekly Hours (SWH) for Release Time
Course releases:
One course release = 13.33 SWH leave
Two course releases = 26.67 SWH leave
Service:
With the department chair's written permission, faculty can buy out a maximum of 10 SWH per semester of service (8.33% of their service obligation remains).
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Materials are available to help calculate course buyouts for joint-appointed faculty at Box: Course buyouts - joint-appointed faculty (access restricted).
Contact COE-FacultyAffairs@austin.utexas.edu to request file access.
Process
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5) The department should keep a copy of the completed Release Time Request form for its records.
Resources
HOP 2-210: Faculty Leaves and Special Academic Assignments - see section I. B. for Leave from the Instructional Budget
Job Costing Tool example: Release From the Instructional Budget
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