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For tenure-track faculty, any amount of Unpaid Time Off in a long semester will stop their probationary clock for that full year.
Release Time vs. Leave of Absence
a) Release Time (Release From the Instructional Budget): Also sometimes referred to as “course buyout” or “research buyout.”
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. There is no corresponding change in the faculty member’s overall FTE.
For request instructions and additional information, see COE: Release Time (Leave From the Instructional Budget).
b) Leave of Absence: Period during which all or part of a faculty member’s pay is NOT administered through UT. All or part of 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. The faculty member might be paid directly by a grant or fellowship with no funding going through UT (they are paid directly by the external organization), or they may use personal funds.
There are two types of Leave of Absence:
Professional Leave of Absence: Academic activities related to their faculty position continue, but pay is NOT administered through UT.
Personal Leave of Absence: Leave is requested for personal rather than professional reasons. For instance, personal unpaid leave might be requested for a medical reason, but only after any paid sick leave balances have been exhausted.
Instructions for requesting Leave of Absence are on this page at Leave request process.
Unpaid leave types
Two types of Leave of Absence are available to faculty, detailed below.
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Note that per UT System: Rule 31007: Tenure > Section 7, a tenured UT Austin faculty member may not hold a concurrent tenured position at another institution without the written permission of the appropriate Executive Vice Chancellor.
Professional Leave of Absence vs. Release Time
See COE: Leave Requests - Faculty.
Personal Leave of Absence
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