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Full-time faculty members may request modified instructional duties (MID) for one long session semester (i.e. fall or spring) when certain personal circumstances prevent them from being able to perform their classroom teaching duties, and when such modifications are found to be in the interest of the University's instructional programs. MID allows the faculty member to substitute other pre-approved workload (research, service) for their classroom teaching duties. MID may be requested by any member of the faculty appointed full-time on the instructional budget in a long session semester.
MID is not a leave, does not stop the probationary clock, and modifies the faculty member's normal classroom teaching duties with non-instructional work as outlined in HOP 2-2240 Modified Instructional Duties.
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Where justified, a tenure-track faculty member may make a separate request for an extension of the probationary period.
This policy is not intended to apply to situations Modified Instructional Duties should not be used where use of sick leave and/or Family Medical Leave is applicable. For example, a faculty member out for the birth of a child should use sick leave and/or FML while under doctor's care, but approved Modified Instructional Duties would cover the remainder of the semester. (See COE: Sick Leave and FML - Faculty for guidance on the use of sick leave and FML.)
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