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See additional resources at COE: COVID-19 Resources on Campus.

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Related: COE: Personal Circumstances Flag (for circumstances related or unrelated to COVID-19)

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Overview - extension and review options

See links provided for additional information and criteria for each type below.

MechanismWhich faculty?What is it?Additional criteriaLinksNotes
COVID Professional Impact StatementAll faculty

An optional statement that faculty can include in their materials for all types of faculty reviews (annual, mid-probationary, promotion and tenure, and comprehensive periodic review), to provide a contextualized view of productivity, performance, and professional trajectory impacted by the pandemic.

Only address professional impact - personal information should be avoided.

EVPP: COVID Professional Impact Statements

COE: COVID Professional Impact Statement


Limit length of statement to maximum two pages.

Extension of Probationary Period for COVID-related impactAssistant ProfessorsAllows the probationary period to be extended for one year due to the negative impact of COVID-19.A COVID-19 probationary period extension is not counted in the maximum of two extensions due to personal circumstances permitted by the university.

EVPP: Probationary Period Extensions under COVID-19

COE: Extension of Probationary Period for COVID-Related Impact

COE: Probationary Period - Tenure-Track Faculty

A request for probationary period extension associated with COVID-19 must be made no later than the end of the spring semester (May 31) before the faculty member's required tenure review year.

-For example, if 2020-21 is a faculty member's final year of probationary period before they must be reviewed for tenure, then the extension request must be submitted by May 31, 2020.

Can be rescinded - submit rescind request in writing.

Flexible Teaching Modality Arrangement (FTMA)Faculty (and AIs)If eligible and approved, allows the faculty member to join all meetings remotely and to teach their courses online, if feasible. Living with an at-risk household member defined as immunocompromised, who also either a) weighs less than 88 pounds and is of any age, or b) is under 12 years old and any weight.COE: Flexible Teaching Modality Arrangement (FTMA)Temporary. Currently available for fall 2022. Eligibility and application forms at the link. 
Personal Circumstances FlagAssociate and full professors; professional/non-tenure track faculty

Analogous to the Probationary Period Extension that tenure-track faculty are able to request. This allows these faculty to designate a year within the scope of a multi-year review as having been impacted by personal circumstances (related to the pandemic or not). The notation, but not the reason for it, would be available to review committees and provide context for the flagged year.

May be for personal circumstances related to COVID-19 or not.

Can receive twice while in rank.

Requests made in 2020-21 can be associated with events occurring in 2019-20.

Not available for events that occurred before 2019-20.

EVPP: Personal Circumstances Flag

EVPP: 2020-21 Annual Review Guidelines

COE: Personal Circumstances Flag

Can be rescinded.

Can apply for both Personal Circumstances Flag and Research Reboot.

Research Reboot ProgramAssistant and Associate Professors

Assist faculty whose upward research trajectories have been disrupted by the pandemic by providing a full semester’s course release, with the teaching allocation of their assignment for that semester reassigned to research. In some cases, faculty may receive summer funding instead.

Ineligible if up for promotion in 2019-20 or 2020-21.

See COE: Research Reboot Program for additional college priorities and criteria.

Must teach at least one course during the academic year.

EVPP: Research Reboot Program

COE: Research Reboot Program

Applications

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CLOSED January 22, 2021

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Candidate notifications from EVPP Mar. 1, 2021

Not leave; instead a reapportioning of time, with teaching allocation assigned to research.

Can apply for both Research Reboot and Personal Circumstances flag.

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