Provost

Guidelines for 3-Credit Load Reduction
Senate Faculty Affairs Committee

To encourage faculty research and scholarship, the University will award a minimum of 30, three (3)-credit load reductions to eligible faculty in each of the academic years commencing on September 1, 2018, September 1, 2019 and September 1, 2020 subject to the following terms and conditions:

  1. All full-time faculty tenured as of September 1, 2013, who have not filed an irrevocable agreement to terminate employment shall be eligible to apply for the load reduction. Although eligible faculty may apply in multiple years, no faculty member may receive the load reduction under this Article more than once during the three (3)-year period. In order to demonstrate eligibility to apply for a reduced load under this Article, a faculty member who has previously received a grant of a reduced load or stipend pursuant to the terms of Article 6.18 or 6.19 of the 2006-2011 Agreement or a special leave pursuant to Article 6.17 must submit at the time of the application a copy of the completed work or works as appropriate.
  2. A proposal that is not approved may be resubmitted in a subsequent year but is required to be reevaluated and ranked anew. The application process for a reduced leave under this Article shall follow the procedures in FPS 22, C and D, which apply to special leaves.
  3. Eligible faculty members seeking a reduced load must present a proposal for a scholarly publication or project, consistent with department guidelines based upon the particular discipline, including peer review where appropriate for such disciplines. In cases where the nature of the project exceeds the extent of a project that can be completed during a three (3)-credit load reduction, such as an extensive empirical project or a book, the proposal should describe with particularity the portion of the work to be completed during the load reduction and the appropriate benchmarks to measure such completion. Projects already completed at the time of application (manuscripts ready for submission/already submitted/already published and/or artistic works ready for performance, exhibition, etc.) will not be eligible for load reduction.
  4. The faculty member is responsible for the completion of the work specified in the approved proposal.
  5. Faculty awarded a reduced load hereunder cannot teach overload in either semester of the academic year that they are on reduced load.
  6. Faculty will also not be eligible for a load reduction hereunder in the same academic year as the faculty member has been awarded a special leave.
  7. Any publication or public dissemination of the work accomplished must include a Hofstra affiliation and/or an acknowledgement to the effect that the research was in part supported by Hofstra University.

3 Credit Load Reduction
2020-2021 AWARDS - TIMETABLE

Due Date 
October 25, 2019 3 Credit Load Reduction due from faculty members to their Department Chairs
November 15, 2019 3 Credit Load Reduction Recommendations due from Department Chairs to their Dean
December 13, 2019 3 Credit Load Reduction Recommendations from Deans are due to the Faculty Affairs Committee of the Senate, 408 Axinn Library
January 10, 2020 3 Credit Load Reduction Recommendations from the Faculty Affairs Committee of the Senate due to the Provost’s Office, 200 West Library Wing
February 3, 2020 3 Credit Load Reduction Recommendations due from the Provost to the President
February 27, 2020 3 Credit Load Reduction Announcement of Recipients to the Deans

6.19 Teaching Load Reduction to Promote Research and Scholarship.

To encourage faculty research and scholarship, the University will award a minimum of 30, three (3)-credit load reductions to eligible faculty in each of the academic years commencing on September 1, 2018, September 1, 2019 and September 1, 2020 subject to the following terms and conditions:

(a) All full-time faculty tenured as of September 1, 2013, who have not filed an irrevocable agreement to terminate employment shall be eligible to apply for the load reduction. Although eligible faculty may apply in multiple years, no faculty member may receive the load reduction under this Article more than once during the three (3)-year period. In order to demonstrate eligibility to apply for a reduced load under this Article, a faculty member who has previously received a grant of a reduced load or stipend pursuant to the terms of Article 6.18 or 6.19 of the 2006-2011 Agreement or a special leave pursuant to Article 6.17 must submit at the time of the application a copy of the completed work or works as appropriate.

(b) A proposal that is not approved may be resubmitted in a subsequent year but is required to be reevaluated and ranked anew. The application process for a reduced leave under this Article shall follow the procedures in FPS 22, C and D, which apply to special leaves.

(c) Eligible faculty members seeking a reduced load must present a proposal for a scholarly publication or project, consistent with department guidelines based upon the particular discipline, including peer review where appropriate for such disciplines. In cases where the nature of the project exceeds the extent of a project that can be completed during a three (3)-credit load reduction, such as an extensive empirical project or a book, the proposal should describe with particularity the portion of the work to be completed during the load reduction and the appropriate benchmarks to measure such completion. Projects already completed at the time of application (manuscripts ready for submission/already submitted/already published and/or artistic works ready for performance, exhibition, etc.) will not be eligible for load reduction.

(d) The faculty member is responsible for the completion of the work specified in the approved proposal.

(e) Faculty awarded a reduced load hereunder cannot teach overload in either semester of the academic year that they are on reduced load.

(f) Faculty will also not be eligible for a load reduction hereunder in the same academic year as the faculty member has been awarded a special leave.

(g) Any publication or public dissemination of the work accomplished must include a Hofstra affiliation and/or an acknowledgement to the effect that the research was in part supported by Hofstra University.

3-Credit Load Reduction Application
Special Leave Opportunities