Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) On-campus
An assigned research appointment provides for disciplinary and
pedagogical research by releasing a tenured or tenure
eligible faculty member from teaching for one semester. It assumes that
the appointee will continue university assignments other than classroom
teaching and therefore requires the appointee's presence on campus.
The terms of the program provide for release from teaching,
full salary, the continuation of benefits based on full salary, and eligibility
for salary increment and promotion.
The program is crucially important for extending the frontiers
of knowledge. Specifics of it are outlined below:
(1) Application for assigned research is
initiated through the department chair to the dean, provost, and the president.
Final approval must be given by the president. The number of such appointments
which can be approved in any given semester will depend in part upon the
ability of the department in question and the university to meet all their
obligations.
(2) A reduced load for
assigned research shall not normally be deemed to affect the eligibility of an
individual member under the university faculty improvement program.
(3) The appointment of a faculty member to
assigned research ordinarily does not involve additional funding for a
department. The application must indicate how the department will cover the
load of the faculty member.
(4)
Criteria
for successful assigned research proposals may include but are not restricted
to the significance, originality, and feasibility of the project; the soundness
of the methodology proposed; evidence that the proposer has taken into account
the relevant existing work; and the record of the proposer's scholarly or
creative accomplishment.
(5)
Faculty members receiving an appointment for assigned research are obligated to
remain at Miami during the ensuing academic year and to make a full report of
the results of the assignment to the chair, dean, and provost within ninety
days of the completion of the assignment. If a person does not return to Miami
university during the ensuing academic year, he or she is expected to reimburse
the university a prorated portion of university salary received during the
assigned research leave for the portion of the post leave year that is not
completed.
(6) Anyone on assigned
research appointment will devote full time to the specific project and
therefore will not be engaged in other activities for which remuneration is
awarded (except as permitted when teaching full time and with appropriate
approval).
(7) Applications for
appointment to assigned research should be received in the academic personnel
services by December first, of the academic year preceding the leave period if
one is to receive most favorable consideration.
(8) Questions regarding the program policy
and guidelines should be addressed to the academic personnel services
office.
(B) Off-campus
An assigned research appointment off-campus permits
a tenured or
tenure eligible member of the instructional staff
to spend a semester conducting
research in an off campus location when the nature of the research project
makes absence from campus necessary. Normally faculty not eligible for a
faculty improvement leave will be awarded an assigned research appointment; but
in unusual circumstances when research away from campus is essential an
assigned research appointment off-campus will be granted.
The terms of the program provide (from grant and university
sources combined) full salary, the continuation of benefits based on full
salary, and eligibility for salary increment and promotion.
(1) Application for an assigned research
appointment off-campus is initiated through the department chair to the dean,
provost, and president.
(2) Receipt
of an assigned research appointment off-campus normally will not affect the
eligibility of a person for a faculty improvement leave.
(3) The application for an assigned research
appointment off-campus must indicate how the department will cover the usual
duties of the applicant during the semester of appointment, with the
understanding that no additional funding for the department will be
provided.
(4)
Criteria for evaluating applications include, but are not
restricted to, the merit of the research project and the record of the
proposer's scholarly or creative accomplishment.
(5) Persons receiving an appointment for
assigned research appointment off-campus are obligated to remain Miami during
the ensuing academic year and to make a full report of the results of the
assignment to the chair, dean, and provost within ninety days of the completion
of the assignment. If a person does not return to Miami university during the
ensuing academic year, he or she is expected to reimburse the university a
prorated portion of university salary received during the assigned research
leave for the portion of the post leave year that is not completed.
(6) Anyone on an assigned research
appointment off-campus will devote fulltime to the research project and
therefore will not be engaged in other activities for which remuneration is
awarded.
(7) Applications for an
assigned research appointment off-campus should be received in the academic
personnel services office by December first, of the academic year preceding the
leave period if one is to receive most favorable consideration.
(8) Questions regarding the program and its
guidelines should be addressed to the academic personnel services
office.
