Ten-month faculty appointments carry with them the expectation that faculty will sustain their teaching, administrative, undergraduate advising, graduate advising, service, and other faculty duties throughout the fall and spring semesters. Faculty who receive administrative teaching relief, who teach eight-week courses, who have internal grants (such as a CAHI fellowship or other internal grants), or who have accumulated release time from teaching (for instance, by "banking" courses) are expected to maintain, without interruption, their obligations in these other areas. That is, unless on externally funded research leave, Leave Without Pay, or sabbatical, faculty who are not engaged in teaching courses are expected to maintain a presence on campus in order to perform their other faculty duties.
Faculty who wish to be absent from campus for prolonged periods and therefore unavailable for normal service and administrative duties must receive written approval from the Provost which will be given only if the Chair and the Dean determine that the faculty member’s extended absence from campus is in the context of advancing the mission of the campus and that the individual's non-teaching duties can be covered by qualified others.