Deadlines:

•  Prior Email Notification of Intent:  15 September of the academic year preceding the proposed course reduction to abellega@bates.edu.
• Application Deadline: October 15 of the academic year preceding the year in which the course modification may occur.

Members of the Faculty may apply for a one-course or course-equivalent reduction in their regular teaching obligation during the two-semester period of an academic year. These may be applications for course development, unusual teaching arrangements and strategies, or other projects related either to the planning or implementation of improvement in teaching. Alternatively, applications may concern specific research projects. Selection is made by the division chairs.  The annual maximum number of these projects is fifteen percent of the full-time teaching Faculty.

Eight copies of the above statements must be submitted to the dean of the faculty.  

The application:

1) The proposal, which should include a brief abstract, must state the project to be carried out and its importance to the teaching or scholarship of the applicant.

2) The proposal must include a statement of the courses and unit to be taught and eliminated, if taught regularly, during the year in which the leave occurs.

3) The proposal must be accompanied by a statement from the department or program chair which supports the leave and which states in specific terms what curricular adjustments will be made to accommodate the leave. No additional staff is possible for covering any course reduction.

4)  At the conclusion of the academic year in which the teaching reduction has occurred, recipients must write formal reports which become part of their professional record.

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