Department Chairs may consider requests from faculty to reduce their normal teaching duties or teaching loads by buying out of one or more courses. The Department Chair should forward requests from faculty members to the Faculty Actions Manager (via Perceptive Content) with a recommendation and a CV. The Associate Dean for Faculty Recruitment and Research Development must approve all such buy-outs.
The rate schedule applies to those teaching 4 courses per year on a two-term contract whether the course buy-out is to be financed by an external grant or by temporary reduction in base salary. Faculty whose workload is more or less than 4 courses per year will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.