Tenured Instructional Faculty
CHSS tenured instructional faculty interested in applying for a faculty study leave to be taken during the 2025-2026 academic year must submit their application materials by email to the college by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 11, 2024.
Full-time, tenured instructional faculty who meet eligibility criteria are invited to pursue this opportunity:
- Faculty must have completed at least six (6) years of service at the time of application, which means faculty who start their appointments later than the fall of 2018 are not eligible to apply in this round.
- Faculty that have been awarded a tenured instructional faculty study leave previously may only receive a leave every seven years. This means that the latest faculty study leave would have been awarded for the 2018-2019 academic year or earlier.
Leave may be taken during the Fall or Spring semester of the academic year after the award is announced. Leave may be taken for one semester at full pay or two semesters at half pay, with approval by the department chair and Dean.
To ensure eligibility, potential applicants should review the complete application guidelines, submission information and eligibility criteria here.
Questions regarding the tenured instructional faculty study leave program should be directed to Michele Schwietz, the college’s associate dean for research. Applications for study leave for the 2025-2026 academic year must be submitted by email at chssadr@gmu.edu to the college by 5pm on Friday, October 11, 2024.
Term Instructional Faculty
Term faculty study leave opportunities were established by Faculty Handbook revisions approved by the Board of Visitors in July 2021 (see Faculty Handbook section 3.6.2 Leave Programs for Instructional Faculty). Applicants are encouraged to craft proposals that make explicit connections between their proposed activities and the purposes described in the Faculty Handbook.
For Term Faculty in CHSS, study leave activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Creation and/or revision of pedagogical materials and methods.
- Scholarly and/or creative activities that draw or reflect on the faculty member’s teaching.
- Scholarly and/or creative activities that maintain and/or develop knowledge, skills, and abilities relevant to the faculty member’s teaching.
- Other activities which support the ongoing missions and/or current initiatives of the department or program, College, University, or other professional communities to which the faculty member belongs.
Term instructional faculty should review eligibility criteria and application instructions, located here. Applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, October 11, 2024.
Questions regarding this program may be addressed to Mohammad Salama, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.
August 08, 2024