COURSE RELEASE POLICY

Course releases are granted for several reasons including:

• service on certain College committees (e.g. FPC or chair of FAC)
• service as Department Chair or Director of some departments and programs
• work supported by an institutional grant
• activities that are funded by special endowments or programs (e.g. Bryn Jones Professorship).

As a point of clarification, course releases do not relieve the faculty member from other responsibilities to the College, including advising, reading comps, serving on committees, participating in departmental business, etc. In other words, two course releases do not constitute a sabbatical term and faculty members are expected to continue to be in residence and carry out their other duties during the term in which they have a course release.

Additionally, replacement for course releases is not automatic; some are replaced and some are not.