Application Deadline

Application Deadline: October 1, 2007

Application Form

Professional Development Leave Application Form for AY 2008/2009 (Word)

Professional Development Leave Introduction

Professional development leaves are granted to increase an employee's value to the University through enhanced opportunity for professional renewal, educational travel, study, formal education, research, writing, or other experience of professional value, not as a reward for service.

Eligibility

Unit and non-unit, full-time, permanent employees within the faculty pay plan with three or more years of service, except those who are serving in tenure-earning or tenured positions, shall be eligible for professional development leaves.

Contract and grant employees who wish to apply for professional development leave must provide written documentation that the funding agency will permit compensation for such leave through the contract or grant. If such documentation is not provided, the University will not consider the application for professional development.

An employee who has previously been granted a professional development leave shall not be eligible for a second professional development leave until three years of continuous service are completed following the previous leave.

Length of Award/Salary Benefits

One semester at full pay, or its equivalent (for example, two semesters at half pay).

Application Process

Each proposal is to include a cover sheet to record the applicant's name, unit, and other pertinent information. The remainder of the application is to be a narrative not to exceed four double-spaced, typewritten pages in which are described the proposed activities and an enumeration of the benefits which will accrue to you and to The University of West Florida if a paid leave is awarded.

Applications for professional development leave for eligible unit employees shall be submitted to the Provost for Academic Affairs, via the Dean/Director, for referral to the Growth and Development Committee. The Committee shall submit a list of recommended employees to the President, via the Provost, using criteria and procedures as established by the Committee.

Application for professional development leave for eligible non-unit employees shall be submitted to the Provost for Academic Affairs, via the Dean/Director, for referral to the Growth and Development Committee. The Committee shall submit a list of recommended employees to the President, via the Provost, using criteria and procedures established by the Committee.

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