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This is a reminder for those faculty who are contemplating applying for either

1 semester or 1 year Educational Leave for Fall 77 and/or Spring 78.
Applications must be complete, have gone through appropriate review at the Disci-
pline, Divisional Professional Development Committee, and Divisional Director's
level and be submitted to the Educational Leave Committee prior to Feb 1, 1977.

 

The description and terms of Educational Leave are detailed in the Faculty
Agreement and reproduced below. Questions regarding Educational Leave should be
directed to your Divisional Representative.

Educational Leave

Educational leave is a period of paid leave
enabling a regular faculty member to be
freed from regular responsibilities and to
be provided with sufficient resources to
enable him/her to pursue educational or
personal development recognized as
beneficial to the College.

Educational leave might be used for:

(a) up-dating experience in business,
industry, community service, ete.

(b) studying, in depth. comparative
systens and methods at different
institutions;

(c) studies relevant to the Douglas
College curriculum;

(d) studying new technological devclop-
ments, related to the instructional or
administrative role of the faculty
member; and
other © iivities calculated to be of
mutual benefit to the College com-
munity and the faculty member.

All segular faculty members are eligible
for the options listed below, provided that
minimum service requirements have been
satisfied prior to commencement of the
leave, and that a suitable replacement can

be found for the period of absence. Appli-
cations by faculty members who have not
previously had leave will be given pref-
erence.

 

 

7.8.3.1.

7.8.3.2.

 

After a period of at least three years of full-
time equivalent service, educational leave
shall consist of four months’ leave at 80%
of the salary a faculty member would
receive were he/she not on leave, unless
the faculty member receives a grant,
bursary, stipend, salary or other award,
the value of which exceeds 20% of salary
during the leave period; should this occur,
the College will reduce its contribution to
the point where the total monies received
by the faculty member equal the faculty
member’s full-time salary. There is no
limit to the amount of grants a faculty
member may receive on leave.

After a period of six years of full-time
equivalent service, educational leave shall
consist of one year of leave at 80% of the
salary a faculty member would receive
were he/she not on leave, unless the
faculty member receives a grant, bursary,
stripend, salary or other award, the value
of which exceeds 20% of salary during the
leave period; should this occur, the
College will reduce its contribution to the
point where the total monies received by
the faculty member equal the faculty
member's full-time salary. There is no
limit to the amount of grants a faculty
member may receive on leave.

The College will allocate an amount equal
to 1'!4% of the instructional salary budget
to pay the costs of replacing faculty mem-
bers on educational leave during the fiscal
year.

Members of the faculty on educational
leave will receive any salary adjustments
for which they would normally be eligible.
The College will continue its full contri-
butions to the pension, insurance and
medical plans of faculty members on
educational leave.

No experience increment is payable for a
period of leave, paid or otherwise, from
the College. Where a faculty member