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The following memo has recently been sent to all directors in the college. It is
reproduced here for your information, and to indicate the need for co-operation
amongst all faculty to ensure. responsible disbursement of funds:

TO: All Directors DATE: November 14, 1974
FROM: Educational Leave Sub-committee

RE: Educational. Leave

This letter is Intended to acquaint you with some of the concerns presently
felt by the Educational Leave Committee. These concerns have, in general,
one thing in common, and that is finance. In the first place, the Committee
realizes that the present allocation of money, 1% of the instructional budget,
is not adequate for the number of deserving applications that are being rec-
elved at this point. As times: goes on, the situations will become a great
deal more acute, unless greater co-operation is given by faculty members
throughout the college. It is hoped that the allocations of monies will
increase In the foreseeable future, but even then the need for responsible
disbursement will be in no way diminished, owing to the anticipated growth
In the number of applications.

With this thought in mind, the Committee wishes to request your continued
co-operation in investigating, with the help of department members, the most
economical way of temporarily replacing any colleague applying for educational
leave of an appropriate nature. The Committee feels that the department admin-
istrator who gives approval to a leave application should take into consideration
the drain a full-time replacement makes upon the available funds. With broader
discussions in your department involving, especially, all affected faculty, it
Is hoped that adjustments might be possible that would facilitate leave for

your immediate colleague and, also, for a number of deserving applicants in
other departments. It is common knowledge that, heretofore, discussion of leave
plans has not always occurred in department meetings and, as a result, the cost
of replacement has not been looked at realistically. Besides the financial
aspects there have been, in some Instances,disryptive factors affecting depart-
mental organization.

This will become a much more serious problem soon when the matter of the two

kinds of educational leave will arise. The time is fast approaching when eligible
faculty members will be applying for double semester leave, and the responsibility
for departmental coordination will then become a great deal more necessary. The
Educational Leave Committee should not have to weigh the implications of the Sa
leave requests !n a given department, since any decisions regarding replacement
should be made by the affected faculty members. Our Committee should be concerned,
rather, with those matters relating to the priority of the applications in terms
of benefit to the college as a whole. With the knowledge that each application,
and what it entalls, has been thoroughly examined and approved by the applicant's
colleagues, the matter of ranking the applications becomes somewhat more stralght-
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in the future, members of the Educational Leave Committee will be réquésting
time at department meetings to discuss issues related to educational leave.

Thank you for. your co-operation. 5 coe ae
Marilyn Smith,
Chairman.

P.S. A reminder - deadline for application for educational leave, Fall 1975,
is February 1, 1975.