Each year, the Center for Advanced Study awards about 15 appointments as associates in the center, providing released time for creative work to selected members of the tenured faculty. Appointments are made for part or all of the academic year. Associates are chosen from among faculty members with demonstrated scholarly and professional achievement, and application may be made by any member of the tenured faculty of the rank of associate professor or higher. With the approval of their departments and colleges, associates are freed from part or all of their teaching duties except, if they remain on campus, the direction of graduate theses. Associates may carry out some or all of their research at off-campus locations without losing sabbatical leave credit.
Associates continue to receive their regular salaries from their departments while on appointment.
The funds available to the center in each program category are not sufficient to pay the full costs of the appointments. The department continues to pay the full salary of the appointee, while the center contributes a modest amount to help support the classroom replacement for the appointee replacing him or her in the classroom. Thus, an appointment as an associate requires a commitment from the department in reassigning the appointee's teaching duties, and, if necessary, contributing to the support of the replacement. For additional information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729. Memo sent to deans and department heads from Center for Advanced Study announcing center programs and giving application information.