If so stipulated, condition B is operative. This report should be submitted within three months after the faculty member's return to full-time employment. If no such exigencies are announced then all proposals must be evaluated, and sabbaticals awarded, without preference to one period over another. The candidate must meet the minimum eligibility requirements. All forms of sabbatical activity are valid.
Proposals are to be evaluated on their merits.
Preference shall be given to those candidates who have made significant academic contributions to the University. Academic contribution include those activities normally recognized in decisions of promotion and tenure, quality of teaching, scholarly activity and service to the University and the wider community. The committee shall refer to the vita for evidence of academic contributions. The time period for purposes of evaluation shall be the candidate's full length of employment at this University. After candidates have been evaluated on the basis of their academic contributions, the committee shall evaluate the merits of the specific sabbatical proposals.