Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3339 - Miami University › Chapter 3339-6 - Academic Affairs Unit › Section 3339-6-07 - Assigned research appointments

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) On-campus
An assigned research appointment provides for disciplinary and
				pedagogical research by releasing a tenured or tenure
				eligible faculty member from teaching for one semester. It assumes that
				the appointee will continue university assignments other than classroom
				teaching and therefore requires the appointee's presence on campus.
The terms of the program provide for release from teaching,
				full salary, the continuation of benefits based on full salary, and eligibility
				for salary increment and promotion.
The program is crucially important for extending the frontiers
				of knowledge. Specifics of it are outlined below:
(1) Application for assigned research is
			 initiated through the department chair to the dean, provost, and the president.
			 Final approval must be given by the president. The number of such appointments
			 which can be approved in any given semester will depend in part upon the
			 ability of the department in question and the university to meet all their
			 obligations.
(2) A reduced load for
			 assigned research shall not normally be deemed to affect the eligibility of an
			 individual member under the university faculty improvement program.
(3) The appointment of a faculty member to
			 assigned research ordinarily does not involve additional funding for a
			 department. The application must indicate how the department will cover the
			 load of the faculty member.
(4)
									 Criteria
			 for successful assigned research proposals may include but are not restricted
			 to the significance, originality, and feasibility of the project; the soundness
			 of the methodology proposed; evidence that the proposer has taken into account
			 the relevant existing work; and the record of the proposer's scholarly or
			 creative accomplishment.
(5)
			 Faculty members receiving an appointment for assigned research are obligated to
			 remain at Miami during the ensuing academic year and to make a full report of
			 the results of the assignment to the chair, dean, and provost within ninety
			 days of the completion of the assignment. If a person does not return to Miami
			 university during the ensuing academic year, he or she is expected to reimburse
			 the university a prorated portion of university salary received during the
			 assigned research leave for the portion of the post leave year that is not
			 completed.
(6) Anyone on assigned
			 research appointment will devote full time to the specific project and
			 therefore will not be engaged in other activities for which remuneration is
			 awarded (except as permitted when teaching full time and with appropriate
			 approval).
(7) Applications for
			 appointment to assigned research should be received in the academic personnel
			 services by December first, of the academic year preceding the leave period if
			 one is to receive most favorable consideration.
(8) Questions regarding the program policy
			 and guidelines should be addressed to the academic personnel services
			 office.