Purpose

Academic school deans have established faculty scholarship advisory committees to provide input concerning the estimated merit of faculty members’ teaching-equivalency alternative service in the area of scholarship.

Scope

This policy applies to all faculty with the University.

Policy

Lindenwood faculty members will be engaged in widely varied formats and types of professional endeavors that include (but are not limited to) topical research, creative writing, presentations, and performances. Evaluation of the merit of proposals must allow faculty members the latitude to pursue these different formats.

Each faculty scholarship advisory committee will include no more than seven faculty members from the school or campus. Those committees will be responsible for making recommendations on faculty members wishing to start or continue on alternative-service assignments. A member of the committee being evaluated for continuation on an alternative contract will not participate in the vetting process for the committee member’s proposal. The committee will determine whether the proposed work assignment is to be recommended for approval, and the prioritized recommendations from each FSAC are submitted to the Faculty and Student Scholarship Committee and then to the provost. The provost distributes the available number of scholarship assignments among the recommended projects based on their prioritization by the FSACs.  Approved scholarship initiatives will be reviewed as part of the annual performance evaluation; the faculty member should provide evidence of scholarship for that review. Faculty members who are on corrective action plans are not eligible for scholarship release.