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Faculty Career Flexibility
Recruiting and retaining faculty to support our vision to be a metropolitan research university of distinction is one of the most important investments Boise State University makes. Therefore, we are committed to offering you the flexibility you need to enter, thrive in, and retire from your academic profession while meeting your professional, personal, and family responsibilities.
We know that life circumstances change and professional interests develop over time. The start of the semester is a good time to remind you of the following policies and programs at Boise State University designed to create options that you might wish to explore as your life and work unfolds.
Faculty Dual Career Program
Purpose: To assist dual career couples to be able to consider accepting tenure-track faculty positions when hiring is contingent on employment for both in areas of their respective fields.
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/4240_FacultyDual-CareerProgram.pdf
Shared Leave Policy
Purpose: To provide a means for faculty and staff who have not accrued enough sick leave to use leave time donated by other employees
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/7220_sharedleave.pdf
Tenure Clock Extension Policy
Purpose: To extend the probationary period of a tenure-track faculty member who has circumstances that impede progress toward achieving tenure such as childbirth, adoption, dependent care, chronic illness, or other circumstances beyond the faculty member’s control
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/4370_FacultyTenureProcedures.pdf
Leave After Birth, Adoption, or Foster Care Placement
Purpose: To provide for partial or full relief of duties for mothers and fathers after the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/7230_familymedicalleaveactof1993.pdf
Leave for a Serious Health Condition or Disability
Purpose: To provide for partial or full relief of duties due to serious health condition or disability
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/7230_familymedicalleaveactof1993.pdf
Leave to Care for Spouse, Domestic Partner, Child, or Parent
Purpose: To provide for partial or full relief of duties to care for a family member
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/7230_familymedicalleaveactof1993.pdf
Workload for Official Faculty Policy
Purpose: To balance the scholarly and service interests of individual faculty members to optimize faculty contributions to professional and institutional goals
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/4560_FacultyWorkload.pdf
Faculty Voluntary Phased Retirement Program
Purpose: To provide faculty with a voluntary phased approach to retirement
Policy Link: http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/4470_FacultyVoluntaryPhasedRetirementProgram.pdf
Whenever you have questions about whether the options described above might be right for you, talk with your Department Chair about taking steps to participate in programs or apply policies to your circumstances.