Policy on Institutional Support for Leaves for Extraordinary Faculty Research:

Whenever possible, but within the limits of its resources, Fairfield University will offer financial and institutional support to any faculty member, tenured or tenure-track, who is awarded a major fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, etc.). The university will contribute the difference between the monies of such a fellowship and a faculty member's annual salary, as well as the faculty member's full annual benefits package, so that he or she may take advantage of a full year's leave for research without financial loss. This leave time and institutional support will have no direct bearing on the faculty member's cycle of eligibility for sabbatical leave. Whenever possible, faculty members are expected to make a reasonable effort to link an application for such a fellowship to the time of their sabbatical leave. [AC: 12/02/1991 ]