Reassigned Time Application and Instructions

Reassigned time, allocated by the Committee for Faculty Scholarship and Development (CFS&D), allows faculty to be removed from direct teaching responsibilities and reassigned to specific and approved projects in scholarship, creative endeavors, public service, and/or applied research (including, but not limited to, research on student performance, assessment, and accreditations).

Specifics on Hours and Allocation

Per section 10.26 of RIC's collective bargaining agreement, least 36 formula hours of credit per semester will be allocated for reassigned time and distributed among faculty from the five academic schools in consideration of:

  • the relative size of the various schools
  • particular faculty needs and opportunities for productive use of the reassigned time

Faculty members who receive three or more hours of reassigned time are not eligible to receive overload and are limited to 14 FLH for the semester of reassignment.

Reassigned Time May be For

  • scholarly and creative activities
  • activities leading to publication, performance, exhibition, or presentation
  • activities related to course or instructional development, including obtaining new skills relevant to instruction or research

Reassigned Time May Not be For

  • proposals that are directly involved in contractual agreement between the applicant and another party that result in direct financial compensation to the applicant
  • time to teach at another institution

Applying for Reassigned Time

The committee will communicate the call for proposals and timeline via email. Applications are completed online. It is possible to save and return to in-progress applications. Although it is possible download the application pages to look at them offline, your changes will not be saved and your application cannot be submitted in this form.

All application must include a letter or email from a faculty member's department chair, indicating that they have been informed of the faculty member's intent to apply for reassigned time and that the department can accommodate the request.

Submit Reassigned Time Application

Accompanying Application Instructions

A reminder that per Section 10.26 of the AFT contract, you must provide and upload proof which shows that your department chair has been notified of your application. Please include a letter from the chair of your department(s) stating that they have been notified of your application for reassigned time and that the department will be able to accommodate your request. 

For questions, please contact facultyscholarship@ric.edu

  • All full-time members of the RIC-AFT are eligible to apply.
  • You may only submit one Reassigned Time application per academic year (July-June).
  • Faculty members who receive three or more formula hours of credit of reassigned time from teaching under the provisions of this section will not be eligible for overload compensation during the semester of reassignment and may not have more than 14 credits of workload overall for the semester.

Deadlines: All deadline times and dates are EST.

Applicants are requested to avoid technical jargon in their project description, keeping in mind that they are writing for a multidisciplinary audience.

Letter from Department Chair

Please include a letter or email from the chair of your department(s) stating they have been notified of your application for reassigned time and that the department can accommodate your request. Note that this need not be a letter of support or recommendation. It is an acknowledgement.

  • Awards are dependent on the quality of the proposal, justification, and the number of load hours available per school.
  • Decisions are based on merit, budget and project justification, and applicant priority. Based on the Survey on Priorities issued in January, 2019, the following priorities will be observed:
    • Assistant Professor, tenure track: +2 points added to score
    • Assistant Professor: +1 point
    • Associate Professor: +1 point
    • applicants not awarded reassigned time in the last five years: +2 
    • applicants who were productive in their previous reassigned time: +1 
    • projects that directly benefit RIC students: +1
    • projects that benefit teaching, whether a skill, practice, or a new course: +1
    • projects that are close to completion: +1
    • new projects: +1

While we would like to honor every request for reassigned time, requests usually exceed available hours. Applications are competitive and every effort should be made to follow instructions, include supporting materials, and complete the application fully. If you have received any counsel from the chair of the committee in relation to extenuating circumstances of your situation, please note that in your application.

Applications received will be evaluated by a committee made up of nine members:

  • four faculty members appointed by Rhode Island College Council (the Committee on Committees).
  • four faculty members appointed by the RIC/AFT President with consultation by the RIC/AFT Executive Committee.
  • one member appointed by the VPAA.

The Committee will evaluate applications along the lines of the following review process:

  • The nine members review and rate applications according to a standard scoring system for each grant (noted on the applications), recusing themselves from evaluating their own applications and applications from members of their department.
  • As a matter of policy, the CFS&D shall endeavor to distribute reassigned time in such a manner as to encourage as many faculty members as possible to engage insignificant research/creative activities. In this regard, the CFS&D will endeavor to allocate all reassigned time available.
  • If it is deemed necessary, the CFS&D may invite competent authorities to assist in the evaluation of research projects and/or request the names of three qualified references who may be contacted to assist in evaluating a proposal.
  • The CFS&D may, at its discretion, interview applicants before reaching final decisions.

Requirements for Recipients

  • The reassigned time recipient shall acknowledge the support from the College in any publication supported in whole or part by grants from the Rhode Island College Committee for Faculty Scholarship and Development.
  • Faculty are requested to submit a copy of any publications resulting from this support to Veronica Denison, Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Adams Library, where it will be filed and made available for public consultation. Faculty might also consider posting articles on Digital Commons.
  • A final report is required of all reassigned time recipients. Until a report is filed, future reassigned time applications will not be accepted by the CFS&D. Reports from previous years must be submitted by the stipulated deadline unless the applicant has requested and received from the CFS chair an extension in writing before the deadline indicating why the report will not be filed on time.

Submit Final Report

Previous Recipients​

2021-2022

Last NameFirst NameSchoolDepartmentRankSemesterProjectHours
AllardAmelieFASAnthropologyAssistant ProfessorFall 2021Community-building through Archaeology: Setting up the Project4
BrabeckKalinaFSEHDCEPProfessorSpring 2022Inter-Professional Training Model to Serve Under-Insured Immigrant Clients3
Del VecchioAndreaFASPhysical SciencesAssociate ProfessorFall 2021Stress Evolution During Metallic Thin Film Deposition3
DuncanStephen (Matt)FASPhilosophyAssociate ProfessorFall 2021Acquaintance and New Metaphysics4
FeeneyJustinSchool of BusinessMarketing and ManagementAssistant ProfessorFall 2021Developing an Open Educational Text and Video Series for Human Resource Management4
HessonSarahFSEHDEducational StudiesAssociate ProfessorSpring 2022Critical Language Awareness Project3
Hui-MichaelYingFSEHDSpecial EducationProfessorFall 2021International Special Education4
KenePrachiFSEHDCEPProfessorSpring 2022Intimate Partner Violence3
KimMoonsilFASHistoryAssociate ProfessorFall 2021Digital Humanity for History4
LindeRobynFASPolitical ScienceAssociate ProfessorFall 2021Feeding the Beast: Amnesty International and UN Engagement 1961–20204
MichaudMichaelFASEnglishProfessorFall 2021A Writer Reforms Writing: Donald Murray, UNH, and The Birth of Composition Studies (1963-1987)4
OkoomianJaniceFASEnglish / Gender & Women's Studies ProgramAssistant ProfessorFall 2021Writing Oral History Article for Scholarly Publication3
ReamerFredericSSWMSWProfessorFall 2021Philosophy and Social Work3

2020-2021​

Last NameFirst NameSchoolDepartmentRankSemesterProjectHours
BorenKarenFASEnglishProfessorSpring 2021The Contract: A Nove1
CostaStephanieFASMathematics and Computer ScienceProfessorFall 2020Inquiry Based Investigations in R4
DarcyMonicaFSEHDEducational Leadership, andProfessor Spring 2021National Accreditation Self-Study (CACREP) for MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling3
HawkBrandonFASEnglishAssistant ProfessorSpring 2021Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture Digital Research Center4
HessonSarahFSEHDEducational StudiesAssistant ProfessorSpring 2021ESL Teacher Preparation Program3
Hui-MichaelYingFSEHDSpecial EducationProfessorSpring 2021Education of RI Multilingual Learners with Special Needs4
JohnsonJanetFSEHDEducational StudiesProfessorSpring 2021Retaining Educators of Color in Rhode Island: Problems and Possibilities2
KenePrachiFSEHDCEPProfessorSpring 2021Psychiatric Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Assessment and Treatment3
MedwidMarkFASMathematics and Computer ScienceAssistant ProfessorSpring 2021Evaluation of the Unreal Engine As a Possible Mathematical and/or Pedagogical Resource4
MillerElisaFASHistoryAssociate ProfessorSpring 2021"Progressive Domesticity: Women, Domestic Science, and Higher Education in Turn-of-the-Century America"4
NohYureeFASPolitical ScienceAssistant ProfessorFall 2020The Politics of Electoral Manipulation in Autocracies4
PepinKristenFSEHDHPEAssistant ProfessorSpring 2021Exploring Student Wellness3
PfeifferElizabethFASAnthropologyAssistant ProfessorFall 2020Under Advanced Contract with) Rutgers University Press, Special Series in Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice4
SiegelSiegelSSWMSWProfessorFall 2020AHEC: Area Health Education Collaborative3
TortolaniChrsitinaFSEHDEducational Leadership &Associate ProfessorFall 2020Disseminating Eating Disorders Education and Treatment Across Multiple Levels of Care: Improving Access in the Rhode Island Medicaid Population3
WeinerRichard RFASPolitical Science PProfessorSpring 2021Completing 4th book re Political Sociology & My Arc of Scholarship2

2019-2020

Last NameFirst NameDepartmentRankTitleSemesterHours
BergAmyPhilosophyAssistant ProfessorProjects in ethics and the philosophy of wellbeingSpring 20204
BrennanPatriciaReference and Research SupportAssociate ProfessorWriting & Research - data analysis and interpretation from the FYW Research Fluency ProjectSpring 20201
CaouetteBeckyFYW Program/EnglishAssociate ProfessorWriting & Research: Data Analysis and Interpretation from the FYW Research Fluency Project.Spring 20202
DuncanMatt (Stephen)PhilosophyAssistant ProfessorMetaphysics Articles, Book, and WorkshopSpring 20204
EdelmanElijahAnthropologyAssistant ProfessorEstablishment of RIC Allens Avenue Community Partnership and Field SchooSpring 20204
England KennedyElizabethHPEAssistant ProfessorReduction of Homelessness through Alternative Housing First Pathways (working title)Spring 20203
FureyJenlynCounseling, Educational Leadership, & School Psychology (CEP)Assistant ProfessorTeacher Preparation to Support Linguistically Diverse StudentsFall 20193
HawkBrandonEnglishAssistant ProfessorSources of Anglo Saxon Literary Culture Database CreationFall 20194
HofhanselClausPolitical ScienceAssociate ProfessorDuties, Loyalty and CitizenshipSpring 20203
HornMarthaElementary EducationAssociate ProfessorTeaching Writing: Learning through TeachingSpring 20204
KiserAprilHistoryAssistant Professor'Describing the true and lively figure of every beast:’ The Usefulness of Images in Early Modern Natural HistorySpring 20204
LindeRobynPolitical ScienceAssociate ProfessorInternational Nongovernmental Organizations Studies Program RevisionFall 20194
LittlePeterAnthropologyAssistant ProfessorPost-PhD Research Grant: A Multi-Sited Anthropological Study of Solar Energy WasteSpring 20204
Mello-StarkSuzanneMathematics and Computer ScienceAssistant ProfessorCybersecurity Curriculum ProjectSpring 20204
MillerElisaHistoryAssociate ProfessorCompletion of the Rhode Island component of the “Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States"Fall 20194
OkoomianJaniceGender & Women's Studies ProgramAssistant Professor“Speaking of Gender”: analysis of oral history research on Armenian women.Fall 20194
OlsonJeannineHistoryProfessor2 articles: Beza & Nicolas Des Gallars, 2 Reformers, Best of Friends?; The Colloquy of Poissy of 1561, Success or Failure?Spring 20204
OstasMagdalenaEnglishAssistant Professor"Wittgenstein and Narrative": Essay for Wittgenstein and Literary Studies from Cambridge University PressFall 20194
PfeifferElizabethAnthropologyAssistant ProfessorReassigned-Time for Continued Scholarship on HIV-Related Stigma in KenyaFall 20194
PicardSaraArtAssociate ProfessorImperfect Likenesses: The Unexpected Life of Jules LionFall 20192
Ravenscroft , Jr.RobertMathematics and Computer ScienceAssociate ProfessorHands-On Learning in Computer Architecture with a Chipkit ComputerFall 20194
RawsonGlennPhilosophyAssociate ProfessorHeraclitus' Logos and Early Greek RationalismFall 20194
SaatciogluKemalEconomics and FinanceAssistant ProfessorExploring Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) FactorsFall 20194
SawyerJasonHPEAssistant ProfessorComparison of the Effects of a Resistance Training versus Aerobic Exercise on Depression and Anxiety in College Aged IndividualsSpring 20203
ShogenjiTomojiPhilosophyProfessorFrom Probability to Proximity: Further ConsequencesFall 20194
SiegelDeborahMSWProfessorArea Health Education Collaborative (AHEC): Program Design, Implementation and EvaluationFall 20193
TurkiSalamMathematics & Computer ScienceAssistant ProfessorArbitrary Convolution of Scale Mixtures of Normal DistributionsSpring 20204
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