Salary Grant Coverage, Course Reductions, and Buyouts Faculty may buy out their teaching with money from grants. They may also reduce their normal teaching load by accepting a reduction in pay. This provides an outline of the policy on academic year salary grant coverage and teaching load reductions based on such coverage.
Senior Faculty Research Semester Competitive awards that provide faculty with a nonteaching semester and research funds to focus on a scholarly or creative project or initiative.
Theodore and Jane Norman Junior Faculty Research Leave All full-time, tenure-track faculty whose teaching load is at least two courses per year are guaranteed one semester of paid research leave in either the fourth or fifth year of residence at the university.
Paid Leaves for Faculty Faculty outside the tenure structure who have completed 14 semesters may be eligible for paid leave.
Additional Information
Sabbaticals: Faculty are eligible for sabbatical leave in the seventh academic year after completion of 12 semesters of full-time service at Brandeis. Sabbatical leave is granted by the provost, with the advice of the department chair and the appropriate academic dean, to faculty who have held rank of associate professor with tenure or professor with tenure for at least two semesters of full-time service.
Pathways to Retirement: Brandeis University offers three retirement options for tenured faculty members over 65.