Funded Faculty Incentive Program

Noting the teaching load and cost of release at John Jay College, the Office for the Advancement of Research (OAR) has established the Funded Faculty Incentive Program. As incentive for faculty productivity, any faculty member with release time funded through external awards at the full rates listed below, may request additional release time from this fund as a one to one incentive. Faculty with 15% of their time funded as release may request one additional course. Faculty with 30% of their academic year effort funded as release may request up to two additional courses. This program is capped at up to two courses per year. The externally funded course release must be used prior to the award end date, and this is not presented as a matching program, rather as a productivity incentive program. Release provided through this program must be used during the award period and in the same academic year as the externally-funded release. This program may not apply to external awards with limited or no indirect costs. To utilize this fund, faculty must submit a request in writing to the Office of Sponsored Programs at sponsoredprograms@jjay.cuny.edu.

In your request, please include the following information:

Sponsor Name
Project Title
 PI Name (If different from release applicant)
RFCUNY Account # or Project Sub Year (PRSY)
Start and End Dates of Current Budget Period
Semester and/or Academic Year to use originally budgeted Release
Semester and/or Academic Year to use Incentive Release
Copy of Budget and/or Justification indicating full release
Incentive Release cannot be guaranteed at the time of submission of a proposal to an external sponsor. 

Post-Award Instructions
Once your request is approved, the Office of Sponsored Programs will assist you in preparing a Staff Effort Notice to properly document and charge out your release time.  Note that the Staff Effort Notice must be completed before the period in which the release time will be charged/used, and must reflect both the budgeted and incentivized release time on the same form.  The funded faculty incentive cannot be applied to courses that have already been charged to an award.