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g. reading scholarly papers before learned societies and professional organizations; and
h. other scholarly activity approved by the Dean in consultation with the department
chair.
A STEPP election form must be submitted each year, even for a continuation of previous
scholarship work. A faculty member who receives a scholarship STEPP Component must submit
a scholarship report in the fall semester of the next academic year, as follows:
a. Pre-tenure faculty who are not applying for tenure or promotion must submit the
scholarship report as part of the annual self-evaluation;
b. Faculty who are applying for tenure or promotion must submit the scholarship report as
part of the application for tenure or promotion;
c. Tenured faculty who are being reviewed must submit the scholarship report as part of the
post-tenure self-evaluation;
d. Faculty who are not scheduled for review must submit a scholarship report to their
immediate academic supervisor no later than September 15.
Failure to submit a scholarship report may result in denial of a future STEPP Component for
scholarship at the discretion of the immediate academic supervisor and/or the Dean.
If a scholarship report submitted by a faculty member does not, in the opinion of the department
chair and/or the Dean, show satisfactory progress on the work performed during the previous
academic year, the next request for a STEPP Component for scholarship may be denied. In this
event, the decision of the Dean is final, and the faculty member will be required to submit a new
STEPP election form for an option other than scholarship for that year.
The University recognizes that it may be difficult to predict unforeseen opportunities for
scholarship that arise for faculty. It is understood that shifts away from the specific scholarship
idea described on a given year’s election form to more fruitful or promising alternative projects is
part of the nature of academic inquiry.
2. Teaching: Teaching a seventh course and acceptance of the duties and responsibilities of
teaching described in section 12.3.1.1; or teaching and/or participating in a semester-long faculty
seminar that meets on a regular basis to learn about a significant dimension of the mission of
Regis College, such as a seminar on Jesuit Catholic intellectual tradition or Ignatian pedagogy or
Ignatian spirituality.
3. Extraordinary Service: Unique circumstances faced by an individual faculty member may
occasionally allow a personally-defined STEPP Component of workload as approved by the Dean
in consultation with the department chair. Standard expectations for service are delineated in
12.3.1 and 17.2.5. Examples of extraordinary service include, but are not limited to:
a. a substantially higher than normal student advising load (more than 30 students);
b. service on multiple committees at the request of the administration; or
c. Chairing a department or program and serving on a major committee.
4. Pedagogy: Engaging in innovative or labor-intensive course preparation and teaching
activity. Regis College requires that its students be broadly educated across the fields of the
liberal arts. In turn, teaching demands on College faculty go beyond narrow specialization and
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