NLFWR - Eligibility

Eligible nontenure line faculty :

• Will hold a full-time teaching appointment at the time of application and during the workload release period, and 
• Will hold one of the following titles:
  Lecturer
  Senior Lecturer
  Clinical Lecturer
  Clinical Assistant Professor
  Clinical Associate Professor
  Clinical Professor
  Research Assistant Professor
  Research Associate Professor
  Research Professor
  Lecturer of Practice
  Assistant Professor of Practice
  Associate Professor of Practice
  Professor of Practice
  Assistant Professor of Instruction
  Associate Professor of Instruction
  Professor of Instruction

Emeriti, Research, and Visiting faculty are not eligible.

• Nontenure line faculty applying for the first time must have had at least 8 long semesters of Texas State service at 50% or more FTE and a 100% FTE appointment by the start of the leave.  
• Faculty who have been granted previous Nontenure Line Faculty Workload Release(s) must have had an academic appointment of at least 8 long semesters at Texas State at 50% or more FTE by the start of the leave since their last Nontenure Line Faculty Workload Release and hold a current full-time teaching appointment.