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, and clinical professor, lecturer of Practice, assistant professor of Practice, associate professor of Practice, and professor of Practice.

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.