Faculty and Academic Staff Request to be Absent

Notes:

• If you also teach in a department other than Zoology, you will need to complete a form for that department as well.
• This form is not required when not on University payroll, but is recommended whenever travel is business or professionally related.
• NOTE: For academic year absences of more than two weeks, traveler should download and complete this pdf form and submit to department office at least three weeks prior to planned absence.  The department chair should forward the signed request to Dean’s office, 105 South Hall, at least two weeks prior to planned absence.  Otherwise, file at departmental level. 
• Summer Session: Discuss all absences of teaching staff in advance with Associate Dean Nancy Westphal-Johnson.

FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES...No member of the faculty shall be absent from his/her classes or other regular duties at the University except by permission of the chancellor or appropriate dean.  Faculty members shall avoid a concentration of class hours that is detrimental to effective teaching.  Faculty Policies and Procedures, Chapter 8.02.

VACATION.  If you are an academic-year basis (9 month) staff member, whether full or part-time, you do not earn vacation and are expected to work during the appointment period except for days specifically listed as paid holidays.  (Almost all faculty and instructional academic staff in L&S are on an academic-year basis.  If you are an annual-basis employee, see the Benefits Booklet for details about accrued vacation time.)  UW-Madison Employee Benefits Booklet

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