Faculty Leaves

Leave requests

Pre-tenure faculty leaves: please see the most recent memo to FAS tenure-track ladder faculty regarding research leave eligibility for tenure-track ladder faculty and the procedures and deadlines for submitting a pre-tenure leave proposal. The process for non-tenured faculty leave proposals is managed through Interfolio.

Tenured faculty leaves: the process for tenured faculty leaves can be found on the OFAS Website and described in the most recent memo to FAS tenured ladder faculty.

Instructional faculty leaves: See the Professional Development Leave (PDL) for Instructional (Non-Ladder) Faculty page and the most recent memo to eligible instructional faculty.

Detailed information regarding faculty leaves is included in the Yale Faculty Handbook.

For detailed procedures of the FAS academic leave process, please refer to the OFAS Leaves and Teaching Relief website and the most recent memo to FAS academic unit chairs and staff.

Timeline

The FAS has instituted a change to the application timeline for all standard faculty leave requests. This change is based on feedback the FAS Dean’s Office has received since the rollout of the earlier course registration timeline and enables us to inform faculty members of leave decisions earlier in the academic year, aiding in departmental course planning.    

The deadline for all standard leave requests is September 26, 2025.

Processing leaves

Once approved, the faculty member and the academic unit will receive an approval notification. All research leaves for ladder faculty, professional development leaves for instructional faculty, and teaching relief or disability for all faculty are added automatically to Workday, and the chair’s assistant (or equivalent) only needs to adjust the costing allocation where that is relevant.

For all leave types, academic unit staff must manually return the faculty member from leave status in Workday once the leave is over.

When FAS academic unit chairs go on leave, the central FAS business office processes the leave and return from leave in Workday.