Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources

Below are diversity, equity, and inclusion resources for faculty members serving on hiring, search and promotion/tenure committees.

• Awareness in Decisions in Evaluation Promotion and Tenure
• ADVANCE Professors
• Harvard Implicit Bias Association Test

Professor of the Practice

The title “Professor of the Practice,” which is well established among many of Georgia Tech’s peer institutions, is intended to provide eminently qualified academic, business, or government leaders with a title that is customarily extended to faculty members who hold tenure.  This designation represents an effective and meaningful way for Georgia Tech to involve accomplished professionals who seek positions within a leading research university.  Further information concerning Professor of the Practice can be found in the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook.

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

The Center for Teaching and Learning promotes and supports an on-campus and online instructional community where excellence in teaching and learning is valued and where educators engage in evidence-based state-of-the-art practices that foster opportunities in which diverse students and instructors can thrive.

Faculty Governance

This site contains the meeting schedules, membership lists and meeting minutes for all Standing Faculty governance bodies, the Academic Senate, the Executive Board, and General Faculty Assembly..

Professional Absence and Leave Policies

See Faculty Handbook

Occasional absences from campus are necessitated by the professional activities of most faculty members, Institutional rules and guidelines governing categories of leave and leave of absence policies at Georgia Tech can be found in the faculty handbook.

Time Away from Campus, including International Activities

Guidelines for submitting documentation supporting requests for FMLA, absences from campus, leaves of absence and ASMD, including how to address international activities, are detailed in this memo from Faculty Affairs (October 23).

Policy on Extension of the Probationary Period for Tenure

Extensions of the probationary period for tenure may be granted to a faculty member for the purpose of balancing personal and family obligations with professional and scholarly achievement.

Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

The FMLA act provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees for certain medical and family reasons (birth of a child, care of employee’s child, spouse, or parent, serious health condition of the employee).

Information on family-friendly programs at Georgia Tech

• Time Away (FMLA, Leave of Absence, Active Service: Modified Duties and more)
• Promotion and Tenure Resources (including extending the tenure probationary period)
• Child care facilities
• Tech Wreck Summer Day Camps

Georgia Tech Employee Benefits

The information at this site explains the many benefits associated with employment at Georgia Tech, including medical, dental, and supplemental insurance, flexible spending accounts, child care center, mortgage discounts, FMLA, benefits forms and FAQ’s.

Vacation and Sick Leave Policies

This site includes information and regulations of the GT vacation and sick leave policies, including court duty, military leave, medical leave (FMLA), and includes links to OHR forms.

Maternity Leave

Maternity leave is treated like any other medical condition. Employees may use their accrued sick leave while on maternity leave to receive their full salary. This link provides further, more specific information, as well as an internal link with maternity leave (and paternity) tips for GT employees. Also, please see Active-Service Modified Duties.

Criteria for the Evaluation of Faculty Members as Teachers and Educators

See Faculty Handbook. This site defines criteria for effective teaching and the concept of faculty as educators, including course and curriculum development, teaching skills and methods, and publications and educational activities.

Criteria for the Evaluation of Service Activities

See Faculty Handbook. While faculty members usually contribute to the Institute primarily through teaching and creative activities, they may also contribute significantly to Georgia Tech through appropriate types of service to the Institute, the public, and to professional organizations.