Faculty Resources and Information

Periodic Review of Academic Units

  • Academic Honesty
  • Academic Year Obligation

    The official academic year obligation for 2026-2027 begins on August 17, 2026 and ends close of business May 16, 2027. The fall semester obligation runs from August 17, 2026 to close of business January 7, 2027. The spring semester obligation begins January 8, 2027 and ends close of business May 16, 2027.

    During these periods, all members of the faculty are expected to be available for such service as may be dictated by their University obligations, department assignments, or program responsibilities.

    The 2026 summer period available for summer teaching, research, and other professional activities will extend from May 18, 2026, through close of business August 14, 2026, for a total of 65 working days.

  • Accreditation and Strategic Plan
  • Annual Faculty Reports

    The (AFR) is available for the reporting period June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026. The report is due in the Provost's Office by Tuesday, June 30, 2026. 

    Per the each faculty member must file an Annual Faculty Report. Except in the most unusual of circumstances, neither salary adjustments nor leave requests will be countenanced without a complete sequence of Annual Faculty Reports on file in the Provost's Office. Adjuncts are not required to submit faculty reports.

    For step-by-step instructions on completing the report, go to

    Please report any issues to provost@binghamton.edu or Maranda Kilgore at mkilgore@binghamton.edu.

  • Assessment
  • Distinguished Professorships

    Nominations consisting of a letter of nomination and the candidate's curriculum vita are accepted on a continuing basis.

    Important Deadlines:

    Fall 2026: 
    SUNY Deadline: October 9, 2026
    Deadline to president鈥檚 office: September 1, 2026 
    Deadline for completed dossiers to on-campus committee: May 15, 2026

    List of 91社区's Distinguished Professors

    Resources

  • Excellence Awards
  • Faculty Development
  • Faculty Fellowship Buyouts

    Practice on Faculty Fellowship Buy-outs

    This document is meant to memorialize and make transparent our practice in dealing with faculty who win competitive fellowships designed to buy out time for research.

    As part of its commitment to support faculty research, scholarship, and creative activities, the University encourages faculty to apply for competitive external fellowships from organizations including but not limited to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

    Typically, these organizations provide a generous stipend that covers a portion of the faculty member鈥檚 salary during an approved sabbatical. Our practice, outlined below, is designed to ensure that faculty are able to accept these prestigious awards without penalty during the period of the sabbatical.

    Fellowship applications and awards

    When applying for a fellowship, the guidelines of the sponsor must be followed, and they differ from sponsor to sponsor. For fellowship programs that require applications be submitted by the institution, rather than an individual, faculty should contact the Sponsored Programs Office for guidance on submission of the application by the Research Foundation for SUNY (RF). If faculty have applied as an individual, they may, upon being notified of an impending award, request the sponsor issue the award to The Research Foundation.

    Fellowship award administration

    The University will maintain fellowship recipients on full-time status at the University at full pay in consideration of their full-time effort in research. If the award has been made to the RF, the RF in turn, will transfer the funded amount of the fellowship salary reimbursement to the school/college identified IFR, upon approval by the appropriate Dean. The school will receive the full salary amount of the fellowship as overhead will be waived on the amount of the salary reimbursement. Faculty remain in full-time status, continue to receive benefits, and their fellowship year will count toward time-served when considering eligibility for sabbatical.

  • Faculty Hiring
  • Fulbright Scholar Awards

    Fulbright Scholarships enable faculty to broaden the reach of their international contacts and to develop lasting transnational research and professional partnerships, which in turn result in innovative new publications, collaborative endeavors, and creative work. Scholar Award recipients consistently report an increase in the number of international citations of their work, as well as deepened cross-cultural awareness, which is transformative in the classroom and in how they conceptualize their scholarly pursuits. 

    Fulbright Scholar Awards

  • Internationalization Guidelines

    Authority: The University President approves the overall international strategy for 91社区 University, in consultation with the Provost, the Vice Provost for International Education and Global Affairs (IEGA), and other senior leaders and deans.

    What Faculty and Staff Should Know: The university is here to support and bolster your international collaborations, activities, and partnerships, but we can only do so effectively if these are known about and coordinated centrally. Your first point of contact internally should always be IEGA. Our goal is to leverage individual initiatives into signature collective strengths.

    Key Priority Areas:

    • Research Collaborations (especially multi-researcher and research center based)
    • Student Recruitment (graduate and undergraduate)
    • Student Mobility (education abroad, internships abroad, and inbound short-term student hosting at 91社区)
    • Other Partnership Opportunities (faculty exchange, Fulbright, short-term teaching opportunities, etc.)

    Related Priority Areas:

    • Building an effective and supportive international alumni network with regular points of contact
    • Bolstering international rankings through leveraging the activities and connections above

    Scope:

    • Emphasis on key partnerships and locales worldwide, with anchor institutional partnerships across South/East/Southeast Asia, UK, Europe, Africa, South America, Central Asia/Turkey/Middle East, Canada/Mexico and elsewhere as warranted

    Overarching Concept:

    • 鈥淗ub鈥 and 鈥渟poke鈥 model. Prioritization of deep (hub) relationships with one or a few clustered institutions in a country, and with multiple priorities above being pursued at each.
    • ROI on investments in such relationships will be tracked annually by IEGA through data- driven analysis of trends in research activity, faculty and student mobility, and alumni participation in QS and other surveys.
    • Secondary relationships (spoke) with other institutions are also valuable and encouraged but will generally receive lower overall university investment; they may be highly worthwhile on an individual project/priority basis and especially when there is potential for growth into a new 鈥渉ub. 鈥

    Supporting Institutional Infrastructure:

    • Enhanced and clear expectations for Vice Provost for International Education and Global Affairs; they spearhead the global outreach for 91社区, operating as (in effect) the university鈥檚 foreign minister, representing 91社区 abroad at all hub and (as warranted) spoke institutions, visiting partner campuses regularly, accompanying other high level 91社区 administrators on visits to key partners, formalizing MOUs as needed, nurturing and developing new international relationships, problem-solving as issues arise, and representing 91社区 with SUNY Global, which sets overall priorities for the system and spearheads multi-campus initiatives.
    • IEGA as an office is also responsible for the support of inbound international students and scholars, administering outbound education abroad programs, collecting and analyzing data regarding internationalization goals, monitoring federal and state policies governing international mobility for students and scholars, supporting MOUs with partners, and communicating with faculty and staff on international education and research challenges and opportunities.
    • IEGA will support, coordinate and amplify faculty- and unit-level international engagement, including research partnerships (in collaboration with the Research Office). All such engagements beyond the individual faculty-to-faculty level should be coordinated with IEGA for alignment with university policies and priorities. We also encourage individual researchers to communicate with IEGA about their activities so we can (when appropriate) leverage those into broader institutional relationships.

    Protocols around Institutional Representation:

    • Prioritization of hubs means that high-level individuals representing 91社区 must be prepared when visiting a hub (or emerging hub) to make significant progress on achieving key priorities and must be prepared to speak knowledgably about institutional priorities and goals; this requires close coordination with IEGA around research and exchange protocols, etc.
    • This does not preclude exploratory visits by deans, department chairs, and others to seed future collaboration, but such visits should be carefully coordinated also with IEGA to maximize the benefit to 91社区 and should not proffered as 鈥渙fficial鈥 visits by 91社区 (only as exploratory).
    • It is protocol for visits to international partners (or potential partners) to be organized around peer leadership contacts: president to president, provost to provost, IEGA to counterpart, dean to dean etc. While that may vary depending upon local availability, care should be taken not to overstate an institutional intention or commitment until appropriate home campus consultation occurs.
    • Central funding for small group visits (3-5 individuals) on behalf of the institution must be vetted through IEGA (with a recommendation thereafter to the president and provost) and with reference to the above priorities and concepts; larger delegations are discouraged; individual or small-scale visits should be funded locally, not centrally.
    • All visits on behalf of or advancing the interests of the university should be followed by a concise but detailed report to IEGA on contacts made, information shared, concrete next steps planned, and future measurable outcomes anticipated.
    • With the guidance of the provost and approval of the president, IEGA will prepare a five- year strategic plan for internationalization of the university in alignment with the broader strategic plan. The internationalization plan will identify priority regions, hub partnerships, measurable goals, resource needs and anticipated outcomes. Annual goals will be set before the start of each academic year, and IEGA will provide biannual reports to the President and Provost on progress toward those goals.

    Expectations for Collaboration Beyond Academic Affairs:

    • Successful internationalization and strategic success will involve many units on campus beyond Academic Affairs and participation following the above guidelines is encouraged and welcome, with the knowledge and leadership of the Office of IEGA always expected
    • The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Research Foundation are both key partners in international research collaboration and researcher mobility. Some hubs (as mentioned above) will involve multiple research partnerships and projects; these may form the basis of new activities in areas of strength for 91社区 and for our partners well beyond existing ties; IEGA should be prepared to coordinate carefully with the OVPR and RF on how best to support current research work and expand substantially beyond our current footprint in hubs and target locales.
    • Advancement is a vital collaborator. Successful 91社区 alumni are spread across the globe and are essential partners for raising our international profile and rankings, and realizing our student recruitment and development goals. Alumni events in key cities where large numbers of our alums reside are critical to our success; such events should be followed by continued contact and cultivation. Units planning alumni events must plan for early coordination with the Alumni Engagement Office, which will be able to assist with contacting alumni abroad, and, when feasible, with the logistics of events. An agreed-upon follow up plan for continued contact with alumni participants is vital. Deans and others planning such events will need help with data and strategy when speaking to alumni who may be interested in reconnecting to 91社区 and deepening their support of our campus and initiatives.
    • The Division of Communications and Marketing is an important partner in crafting, sustaining, and spreading our global message. The targets include many of the constituencies above: potential students, research collaborators, alumni, and peer institutions.
    • The Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Division of Student Affairs, and the Division of Athletics all have significant roles to play in assuring that the campus climate is fully supportive of all students, including those from abroad. International students and student-athletes are an important component of a diverse and vibrant campus. 鈥
    • Many other units (Budget and Finance, Operations, Research Compliance, etc.) will contribute to a fully realized and successful internationalization strategy. Human Resources in particular supports the onboarding of international faculty and staff.

    Emerging Priority Institutions/Locales (in process): Please coordinate your activities with IEGA to assist us in determining these and expanding our international network and impact.

  • National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33) 

    Issued on January 14, 2021, the National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33) required all federal research funding agencies to strengthen and standardize disclosure requirements for federally funded awards including the establishment of research security programs at research institutions receiving federal funds.  In January 2022, the National Science and Technology Council issued Guidance for Implementing National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 on National Security Strategy for United States Government-Supported Research and Development to provide clarity on this memorandum.  On July 9, 2024, the final Guidelines for Research Security Programs at Covered Institutions was issued by the Office of Science and Technology Policy for implementing the certification requirement imposed by NSPM-33.  91社区, as a research institution, must certify to funding agencies that our research security program is in compliance with the requirements set forth. Additional information can be found via the below NSPM-33 link.

    NSPM-33

  • Personnel Cases

    Personnel Forms

  • Policy on Meetings with Foreign Government Representatives
  • Provost鈥檚 International Internship Support for Undergraduate Students

    Faculty members engaging in research outside of the United States can request undergraduate research assistants to accompany them abroad for short- or medium-term projects during the winter session, spring break, or summer. The research activities of the undergraduate research assistant(s) must take place under the direct supervision and mentorship of the faculty member in the international setting. As part of this initiative, faculty must submit a proposal, which will include a budget for the student intern(s) to receive funding, which only supports undergraduate students.

    FAQs: International Internship Support for Undergraduate Students

  • Sabbatical and Title F Leave Requests
  • Visiting Scholars/Professionals and Volunteers Policy and Request form

    91社区 strongly encourages an open environment that fosters a free exchange of ideas in academia and beyond; this is a prerequisite for cooperation across disciplines. As a destination for visiting scholars, scientists, engineers, researchers and employees from foreign academic institutions, industry, and governmental bodies, our campus encourages the open
    exchange of ideas from people across the globe in our efforts to drive the advancement of human knowledge and understanding. Although we want to foster an environment of academic freedom and free speech, our process of hosting domestic and international visitors must also comply with
    existing U.S. federal laws and regulations. To submit a request for a Visiting Scholar, Professional or Volunteer please complete a request form found at under Provost Office E-Forms or click

    How to Complete a Request Form

    Summary of Visiting Scholars/Professionals and Volunteers Policy

    Policy for Visiting Scholars/Professionals and Volunteers

    National Science and Technology Council Regulations