Each Fall and Spring Semester:

• A 1-2 day retreat may be taken (with a maximum of 1 overnight) by a department each semester. This retreat may be at either the department campus or department systems level.
• An additional half-day or whole-day retreat can be held for All Staff at a campus OR teams at the systems level.

Extra Considerations:

• Special consideration may be requested and granted on a case-by-case basis by the systems campus management team, the @Anonymous group, or other Executive leadership, if outside the bounds of this policy.
• Unless special permission has been granted, individual employees’ Vacation leave (and personal expenses) will be utilized if a retreat extends beyond the time allowed.
• Administrators/staff who are split across multiple departments will likely only be able to be out of the office for half of the time allotted for the retreat. As a result, consideration must be given to factors such as the retreat location distance, if the Administrator/staffer is, for example, traveling between 2 different department retreats back to back. Thus, we encourage retreats to occur within a 3-hour distance from BCS.