Section II.J: Institutional Policy on Sabbaticals and Professional Leaves
As a component of the College’s faculty professional development program, academic leaves are designed to enrich teaching and support the curriculum. The academic leave program has two components: sabbatical leaves and professional leaves.
The purpose of sabbatical leaves is to provide opportunity for continued professional growth and new, or renewed, intellectual achievement through study, research, writing, or other creative work in a field that is related to the faculty member’s major scholastic interest.
Professional leaves have the additional purpose of providing, in appropriate circumstances, opportunity for projects of indirect benefit to the institution or for public or private service outside the institution. Professional leaves may be without pay when they carry no institutional duties or for pro rata pay when they carry a reduced workload.
Professional leaves must be negotiated on a case-by-case basis with the dean of the school to which the faculty member is appointed.
More specific policies and procedures regarding faculty academic leaves, as applicable to each school, are found in the portion of the Faculty Handbook related to each school: