Sabbatical Criteria

The Sabbatical Leave Committee utilizes the following process to guide its deliberations on sabbatical leave applications. The Committee reviews all submitted applications during the month of July. Strict adherence to the Sabbatical Leave Guidelines will assure favorable review and assignment to one of the sabbatical openings.

Those candidates submitting incomplete applications will be notified and asked to revise their application before October 1. In October, the remaining pool of applicants will be reviewed and the remaining openings filled. Faculty are urged to submit a complete application initially to avoid assignment to the October pool and the possibility of insufficient remaining openings.

The Committee takes its direction from the faculty contract, which contains the following statements:

• An application for sabbatical leave, in the form of a detailed written statement of purpose for the leave, shall be submitted by July 1, fourteen (14) months before the academic year for which the leave is requested.
• A member of the faculty who has served full-time for at least six (6) years, who has the rank of assistant professor or above and who is on tenure, shall be eligible for sabbatical leave.
• Upon completion of the academic year during which the sabbatical leave is taken, the faculty member shall begin again to accumulate leave service credit, becoming eligible for an additional sabbatical leave upon the accumulation of additional (minimum) six (6) year period of service credit.
• At the close of the leave period, the faculty member shall file with the appropriate dean, a detailed report of his professional activities during his absence in which he relates goals attained with those proposed in the leave request.
• The interest of the College, in addition to the professional and personal needs of the individual, shall be a major consideration in granting the leave.

SABBATICAL CRITERIA

1. Eligibility as determined by contract.
2. No previous sabbaticals, duration of employment period greater than six (6) years.
3. No previous sabbaticals, duration of employment at minimum of six (6) years.
4. One previous sabbatical, intervening period greater than six (6) years.
5. One previous sabbatical, intervening period of minimum of six (6) years.
6. Two previous sabbaticals, intervening period greater than six (6) years.
7. Two previous sabbaticals, intervening period of minimum of six 6) years.
8. Three previous sabbaticals, intervening period greater than six (6) years.
9. Three previous sabbaticals, intervening period of minimum of six (6) years.

Please remember your application must be reviewed by your department chairperson, who must submit it to be stamp dated by Dean Sullivan in the Knight Campus Academic Affairs Office before July 1.