Faculty members initially appointed to full-time service at the College before 1998 may select either the policy outlined here with the Research Leave, or the previous policy which permitted an approved Sabbatical Leave in the seventh year without requiring a successful tenure review. The previous policy made no provision for any pre-tenure research leave other than the Harris Fellowship. Leaves for Associate Professors and Professors Sabbatical Leaves Associate Professors and Professors in regular, full-time appointments are eligible for a first sabbatical leave in the year after they are promoted to Associate Professor, or their seventh year at the college, whichever is later. However, faculty members who have taken either a research leave or a Harris Fellowship are eligible for the first sabbatical leave in the second year after the year of a successful tenure review, or their eighth year at the College, whichever is later. After the first sabbatical leave, faculty will be eligible for a sabbatical leave each seventh year.
Sabbatical leaves provide full salary for one semester or half salary for two semesters.
Applications for sabbatical leaves are due on November 15 of the academic year prior to the year of the proposed leave. These will be reviewed by the Committee on Support for Faculty Scholarship. These leaves are to be used for scholarly projects and may either be coupled with a sabbatical leave to extend it to one year at full pay, or provide a leave in between regular sabbatical leaves. Normally, study leaves will not be awarded to faculty who have taken a sabbatical leave in the past two years or who will be eligible for a sabbatical leave in two years. Faculty taking study leaves will normally be expected to continue with advising and modest service activities, but proposals which require long term absences and therefore cannot entail advising or service work will be considered.