Procedure for Sabbatical Leave Requests

email from Therese McCarty, Dean of Faculty, November 12, 2007.

NOTES: Specific deadline for applications will vary by year, but is during the first week of the Winter term.

Mellon Funding is available for the duration of the 4-college Mellon grant.

 

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Faculty colleagues,

 

I am writing with information regarding the procedure for sabbatical leave requests.

 

The Faculty Manual specifies a January 1 deadline for sabbatical leave requests for the subsequent academic year.  We can, however, accommodate requests received in my office by Thursday, January 10. Faculty members with pending tenure cases and upcoming reappointment reviews should submit their requests by this deadline, with the understanding that approval of the sabbatical leave is contingent on passing the review.  Guidelines for sabbatical leaves are given in the Faculty Manual, Section II, page 29: http://www.union.edu/Academics/AcademicAffairs/FacultyManual/

 

Please follow this procedure in submitting a sabbatical request:

 

(1) If you have not filed a sabbatical report for your previous sabbatical with my office, please do so before submitting your sabbatical request.

 

(2) Forward your sabbatical request by email to your department chair, with a request that the department chair forward it to me (by email) with a note indicating his or her approval of the request.

 

I want to make sure that you are aware of the 4-college Mellon grant support for faculty development for senior faculty members.  The grant provides $50,000 per year for faculty development, to be distributed to faculty members at the time of sabbatical leaves, for support of faculty development activities during or following the sabbatical leave.  Last year, I was able to distribute $4000 to senior faculty members on full sabbatical and $2000 to senior faculty members on mini-sabbatical.  Amounts distributed this year are likely to be similar.  This has become an important component of our faculty development support program.  In mid-January, once I know who will be on sabbatical, I will send those faculty members a notice inviting applications for use of the Mellon funds.  Junior faculty members and just-tenured faculty members are not eligible for these funds.

 

Applications for sabbatical leave that are not received by January 10 most likely will not be approved at the February board meeting (the subsequent meeting is in June) and most likely will not be eligible for Mellon funds. 

 

Many thanks for your attention to the deadline and procedures.

 

Best regards,

Therese