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Overview
Sabbaticals are intended to provide opportunities for individual faculty development and renewal which may take many forms, including projects of intellectual renewal which will foster professional development; training or branching out into new areas of teaching or research, or improving technical skills through focused study.
How to Apply
Submit your sabbatical application through the Sabbatical Application Dynamic Form.
Due Dates
See Faculty Processes and Key Dates on SharePoint for all relevant dates in the process.
Documents Required for Application
When applying for a sabbatical, you'll need to have the following three documents ready:
- Up-to-date CV (Abbreviated CV is preferred)
- Annual Faculty Report
- Sabbatical Proposal (see recommended template below)
- Brief Abstract of your Proposed Sabbatical Project (PSP)* (no more than 300 words)
- Description of your PSP (5-10 double-spaced pages, 12-point font)
- Goals of your PSP
- Planned activities designed to achieve these goals
- Timeline/implementation plan for these activities
- Planned outcome(s) or accomplishment(s)
- Explanation of how you will demonstrate or provide evidence of achieving the proposed outcome(s)
- Connection between your professional interests and your PSP
- Connection between your goals, as discussed in your Annual Faculty Report, and the PSP
- Benefit of the PSP outcome(s) to your academic program or area
- Benefit of the PSP outcome(s) to Lesley University’s Strategic Priorities
- Connection between the PSP outcome(s) and your responsibilities at Lesley University
* A PSP may contain more than one separate project.
Sabbatical Rubric and Decisions
This Sabbatical Rubric is used by the Faculty Life and Development committee to provide recommendations to the provost.
Sabbatical applications are not guaranteed to be approved. Applications are evaluated by the Faculty Life and Development committee which makes recommendations to the provost who, in turn, makes the final sabbatical decisions.
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