At most colleges and universities, as at Brockport, tenured faculty are eligible for a sabbatical every seven years. It’s a wonderful privilege, with few analogs for most working Americans.  For me, a sabbatical offers the time to put aside my normal duties—which run mostly to administration, teaching, service, and supervision of other people’s research—and immerse […]

According to Wikipedia, a “sabbatical (from Latin: sabbaticus, from Greek : sabbatikos, from Hebrew: shabbat ​[i.e., Sabbath ], literally a “ceasing”) is a rest from work, or a break, often lasting from two months to a year.” However, College at Brockport policy states that the objective of a sabbatical leave is not to provide faculty with a “rest from work,” […]