Sabbaticals Work to Enhance Classroom Experience
May 26, 2009
Georgetown faculty members wear two hats -- scholar and instructor -- simultaneously, and these two roles feed off of and enhance each other.
Yet, periodically faculty members need time devoted solely to research and scholarship: the sabbatical.
Sabbaticals are an investment in faculty members and Georgetown as a whole, says Provost James O’Donnell.
“As an institution with higher and stronger research aspirations than we used to have, this is an important tool to support faculty in their research aims,” O’Donnell says.
Sabbaticals come in many forms at Georgetown. Some faculty members take leave for a semester, others for an academic year or longer. Some sabbaticals feature intense fieldwork; others have faculty members poring over manuscripts and documents in a library.
Whatever form a sabbatical takes, there is one thing it is not -- a vacation.
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