Over the next year, I will be cutting back my ProfHacker posts to one per month as I will be on sabbatical.  Since our goal here at PH is to talk about ways of handling various aspects of academic life for diverse people from a range of perspectives, I plan to make that post part of a series on sabbaticals, including what they are and how to use them as effectively as possible while seeking feedback from readers about how their experiences compare.  In this first installment, it makes sense to talk about what sabbaticals are and offer a few tips on how to apply for one.

Sabbaticals offer faculty, usually tenured but not always as I have discovered in seeking feedback for this post, time to focus on research.  They can run for various periods of time while typically being for a semester or a year.  Depending on the institution, faculty on sabbatical earn their full…

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