Junior Faculty Sabbaticals

SUMMARY

The Junior Faculty Sabbatical Program provides untenured faculty in the humanities with one semester sabbaticals to advance their scholarly and/or creative projects. It is intended to further individual scholarship and/or creative work in the Humanities and aid in the recruitment and retention of humanities faculty. The faculty member receives full salary and benefits during the sabbatical and may apply for as much as an additional $1,000 for travel or research expenses. The sabbatical may be devoted to a new project, one already in progress, or the completion of a project for publication. The project must be based in a discipline of the humanities but may also be interdisciplinary.

The Junior Faculty Sabbatical is considered regular sabbatical time which counts towards tenure (Rank and Tenure, 2:5). The period of the sabbatical extends from January 1 to May 15 or from August 15 to December 31.

ELIGIBILITY

Tenure-track faculty in any department in the Humanities are eligible to apply after completing one year as tenure-track faculty members at Loyola, but they may not apply in the year in which they apply for tenure. A faculty member may receive only one Junior Faculty Sabbatical.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please see the Academic Affairs' web page for a detailed description of guidelines application process.        Academic Affairs

DEADLINE

For Faculty in the Humanities Junior Faculty Sabbatical Applications for the following academic year are due in the Center for the Humanities office (HU 221) no later than 5 pm on the last Monday in October of the prior academic year. Faculty should submit 17 copies of their application. All parts of the application should be in 12 point type.

Review Letters must be postmarked by the deadline, and faxed or email transmissions must also meet this deadline.

FINAL REPORTS FOR JUNIOR FACULTY SABBATICALS IN THE HUMANITIES

 A final report, due within 30 days after a Junior Faculty Sabbatical, is intended to encourage the faculty member to evaluate his or her work during the sabbatical and to contribute to a cumulative record for the program which may be valuable to other faculty who will apply in the future and which will also serve the Center as a specific record of the benefit of this program and a document useful in applying for future support. The report, flexible in format, should be 2-3 pages long, It should include:

a. a specific description of the research or creative work actually accomplished during the sabbatical, including its genre (e.g., book manuscript, article(s), chapter(s), story or poem(s), painting(s), etc.), its quantity (page count; dimensions) and its current status (e.g., first draft, publishable manuscript);

b. a comparison of the actual work accomplished during the sabbatical to the plan of the sabbatical application (it is understood that research or creative projects can often develop in ways quite different from their original conceptions);

c. a brief description of work other than the original project which may have been undertaken during the sabbatical;

d. a list of publications and acceptances for publications which occurred during the sabbatical.

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