GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SABBATICAL LEAVE
In the interest of self-improvement, professional advancement, and productive scholarship, full-time members of the rank of Assistant Professor and above shall, after six years of service in these ranks, be eligible to apply for a sabbatical leave of absence.
Applications must be made in writing through the Dean of the School of Nursing or the Chairman of the Department of the School of Medicine to the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean, no later than December 1 of the academic year proceeding the year of absence. The date is flexible depending upon the recommendation of the Nursing School Dean or the Department Chair.
In general, such leaves will be granted when the University will not encumber any academic inconvenience or such fiscal deficiency with such absence and when the applicant uses his leave for research or for formal study and not to teach in another college or university.
Normally, the terms of sabbatical leave will be either one academic year at half-basic annual salary or one semester at full annual salary. At the end of the leave period the faculty member is to report in writing to the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs within thirty days on the progress of his or her research or formal study during that time.
It is evident that the number of leaves granted in any academic year be limited. Leave for an exchange professorship is normally equivalent to a sabbatical leave.
All full-time faculty members of the Medical Center, who are on a twelve-month annual salary basis, are eligible to apply for sabbatical leave for twelve weeks with full salary. These faculty members are eligible to apply for sabbatical leave every four years. The above described procedure should be followed accordingly.
