Sabbatical and Other Leaves
Sabbatical Leave
The objective of a sabbatical leave is to increase the faculty member's value to the College and thereby improve and enrich its programs. Sabbatical leaves are for the purposes of planned travel, study, formal education, research, writing, or other experience of professional value; they are not regarded as a reward for service nor as a vacation or rest period occurring automatically at stated intervals.
The following faculty have been approved for sabbatical leave during the 2024-25 academic year.
Academic Year 2024-25
- Ahmad Almomani, Mathematics, Applied Optimization Algorithms for Sustainability
- Raslan Ibrahim, Political Science & International Relations, The Norms and Practices of Sovereignty in the Arab State System
Spring 2025
- Jovana Babovic, History, The Youngest Yugoslavs: An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory
- Susana Castillo-Rodriguez, Global Languages & Cultures, The Origins of the Methodist Church in Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea)
- Eric Helms, Chemistry, Measurement of 15N NMR Chemical Shifts at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
- Stephen Tulowiecki, Geography & Sustainability Studies, Advancing knowledge of tree species distributions and the legacies of human land use in forests of New York State
Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave
The Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave program provides funds to help employees prepare for permanent or continuing appointments. Preference is given to employees who are underrepresented based on their protected class status. The program also seeks to promote diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity for specific employees in a department, unit, or program that can demonstrate that they are under-represented in that department, program, or unit.
The following faculty were awarded a Drescher Leave by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion NYS/UUP Joint Labor-Management Committee:
Fall 2024
- Amanda Lewis-Nang'ea, History
- Olaocha Nwabara, English
Spring 2024
- Hanna Brant, Political Science and International Relations
- Varuni Jamburuthugoda, Biology
- Ling Ma, History
Fulbright Scholar Leave
The Fulbright Scholar Program is one of the most widely recognized and prestigious international exchange programs in the world and is open to faculty and professionals at all stages of their careers, including retirement. The program, which supports activities and projects that promote the relationship between educational exchange and international understanding, provides grants to support research or teaching in a participating country for a set duration of time (often the equivalent of one academic semester or a full academic year).
The following faculty received 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards:
Spring 2023
- Scott Giorgis, Geological Sciences, Paleomagnetic Insights into Fault Movement in the Northern Andes, Barranquilla, Colombia
Fall 2022
- D. Jeffrey Over, Geological Sciences, Collaborative Studies and Teaching in Geological Sciences: Event Stratigraphy, Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology, and Research Investigation of Environmental Changes During the Late Devonian Global Crisis, Brno, Czech Republic