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APPENDIX C: SABBATICAL LEAVES AND LEAVES OF ABSENCE WITHOUT PAY

IMPLEMENTATION

6.		Implementation of leave policy If in a given semester, in a given department, the number of persons eligible for sabbatical leave is too great for the successful maintenance of that department's curriculum, the department must establish an order of priority to determine who may be absent in that semester (and who must be present). Normally, the following order of priority will be established: Persons who will have taught for six years since their last previous sabbatical or since their promotion to or appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor and who will have taught at Smith continuously for the previous six years. Persons whose situation is like that described above except that their last six years of teaching will have been broken by a leave without pay, but who will have taught at Smith continuously for at least the previous three years. Persons who will be eligible for the one-semester sabbatical option, having served three years since their last sabbatical or two years since their promotion from Instructor to Assistant Professor and who will have taught at Smith continuously for the previous three years. Persons whose situation is like that described in (i.) except that there will have been an interruption of their service by a leave without pay within the previous three years. Persons whose situation is like that described in (iii.) except that their service will have been interrupted within the previous three years. The order of priority established by a department must be in accord with the principle of separation of absences as articulated in (5.c.). A member eligible for a sabbatical leave who is unable to take it because of deferment as a result of the priority schedule in the department will, in the following year, have higher priority than those whose status at that time is otherwise the same but who have not been deferred. The member will not be placed at a disadvantage as to the timing of his or her next sabbatical as a consequence of the deferment. Requests for leave of absence without pay should always be considered by departments in the total context of their overall needs.
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