Why do college professors go on a sabbatical? What’s the purpose of the sabbatical? And does the college professor get paid while on sabbatical?
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Professors take sabbaticals to have more focused time to do research/write, often traveling to someplace else to do that research. Maybe it’s an archeology professor going to Egypt to dig, maybe it’s a philosophy professor going to do research at some library in Rome, might be a chemist doing some intensive research without distraction of teaching and grading exams, might be a professor of any subject writing a book. They may also teach at a different school for a time just to get fresh perspectives, cross pollinate ideas, etc. My father-in-law was an English lit professor who did a number of sabbaticals, some in which he taught at other schools, some where he did research, and one where he mostly worked on his book.
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