Senior Sabbatical Leave

Senior Sabbatical Applications are due by 5 p.m. on the first Monday in October.

Faculty members applying for senior sabbatical leave are reminded that electronic copies of the application, as well as the required departmental letter of support, must be submitted electronically via the web form no later than 5 p.m. on the first Monday in October.

In preparing applications, faculty should consult the sabbatical leave guidelines and sabbatical application format. In addition, the departmental coverage form, is to be completed by the department chair and submitted online at the time of the application.

NOTE: Tenured full-time faculty members are eligible for sabbatical leave upon the satisfactory completion of six years in the service of the University since the academic year of the last sabbatical leave. Please review example scenarios below for additional information:

Faculty members are encouraged to carefully review the guidelines to be certain that they are familiar with all requirements.

• Sabbatical Guidelines(PDF)
• Senior sabbatical application format(doc)
• Departmental Coverage Form (doc)

Submit Sabbatical Application>>
PDF preferred

Submit Departmental Letter of Support Form>>
The departmental letter must be submitted by the application deadline. 
The letter may be submitted by the chair or via the application form (above) by the faculty member. 

Submit Departmental Coverage Form>>
The coverage form may be submitted by the chair or via the application form (above) by the faculty member.

Submit your Senior Sabbatical Activities report >>
A report on Sabbatical Activities that includes appropriate materials (such as drafts of articles or manuscripts submitted for publication) is due 30 days after the start of the semester in which the faculty member returns to full-time teaching. The report should be submitted here as well as sent to your Dean and Department Chair.

If you have questions, please contact orsp@loyola.edu or 410-617-2188.