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                           %SABBATICAL YEAR RENEWAL 731202

     Professors  are  sometimes granted  leaves  with  pay
about every seven years so that they may take time out for
self-renewal.  It is recognized that in the press of daily
duties  there is inadequate time to maintain  professional
skills   and   keep  up  with  developments  relevant   to
instructional duties.

     In  the  sciences  there  is  often  a  tendency  for
professors  from  liberal arts colleges to return  to  the
university  setting during sabbatical year programs.   The
intent  is to renew the technical skills and knowledge  of
current  developments which play no role in  undergraduate
instruction  in liberal arts colleges.   Even though  such
activities   are   valued  highly  by  the  liberal   arts
professor, there is inadequate time to engage in them,  so
such  activities  often constitute the dominant  focus  of
sabbatical year programs.

     It  is tragic that professors have yet to develop  an
adequate  way of maintaining the tension between  interest
in  research  and  interest in real  students.    In  many
instances  the tension is relaxed through the  development
of  subjective  convictions and collusions to  the  effect
that  the focus of research deserves more concern than  do
real students.  One of the ways this tension is relaxed is
through  the  graduate school programs which train  future
college  professors.    The vast majority of the  time  is
spent on the specialized content-matter of the department.
Very  little  time  is  spent  generating  a  concern  for
communicating  effectively through dialogue and  authentic
meetings.  Thus the newly trained college instructor has a
dominant focus upon subject matter rather than upon honest
dialogue with real students.

     By  the time a sabbatical year comes,  the instructor
may  have started to modify value judgments  in  favor  of
honest  dialogue  with real students.  However,   in  many
instances  the sabbatical year is spent in a high  powered
research   setting   which  renews  the   old   state   of
consciousness  and  the value structure which leaves  real
students  second best.  Those who support sabbatical  year
activities of college professors would do well to meditate
upon this reality of life as it touches real students.

     Sabbatical  years should be occasions  of  liberation
from out-of-date value judgments rather than occasions for
re-indoctrination in them.

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