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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 2025-2026 academic year.

Fall 2025

• Isidro Bosch, Biology, Completion of Manuscripts and Field/Lab Study of Sea Star Larvae
• Samuel Fallon, English and Creative Writing, One of a Kind: Character and Abstraction from Spenser to Milton
• Colleen Garrity, Geological, Environmental, & Planetary Sciences, Finger Lakes Terroir Project
• Sedar Ngoma, Mathematics, Python Programming book and an inverse source problem
• Paul Schacht, English & Creative Writing, Encoding and Visualizing Revision Narratives for Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"

Spring 2026

• Ming Lei, Communication, Are your emotions helping you or not? - Well, a good question in general, but the context here is health communication
• William Lofquist, Sociology, To and From Bellefonte: An Innocent Man, an Unsolved Murder, and the Man in the Shadows
• Ruel McKnight, Chemistry & Biochemistry, NSF Grant Proposals for Research Instrumentation, Course Advancement Autonomy & Submission of Manuscripts for Publication
• Caroline Woidat, English and Center for Social Justice Studies, Recovering American Women's Anti-Prison Literature
• Thea Yurkewecz-Stellato, School of Education, Specialized Literacy Professionals' Use of Research Evidence in Western New York

Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave

The 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 2025

• Bruno Renero-Hannan, Anthropology
• Tara Sweet, Biology / Psychology & Neuroscience

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 a 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award:

Fall 2025

• Intekhab (Ian) Alam, School of Business, College of Economics and Political Science at Sultan Qaboos University on the capital city of Muscat, Oman