Editor's Note: This is the final installment of a two-part series on College professors' sabbaticals. When Dartmouth professors become eligible to take a paid sabbatical from teaching, they receive support through various on-campus avenues, according to religion professor Susan Ackerman.
Editor's note: This is the first installation of a two-part series on College professors' sabbaticals. While the D-Plan allows undergraduate students to leave the College to explore new opportunities throughout the year, Dartmouth professors can similarly take time off to conduct research, rejuvenate after long terms of teaching and meet new academic experts outside of the Upper Valley community as part of the College's sabbatical program. For Dartmouth professors who are just "students with gray hair," the sabbatical experience is "tremendously exciting, fulfilling and enriching," according to religion professor Susan Ackerman. "Sometimes professors become professors because they could never get over being students," Ackerman said.