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A member of the
University of Massachusetts community, I
maintain a professional home page: >>
Joe Kunkel's Home Page << at our Biology Department WWW site.
I also maintain a teaching home page: >>
Joe Kunkel's Teaching Page << at our Biological Computer Resource Center.
You will find more detailed descriptions there of my
professional biological interests and projects.
At this site I am more interested in sharing an insight into what one
professor's
private life is like. Here I feature a few ideas and images of the three
sabbaticals which I have taken with my family in my past 30 years on
the faculty here. These sabbaticals are meant to recharge the batteries
of faculty who take advantage of that great institution, THE SABBATICAL.
I am particularly interested in sharing this information due to the
distressing trend in the past years of faculty forgoing their right to
spend a year away from campus. This trend makes us a smaller university
every time it is extended, for whatever reason. I hope to assuage the
young faculty's fears that planning a sabbatical can often inspire with
tales from my own experiences. This historical right, falling into
disuse, is an example of
the wise saying "use it or lose it!". Of particular note should be
a link below to the U. Wisconsin faculty who have made a statement on how they view the
sabbatical process and how it should be awarded, evaluated and considered.
Acknowledgements: I give homage to my partner of 38 years, Gerda Kunkel, who has played a large part in the sabbaticals as well as the years in between. My sons, Peter and David, endured (and enjoyed?) the first two sabbaticals, ripped from their familiar Amherst surroundings and planted in strange places.
