Sabbatical Leave to Provide Additional Qualifications. Up to two additional sabbaticals beyond the five percent may be available each year designed to provide additional qualifications to teach in a different discipline: for full-time tenured teaching educators with at least 10 years of continuing full-time teaching experience at Dutchess or permission of the Xxxx of Academic Affairs, not eligible for sabbaticals under the regular process, unable to be assigned a full teaching load, and facing the prospect of termination. Application for such a sabbatical must be with permission of the President and must be in a field in which there is an institutional teaching need.