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Sabbaticals for Dummies by: Malcolm A. Kline, January 16, 2008 Those of us who have long been curious about what professors do on sabbatical could glean one sort of an answer from Oregon Univrsity English professor Edwin Battistella’s tongue-in-cheek (we think) listing of “Twenty-Five things to do on sabbatical” that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of The Montana Professor. Although Battistella was obviously in a whimsical frame of mind when he constructed the “to do” list, the suggestions look all too credible to some of us on the higher education beat. Some of us always thought that the answer...