Sample Proposals & Reports
This list of approved proposals can be used as reference, as inspiration, or as models when submitting proposals for sabbatical leave. The completed reports below provide a window not only into an array of projects and approaches but also representative examples of how reports can be written. Please see also examples of work that has grown from faculty members’ sabbaticals.
Both Proposals and Reports represent a variety of disciplines, such as English, Geology, History, Math, Philosophy, Sociology, and Visual & Performing Arts.
Sample Proposals
Sample Proposals from 2025–2026
  Sample Proposal - Allison Pop
  Sample Proposal - Ann Mitchell
  Sample Proposal - Carlos Ramos
  Sample Proposal - David Lehman
  Sample Proposal - Douglas Britton
  Sample Proposal - Elizabeth Orr
  Sample Proposal - Julian DelGaudio
  
  Sample Proposal - Laura Wheeler
  Sample Proposal - Matt Lawrence
  Sample Proposal - Stephanie Powell
  Sample Proposal - Steven Wallech
Sample Reports
  Sample Report - David Lehman
  Sample Report - Matt lawrence
  Sample Report - Kirsten Moreno
  Sample Report - Nancy Mahan
  Sample Report - Jesse Nason
  Sample Report - Mary Marki
  Sample Report - Carolyn_Castano
Article on Professor Carolyn Castaño’s Guggenheim Fellowship, which grew from her sabbatical: Long Beach City College Professor Receives Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Article by Professor Sean Dinces, part of his sabbatical work: The “Spirit of Revolt”: A Reappraisal of Black Veterans in Chicago’s Red Summer,” by Sean Dinces and Christopher Lamberti