{"id":383,"date":"2008-08-23T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-08-23T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:53:48","slug":"sabbatical-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/sabbatical-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbatical Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have asked what I am doing on my sabbatical (officially &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/policies\/academic\/a31-06.htm\">study leave<\/a>&#8220;).  I guess I should say a little more.  According to the University,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe purpose of study leave for Lecturers&hellip; is to provide a period of time during which the individual is relieved of his\/her employment duties in order to complete a project or course of study which will enhance his\/her work at the University in the future. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds good.  What I officially proposed to do to make the world a better place is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about programming language design and implementation, so I can teach CMPT 383 (Comparative Programming Languages) and possibly CMPT 379 (Principles of Compiler Design) in the future.  This is something I have always been interested in, but one of the gaps left by not doing a full undergrad in CS.  (I was mostly math.)<\/li>\n<li>Revise the distance ed version of CMPT 165 (Intro to the Internet and WWW).  The old version is a little crufty and has been shoved into a &#8220;breadth course&#8221; role that it wasn&#8217;t intended for.<\/li>\n<li>Finish the distance ed version of CMPT 120 (Intro to CS and Programming).  That has been almost done for a couple of years, and needs to be polished off.<\/li>\n<li>Get back to the biological modeling stuff that has been shoved to the side of my desk for two years while I have been undergrad director.<\/li>\n<li>Continue to participate in the School&#8217;s recruitment and outreach activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the unofficial stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To get to the &#8220;more about programming languages&#8221; stuff (and because it will be interesting), I intend to <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/programming-language-study-group\/\">learn a programming language a month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m trying to convince Amanda that she needs a CMPT faculty member to do international recruiting and partnership stuff.  (Her new title is &#8220;Manager of International Recruiting and Partnerships&#8221;.)  Basically, I don&#8217;t care where she needs me to go: I&#8217;m willing to literally go to the ends of the earth for the University&hellip; as long as the University foots the bill and I can take a few extra days to tourist-it-up.<\/li>\n<li>A few <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/gaming\/\">games may be played<\/a>, particularly for the first two weeks.  I haven&#8217;t taken more than a few days off (to go to North Carolina) for about 20 months.  I&#8217;m not going to feel even the slightest bit bad about a couple of weeks of god-game addiction.\n<\/li>\n<li>I probably should figure out what I want to be when I grow up.  In particular, does that involve getting a PhD, or climbing some administrative ladder, or some other career entirely? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have asked what I am doing on my sabbatical (officially &#8220;study leave&#8220;). I guess I should say a little more. 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