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• Source: Detroit News
• Date: March 12, 2006
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• Bylines: Paul Egan
• Topics: Education
• Data Types: State Data , FOIA
• Description/Excerpt: At Michigan's 13 public universities, 558 full-time faculty members received paid sabbaticals in 2004-05, a Detroit News analysis found. That's about 4.4 percent of full-time instructors. The $23.2 million cost -- calculated using sabbatical and pay records The News obtained under Michigan's Freedom of Information Act -- represents only the salaries paid to professors while they were away from their jobs. When health insurance and other benefits are included, the cost of the sabbaticals increases to about $31 million.