UW-Madison art history Professor Julia Murray will spend the next school year writing a book about a once-important, now-destroyed shrine to Confucius near Shanghai – tracing its evolution, components, activities and significance from the 12th to 20th centuries. She will also develop a course on shrines in China.
….All in all, 290 faculty members throughout the University of Wisconsin System will take sabbatical leaves during the 2007-08 academic year – 144 for one semester and 146 for both semesters. But are some of the subjects of study too esoteric to provide value in the “real world”?