摘要：AbstractChanges in expectations about the quality of higher education have dramatically increased the need for effectiveness and creative faculty development programs. Improving faculty as an institutional process is, trying to reform knowledge, skills and attitudes of faculty toward the usability and performance to revitalizing, rebuilding and recreating the structure and contents. In this study, has been presented a conceptual framework for effectiveness of sabbatical leave in Islamic Azad University of Iran to providing and supporting professional development and empowerment of faculty by three major factors were defined, namely: organizational, proffesional development and individual factors.
