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Resolution on Parental Leave
The University desires to assist faculty members with their desire to balance professional obligations with parental responsibilities. Accordingly, it has chosen to make "parental leave" with full salary and benefits available, under the conditions set forth below, to those full-time faculty members who can certify that they serve as primary care-givers for one or more of their children below the age of five years. Leave may also be available to primary care givers with any dependent children over the age of five who suffer from a serious illness or other condition that creates extraordinary parenting demands. For purposes of this leave, a "primary care-giver" is an individual who has primary child-rearing responsibility for his or her child. It is not intended to extend to a parent whose child is primarily in the care of a spouse or other care-giver. A
faculty member with teaching responsibilities who is otherwise eligible
for parental leave benefits may request relief from those responsibilities
for up to one full teaching load during any single term, or for up to
one-half load during two terms. The faculty member will be expected to
remain in residence and to continue departmental service and advising,
as well as scholarly activities during the affected term(s). Leave under
these circumstances will customarily be compensated at full pay. A faculty member with no teaching responsibilities who is otherwise eligible for parental leave benefits may request relief from some or his or her duties for a continuous period not to exceed two terms. The dean of the school or college within which the faculty member is employed will consider making such reasonable relief available as would be comparable to the relief from teaching described in the paragraph above. Such leave may, at the dean's discretion, be compensated at full pay. Under some circumstances, a faculty member may take an additional semester of parental leave at a reduced level of compensation. These circumstances are to be approved by the cognizant dean. Any faculty member desiring parental leave is advised to submit, with as much advance notice as possible, a written request to his or her dean with a copy to the department chair. The request should affirm that the faculty member is a primary care-giver for a child below the age of five years. Parental leave ma also qualify as leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ("FMLA"), in which case it would count against the eligible faculty member's annual 12-week FMLA entitlement. Approved
October 2000 |