Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
Interim Policy
on Parental Accommodations for Faculty Not in the Collective
Bargaining Unit
Approved
by the Faculty Senate June 4, 2007 and the Provost June 11,
2007.
This
policy applies to all fully affiliated faculty members who
are new parents and who are not represented by collective
bargaining: lecturers, clinical assistant professors, clinical
instructors, and instructors. Faculty members from the SOPP
and the SOM are excluded.
Wright
State University agrees to the following accommodations for
faculty who are new parents. These provisions are effective
immediately.
I.
Parental
Teaching Relief
Parental
Teaching Relief is intended to provide a birth or adoptive
parent with additional time to care for a newborn or newly-adopted
child under the age of six. Eligible faculty may choose
to take either one full quarter with no teaching responsibilities
or two quarters with 50% of their customary teaching load
without loss of pay. Teaching relief quarters must
be started within one year of the birth or adoption.
A.
Eligibility
The
faculty member must, during the teaching relief quarter(s),
be the primary caretaker of his or her newborn or newly adopted
child under six for at least 25 hours per week, from Monday
through Friday, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.
B.
Application
1.
Parental Teaching Relief will be granted if requested by a
faculty member who meets the requirements for eligibility.
2.
Requests must be submitted to the Provost as much in advance
as is reasonably possible.
3.
Requests must include a signed statement that the individual
will satisfy the requirement for eligibility, as defined above.
II.
Annual
Evaluation of New Parents
All
faculty members who have a newly born or adopted child under
the age of six may, upon request, receive the average evaluation
score in their department for annual evaluation in the year
in which the child was born or adopted, or in one of the following
two years. Thus, a faculty member with a child born
or adopted in 2007 has the option of receiving an average
evaluation score for 2007, 2008, or 2009. The request
must be made no later than December 31 of the year for which
the average evaluation score is requested.
III.
Class
Scheduling
When
preparing teaching schedules and other assignments, department
chairs and deans are encouraged to consider the child care
responsibilities of faculty members with children under the
age of six. The faculty member's schedule requests
will be considered but cannot be guaranteed, and reasonable
adjustments to accommodate parenting responsibilities shall
not be construed as preferential treatment of those individuals.
IV.
Support
for Ongoing Professional Commitments
Faculty
members may apply to their dean for support to maintain their
laboratory operations or other ongoing professional commitments
during the year following the birth or adoption of a child
under six.
V.
Other
Support
In
addition to the provisions described above, faculty members
may receive other types of assistance: sick leave in line
with the FMLA and/or unpaid child care leave.
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