Modified Teaching Duties
for Faculty Members with a New Child
The
University’s sick leave policy provides employees with a paid leave plan for
disability due to pregnancy and related medical conditions, childbirth or
adoption. However, the difficulties
involved when a faculty member is responsible for semester-long teaching
responsibilities during a sick leave period may effectively preclude its full
utilization. To enable a faculty member
to recover fully from the effects of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical
conditions or to enable the primary caregiver of a new child to spend more time
with the child immediately after birth or adoption, except in extraordinary
circumstances, upon request tenured and tenure track faculty members will be
granted a period of modified duties without a reduction in salary. Faculty members on modified duties status
will be relieved of teaching but will be expected to fulfill their other
professional responsibilities that can be scheduled around the recuperation/bonding
period (e.g., preparation of research proposals, papers, and course materials;
supervision of graduate student research).
The maximum period for which modified duties will be assigned is one
semester.
The
department shall be responsible for arranging for coverage of direct teaching
responsibilities for the period of modified duties.
Procedures
A
faculty member who wishes to request modified duties status should contact her
or his department head. Informing the
department head as early as possible will allow time to identify alternate
staff to teach the affected courses. All
requests for modified duties status should be submitted in writing to the
department head who will approve the request and
forward it to the dean of the college.
After approval by the dean, copies should be sent to the faculty member,
the department head, and Academic Human Resources.
Further
questions concerning this policy should be directed to the Office of Academic
Human Resources, 333-6747.
Date Issued:
Approved By: Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs
Personnel Policies, Section IX/C – 45