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Childbearing and Childrearing Leaves
It is the policy of the University that a full-time faculty member with one year of University service may choose one of the following options for childbearing and/or childrearing:
1) Childbearing leave for female faculty.
Six to eight weeks childbearing leave using short term disability (thirty days full pay followed by [...]
The proposed policy for faculty is based on several principles:
Provides time to parents of newborn or newly adopted children when they most needed it – at the time the child arrives. The policy would apply to any male [...]
During the 2006-07 academic year Provost Cunningham realized that Illinois Wesleyan University did not have any written leave policy for faculty members who have children or adopt children. Various faculty members expressed concern to the Provost that each individual faculty member had to negotiate the terms of their leave with the Provost. Until [...]