Since I am neither a faculty member nor going to be needing maternity leave, I
cannot speak from personal experience, but I believe when my best friend needed
it last year here at UNM, she got about 8 weeks worth. I think it worked out
that she had to use a few sick days toward the end of the semester, but only
because her baby was 5 weeks premature, so the original arrangement had to be
altered to cover the last week of school. She is in the School of Fine Arts, so
I don't know if that was a University thing or departmental. But I know that
she was paid.
Congratulations!
Linnea
"Fisher, Roxanne" wrote:
> Dear Women-in-bio folks:
>> Has anyone out there in academia gotten paid maternity leave? I'm talking
> about 6 weeks or so. I had no problem getting approval for maternity leave.
> I'm due 10/10 and have leave through the end of the fall semester, I'll
> start teaching again January 29th. An adjunct will finish my courses for
> me. The human resources people say they're "researching " whether I can get
> paid or not. Staff get paid maternity leave by using their sick and
> vacation time, but I don't get sick and vacation time since my appointment
> is as a 9 month faculty member. One faculty member had a baby last year,
> but she had her daughter 1 week before the semester ended. Chatham is so
> small that apparently no other faculty have had babies during the school
> year or at least haven't for quite a long time. I'd be interested to hear
> how maternity leave is handled for faculty at other colleges and
> universities.
>> Thanks!
>> Roxanne
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