Following revision, you will receive another email notice about the request. If the application seems fine as it is, simply indicate your approval by checking the appropriate radio button next to your name and the date. Click the "submit" button, and both the department chair and the faculty member will be notified of your approval, as will the Faculty Affairs Office.
The University's Paid Parental Leave policy is intended to support faculty as they balance professional and family duties before and after the birth or adoption of a child. Several measures are available:. To apply for paid parental leave, you must complete the Faculty Parental Leave Request form, at least two months in advance of your expected leave.
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Parental leave is charged to your accrued annual, creditable sick and personal leave. Instructional faculty will also rely on collegial leave, once their accrued leave is exhausted. The University will supplement the balance, as needed, to ensure up to eight weeks of paid leave. Parental leave is charged concurrently toward Family Medical Leave. You may also request a modification of work duties without a reduction of salary during the same semester you are on Parental Leave.
The Plan should be developed in collaboration with your chair and dean, and might include elements such as:. A Modified Duty Family Support Plan may be available from six months prior to 12 months following the birth or placement of your child for adoption or foster care. If your spouse is also a faculty member at the University, Modified Duty Family Support and Paid Parental Leave are available to both of you, on a sequential basis, provided that the faculty member on leave is the child's primary caregiver during the period of the leave or modified duty.
You are also entitled to two automatic extensions of time before your mandatory tenure review.
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Click here for more information. Parental Leave is a policy intended to support faculty in balancing professional and family demands before and after birth, adoption, or foster care placement. The intent is to foster a family friendly environment. Also, the faculty member must have been employed by the institution for at least six months. The FTE of an appointment is calculated differently from one department to the next, so check with the business manager of your department to verify your FTE.
This leave can be used for the birth of a newborn or the placement of a child under the age of six for adoption or foster care. Your leave must begin and end on a weekday. If you are a full-time faculty member, a total period of eight work weeks of paid parental leave will be assured, as follows: Parental Leave will be charged to your applicable accrued annual, sick, personal or collegial leave. The institution will supplement with additional paid leave days to attain an eight week period of paid parental leave.
If you are a part-time faculty member, you are eligible for a period of Parental Leave that is pro-rated according to your FTE. During the period of your leave, you will receive your normal pay. For full-time or part-time faculty, if a holiday occurs during the period of your Parental Leave, you or your department will not be charged for that day, but the holiday does not extend the eight-week period. The intent of the Parental Leave policy is that it must be taken continuously. Even if you are a part-time faculty member working only a few days a week, your Parental Leave period will be eight continuous weeks.
If both parents are employed as faculty members at the same institution, they both may be eligible for paid parental leave up to eight weeks maximum, as follows: Both parents may use accrued annual, sick, personal, or collegial leave concurrently with the birth of the child or placement of a child under the age of six for adoption or foster care. A faculty parent may use additional guaranteed paid leave only if he or she is acting as primary caregiver. Each faculty parent may be eligible for paid parental leave once in a given month period, and on two occasions during the duration of the faculty member's employment in the University System of Maryland.
Additional requests for paid parental leave would require the approval of the President, or the President's designee. A request form and instructions are available from the Faculty Affairs website. Notice should include the projected date of birth of the child or expected date of the child's placement through adoption or foster care, as feasible. I am unable to work due to health complications from my pregnancy. So, after Paid Parental Leave is exhausted, you will be eligible for up to four additional weeks of unpaid Family and Medical Leave.
That means when you take Paid Parental Leave, you are also depleting your available Family Medical Leave 60 days per calendar year for the same number of days. Further, Family Medical Leave is adjusted automatically. If you will need to take both Paid Parental Leave and Family Medical Leave, your Family Medical Leave request should indicate a leave period beginning just after your Paid Parental Leave ends, and the request must be for no more than twenty days. Choose any available leave from the dropdown list when you complete your timesheet. Paid Parental Leave should be visible on the dropdown list, but it will not be enabled until you have exhausted all your other leave.
At that point, you will be able to choose Paid Parental Leave as your leave type for the remainder of the leave period. There was a snow day during my paid parental leave period. Will this extend the period of my leave? Employees who were scheduled for approved annual leave, sick leave, personal leave, compensatory leave, or approved leave without pay during the period of closure are considered "in a prior leave status" under applicable policy, and as such, do not receive administrative leave for the snow day or other university closure.
Modified duty family support is an option that allows faculty eligible for Parental Leave to request time during which their duties are reduced or modified without a reduction in salary. Modified Duty Family Support is only available to faculty in conjunction with Paid Parental Leave; you cannot use a modified duty family support plan by itself. The combined period of Paid Parental Leave and the Modified Duty must be concluded within twelve months of the birth or placement of the child for adoption or foster care.
Faculty with instructional responsibilities are entitled to a release from classroom teaching duties and service responsibilities during the semester in which parental leave and the modified duty family support plan are used.
How does a modified duty plan work for non-instructional faculty i. Research faculty are entitled to Modified Duty for a period of up to six weeks in addition to the eight weeks of paid parental leave. My spouse or partner is also a faculty member. Can we each have a modified duty plan?
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Both faculty parents make take modified duty, on a sequential basis. Both faculty parents are expected to coordinate leave arrangements so that the combined period of Paid Parental Leave and the Modified Duty Family Support Plan is not exceeded. What should I do to arrange for lactation facilities? There are none available in my building. Contact your department head or administrator to be sure that he or she is aware of the policy and its requirements regarding lactation space.
The following instructions are based on the University's Policy on Professional Leave for Librarians. Faculty on professional or sabbatical leave continue to have the same benefits coverage. They also continue to accrue annual leave and sick leave at either full rate if receiving full pay or half rate if receiving half pay. Our online sabbatical leave system is designed to facilitate sabbatical leave applications. We require that faculty members initiate a sabbatical leave request and that administrators approve the request through our online system.
Faculty who plan on engaging in activities that provide remuneration e. Faculty who are not yet tenured, but who expect promotion to tenured rank within the next six months, must complete the Contingent Sabbatical Leave Request form, rather than using the online application. The completed form and requisite supporting documentation most current CV and brief summary of planned sabbatical project must be emailed as a searchable PDF to Faculty Affairs After the Contingent Sabbatical Request has been received by the Office of Faculty Affairs, the chair will receive an email request for appraisal of the project.
After logging in with the link below, you will see a form that has been pre-populated with information about your college and department. If there are any errors in this information, you should contact Faculty Affairs or your department administrators. Enter the required dates or indicate the appropriate semester for your leave, and then paste your project summary in the summary text box.
If you are requesting an academic or calendar year sabbatical, please first confer with your unit's budget or payroll officer to find out how your sabbatical request may affect your benefits. Also note that you must request your sabbatical leave at least six months in advance.
Faculty are required to attest that they will abide by the requirements of the sabbatical policy. This includes attesting to:. Use the browse button below the project summary to upload your CV file. Check the box labeled "I attest," which will indicate your acceptance of the University sabbatical leave policy, and then click the button labeled "Attest and Submit" to submit your application. After you have submitted the application, notification of your request will be emailed to your department chair and his or her designee if one has been named.
You can check the status of your application by logging in to the system a second time. Logging in a second time will also give you the opportunity to update or cancel your application. You will also need to return to the system to upload your sabbatical report. If you should need to cancel or update your sabbatical application, you may do so at any time until the sabbatical has received full campus approval. Following campus approval, you must email your request to cancel or update, with a full explanation of the circumstances, to the Office of Faculty Affairs.
Faculty members are required to submit a sabbatical report within three calendar months 90 days of the completion of their sabbatical. Click here for the sabbatical report template. When your sabbatical report is ready to be submitted, use the button below to log in to the system. You will then see a menu that includes a link for uploading the report, which must be a PDF file. Once you have uploaded the report, it will be automatically forwarded to the relevant parties, including your department chair and the Faculty Affairs office. If it should be the case that you are taking a semester-long sabbatical first, and then a semester for RASA-funded work, you will need to prepare two reports.
Your sabbatical report, potentially a brief interim report of progress on your project, will be due before the end of your RASA-funded semester. Failure to provide your report within the required time frame: When a faculty member applies for sabbatical leave, you will receive an email notification of the request.
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After you have logged in, you will see a list of sabbatical requests with status indicators. In addition, if appropriate to your position, you will see a link to request your own sabbatical.
Clicking the "view" link next to a faculty member's name will display the information in his or her application, including the project summary. If you feel the project needs revision before you can approve it, you can enter your comments in the text box labeled "Request Changes in the Proposal," and then click the "Return" button. Following his or her revision, you will receive another email notice about the application. If the faculty member's application seems fine as it is, there are spaces on the form below for you to appraise the project, as well as to comment on how it conforms to the University's mission and how the faculty member's workload will be covered.
Finally, your name and the date appear, along with an attestation regarding the University's sabbatical leave policy, and radio button choices labeled "I approve" and "I disapprove. Sabbatical reports are linked at the bottom of each faculty member's sabbatical request. To view the sabbatical report submitted by a faculty member, "View" next to the faculty member's name on your sabbatical listing and scroll to the bottom of the request to see the report link.
If you feel the project needs revision before you can approve it, you can enter comments in the text box labeled "Request changes in the proposal," and then click the "Return" button. Following revision, you will receive another email notice about the application. Faculty Leave Information For information about expectations of faculty, including attendance, please click here.
Department of Labor form note that in some browsers, you may need to download this form before you can fill it out; to download, right-click the link and choose "Save link as" or the equivalent on your browser menu ; in the case of the faculty member's need to care for a seriously ill family member, certification of the necessity for and duration of the faculty member's presence, using the appropriate U. Department of Labor form see the note above about downloading the form before you fill it out ; the title and original signature of an accredited, licensed or certified medical provider.
When the need for Family and Medical Leave is foreseeable, the application should be made at least thirty 30 calendar days before the leave is to begin. These materials should be submitted through the Department Chair to the Dean. The original material will be kept in the Office of the Provost. Birth of the faculty member's child. Placement of a child with the faculty member for adoption or foster care. Need to care for the faculty member's child within a twelve 12 month period from birth or placement.
Need to care for the faculty member's immediate family member who has a serious health condition. Serious health condition of the faculty member. There are a few ways you can take Leave Without Pay: Partial Leave allows you to reduce the amount of your service and still receive compensation, pro-rated by your percent FTE. Jump over the College navigation bar. Jump over the site's masthead's navigation bar. Jump over the site's section navigation.
The President of the University approves the recommendations that academic employee members be granted sabbatical leaves subject to the following conditions: Sabbatical leaves to be granted each year shall be limited to one out of every twenty-five full-time academic employee members or major fraction thereof. No individual may receive a sabbatical leave until he or she has completed five or more years of full-time service on the academic staff at the institution.
No person shall receive a leave more often than once in seven years. The timing and period of the sabbatical leave shall be left to the discretion of the President, provided, however, that: The total leave period may not exceed nine months. The total leave compensation may not exceed the equivalent of four and one-half months' pay at the salary rate in effect during the leave period. At no time shall the rate of leave compensation exceed the monthly contract salary rate in effect during the leave period.
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When an individual receives a grant such as a Fulbright grant, that person may be granted sabbatical leave with pay, and may accept the grant, provided the amount of such grant allocated to salary plus the amount of the salary on leave does not exceed the normal salary for the period of sabbatical. The proposal shall contain the following: A description of the proposed leave, including: The significance of the proposal to University, College, and programmatic goals address specific goals.
The contribution of the outcome of the leave to the professional stature of the University. Priority Categories Priority Categories in Order of Importance depending upon the faculty member's University assignment, the first priority criterion would ordinarily be either item 1 or 2 below.
A project designed to enhance performance in teaching. A project which will result in scholarly or artistic productivity. A project designed to enhance performance in other major University activities such as professional service or administration. A project supplemented by an external professional grant leading toward improving professional performance will be given special consideration for items 1, 2, and 3 above. A proposal for completion of an advanced degree. A proposal for completion of course requirements toward an advanced degree. A proposal principally involving travel directly related to the faculty member's University assignment proposed project for professional improvement.