we just got the official word that the new parent leave policy is officially being extended to all full time non tenure line faculty. i am honestly blown away that we got this done together. thank you for everyone who stayed on me about this and kept the pressure up …
December 6, 2018
Final supporters
Petition to the President and the Provost of Georgetown University
for FTNTL Inclusion in Georgetown University’s Main Campus Faculty
New Parent Leave Policy
Date: October 2, 2018
We the undersigned petition the President and the Provost of Georgetown University to extend the new parent leave policy available to tenure-line (TL) faculty on the Main Campus to all full-time non-tenure line faculty (FTNTL) on that campus. We consider this issue of great urgency and one that touches on both faculty and gender equity. We respectfully ask that a positive decision be made in the fall of 2018.
Background:
Georgetown University currently has two separate New Parent Leave policies for its Main Campus faculty.
Per Georgetown’s Benefits webpage: “a tenure-line Main Campus faculty member who will be the primary caregiver of a child (who is in the first year of life or newly homed child of five or younger) is eligible for one semester of paid leave.” This policy extends to both men and women and covers adoption as well.
The above policy does not apply to Georgetown’s roughly three-hundred FTNTL faculty, however. Instead, FTNTL faculty requests for new parent leave are solely addressed through the use of short-term disability benefits which are available for the birth mother only. This policy fails to explicitly address instances of adoption as well as men seeking leave to care for a new child.
As such, the university’s current separate policies draw an unnecessary distinction between tenure-line and FTNTL faculty who often work closely together in a given department or unit. Such a distinction negatively impacts any FTNTL faculty trying to have a child and creates unnecessary administrative and instructional interruptions at the departmental level.
Adding the FTNTL faculty to the tenure-line policy would streamline the process through which all faculty request new parent leave and simplify a department’s responsibility to cover a FTNTL member’s duties during their paid semester of leave. FTNTL inclusion in the tenure-line policy will also prevent students enrolled in one of our courses from having to adjust suddenly to a temporary replacement.
Said inclusion will have no impact on Georgetown’s Main Campus tenure-line faculty. It will simply extend the already existing policy for tenure-line faculty to FTNTL colleagues.
To show my support of FTNTL inclusion in the tenure-line Main Campus New Parent Leave Policy, I am adding my name to this petition.
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
October 5, 2018
87 Comments
Supporting FTNTL faculty with young children is in the spirit of cura personalis. I do not see any good reason for excluding FTNTLs who have been at Georgetown for more than a year or are on multiyear contracts, and are thus integral to the university.
As a tenure-line faculty member who had to petition to receive family leave benefits for adopting a child in 1999, and more generally as a feminist, I strongly support this petition extending parental leave to FTNTLs. Pamela Fox
Nearly thirteen years ago, with the help of Kathryn Temple and Jim Slevin, I cobbled together 5 weeks of leave to recover from a C-section and care for my newborn daughter. This initiative is critical. I strongly support.
It is difficult to consider a FTNTL position a professional career without parental leave. If you want the FTNTL to be committed members of the university, rather than a pass through job, you need to provide the benefits that will allow them to stay.
As a pregnant NTL faculty member, Georgetown's disparate parental leave policies between FTNTL and TL faculty impacts me directly. I stand by this petition 100%.
I fully support this initiative.
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we just got the official word that the new parent leave policy is officially being extended to all full time non tenure line faculty. i am honestly blown away that we got this done together. thank you for everyone who stayed on me about this and kept the pressure up …
December 6, 2018
Final supporters
Petition to the President and the Provost of Georgetown University
for FTNTL Inclusion in Georgetown University’s Main Campus Faculty
New Parent Leave Policy
Date: October 2, 2018
We the undersigned petition the President and the Provost of Georgetown University to extend the new parent leave policy available to tenure-line (TL) faculty on the Main Campus to all full-time non-tenure line faculty (FTNTL) on that campus. We consider this issue of great urgency and one that touches on both faculty and gender equity. We respectfully ask that a positive decision be made in the fall of 2018.
Background:
Georgetown University currently has two separate New Parent Leave policies for its Main Campus faculty.
Per Georgetown’s Benefits webpage: “a tenure-line Main Campus faculty member who will be the primary caregiver of a child (who is in the first year of life or newly homed child of five or younger) is eligible for one semester of paid leave.” This policy extends to both men and women and covers adoption as well.
The above policy does not apply to Georgetown’s roughly three-hundred FTNTL faculty, however. Instead, FTNTL faculty requests for new parent leave are solely addressed through the use of short-term disability benefits which are available for the birth mother only. This policy fails to explicitly address instances of adoption as well as men seeking leave to care for a new child.
As such, the university’s current separate policies draw an unnecessary distinction between tenure-line and FTNTL faculty who often work closely together in a given department or unit. Such a distinction negatively impacts any FTNTL faculty trying to have a child and creates unnecessary administrative and instructional interruptions at the departmental level.
Adding the FTNTL faculty to the tenure-line policy would streamline the process through which all faculty request new parent leave and simplify a department’s responsibility to cover a FTNTL member’s duties during their paid semester of leave. FTNTL inclusion in the tenure-line policy will also prevent students enrolled in one of our courses from having to adjust suddenly to a temporary replacement.
Said inclusion will have no impact on Georgetown’s Main Campus tenure-line faculty. It will simply extend the already existing policy for tenure-line faculty to FTNTL colleagues.
To show my support of FTNTL inclusion in the tenure-line Main Campus New Parent Leave Policy, I am adding my name to this petition.
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
October 5, 2018
87 Comments
Very important that Georgetown implements this as soon as possible. I happen to be teaching Catholic Social Thought this term and special support for parents of small children is a significant component of “The Common Good.”
Supporting FTNTL faculty with young children is in the spirit of cura personalis. I do not see any good reason for excluding FTNTLs who have been at Georgetown for more than a year or are on multiyear contracts, and are thus integral to the university.
As a tenure-line faculty member who had to petition to receive family leave benefits for adopting a child in 1999, and more generally as a feminist, I strongly support this petition extending parental leave to FTNTLs. Pamela Fox
Nearly thirteen years ago, with the help of Kathryn Temple and Jim Slevin, I cobbled together 5 weeks of leave to recover from a C-section and care for my newborn daughter. This initiative is critical. I strongly support.
It is difficult to consider a FTNTL position a professional career without parental leave. If you want the FTNTL to be committed members of the university, rather than a pass through job, you need to provide the benefits that will allow them to stay.
As a pregnant NTL faculty member, Georgetown's disparate parental leave policies between FTNTL and TL faculty impacts me directly. I stand by this petition 100%.
I fully support this initiative.
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Very important that Georgetown implements this as soon as possible. I happen to be teaching Catholic Social Thought this term and special support for parents of small children is a significant component of “The Common Good.”