Hunter College Program and Policies

Child Care - Student Service
http://studentservices.hunter.cuny.edu/ccare3.htm

The Child Care Center, staffed by professional teachers, offers an enriched early childhood program for children 2.5 to 6 years old.  Parents must be matriculated students who are attending classes or work-study programs at Hunter.

Employee Assistance
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/~eap/Links/links.html

The Hunter College EAP, a family-focused professional social service, offers individual, group, and family counseling, education, information, and referral.

Faculty/Maternity Leave (Faculty Handbook)
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/handbook2003-04/3-Leaves.html

A special leave, without pay, shall be granted to members of the instructional staff for the purpose of caring for a newborn infant, provided the applicant has legal responsibility for the care and/or support of the child. Duration of the leave shall ordinarily be for one full semester. However, an extension of such a leave may be granted on request for a period not in excess of one year from the end of the original leave.

Family Medical Leave Act - Permissible Reasons For Taking FMLA Leave
(Hunter Human Resources)

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/handbook2003-04/3-Leaves.html

Employees are eligible for FMLA leave if they worked at a CUNY College for at least 12 months and for at least 1,250 hours during the year preceding the leave.
  1. For birth of a son or daughter, and to care for the newborn child
  2. For placement with the employee of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care
  3. To care for the employee's spouse, domestic partner, son, daughter, or parent with a serious health condition, and
  4. Because of a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his/her job.

Family Medical Leave Act - Paid and Unpaid Leave (Hunter Human Resources)
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/handbook2003-04/3-Leaves.html

Approved paid leave must be used prior to unpaid leave. Both paid and unpaid FMLA leave are counted collectively in determining the maximum twelve (12) week entitlement within the September 1 - August 31 FMLA leave year. The following lists the sequence for usage of approved leave balances:
  1. for the serious medical condition of an employee, paid sick leave accruals must be first, followed by all other available time and leave accruals. Accruals must be charged before unpaid leave may be granted;
  2. for the care of a newborn, placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care (childcare leaves), or for care necessitated by the serious medical condition of a family member, all available paid time and leave accruals, other than sick leave accruals, must be charged before unpaid leave may be granted.

Family Medical Leave Act - Intermittent or Reduced Schedule (Hunter Human Resources)
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/handbook2003-04/3-Leaves.html
  1. The college will determine on a case-by-case basis whether such requests will be granted for birth, adoption or foster care placement.
  2. The minimum leave increment shall be one (1) hour.
  3. An employee taking FMLA leave on an intermittent or reduced schedule may be transferred to an alternate temporary position. The alternative position shall have equivalent pay and benefits. The alternative position does not have to have equivalent duties but will better accommodate the recurring periods of requested leave than does the employee's regular position.

Family Medical Leave Act - Health Benefits (Hunter Human Resources)
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/handbook2003-04/3-Leaves.html

Health benefits, both through the City of New York and Union welfare funds must remain in place for employees and their dependents while the employee is on an approved leave under the terms of the FMLA. For those employees whose period of leave will not include any unpaid leave time, such benefits will continue automatically. If, however, an employee's approved FMLA leave consists of any unpaid leave, the College Personnel Office will enact procedures to ensure that health benefits will not be interrupted. Procedures to cover these contingencies have yet to be promulgated by the University and must be done in conjunction with various City, State, and Union offices. Specific procedures will be provided as soon as they are available. In the interim, should an employee be placed on an FMLA leave without pay, the employee's health care provider (health plan) will be contacted directly by the College Personnel Office to prevent their termination from coverage.

Tenure Clock (Faculty Handbook) (p. 50)
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/handbook2003-04/3-Promotion.html

Tenure deliberations usually begin during the Spring semester of the fourth year of continuous service in a tenure-bearing title. All tenure recommendations forwarded by the President are subject to approval by the Board of Trustees. Reappointment with tenure is effective on September 1 of the sixth year of continuous fulltime appointment in a tenure-bearing title.

Tenure with respect to maternity leave (1996-2000 PSC/CUNY Contract)
http://www.psc-cuny.org/contract96.htm

(Section 16.9) When the service of a member of the Instructional Staff is interrupted by reason of absence on a leave for the purpose of caring for a newborn infant, the period of creditable service immediately preceding such absence shall be counted in computing the years of service required for the granting of tenure, a certificate of continuous employment, or for a certificate of continual administrative service in a Higher Education Officer series title.

Education
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/handbook2003-04/3-Benefits.html

Full-time members of the instructional staff are granted a waiver of tuition fees for undergraduate credit-bearing courses offered by CUNY during the fall and spring semesters. They are granted a waiver of tuition fees for six credits per semester (fall and spring only) at the graduate level on a space-available basis.

*Note: This information was retrieved from Hunter College staff, PSC-CUNY staff, and from the above websites.

 

 Last updated: May 25, 2005



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