Stanford's policy a boon for moms.A GRAD STUDENT'S PREGNANCY HAS TRAditionally resulted in being pushed out of the academic pipeline. Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. (Calif.), following MIT's lead, is the second major U.S. university to develop a policy to help new mothers maintain full-time, registered student status and then return to pre-pregnancy class work and program requirements. Stanford's childbirth policy, implemented in January, was crafted by Gait A. Mahood, professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences. It states that all registered and matriculated female graduate students who are pregnant or have recently given birth: * are eligible for up to two academic quarters of academic accommodation (i.e., postponing course assignments and exams) * are eligible for full-time enrollment status (including access to health insurance and Stanford facilities/housing) * will be granted a one-quarter extension of university and departmental requirements and academic milestones In addition, those supported by fellowships, teaching assistantships, and/or research assistantships will be excused from their duties for six weeks--with pay. "I think Stanford and MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology may very well be trend-setters here," says Barbara Taylor, associate vice chancellor vice chancellor n. Abbr. VC 1. A deputy or an assistant chancellor in a university. 2. A deputy to or a substitute for a head of state or an official bearing the title chancellor. 3. for Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. at the University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas strives to be known as a "nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world." The school recently completed its "Campaign for the 21st Century," in which the university raised more than $1 billion for the school, used , and president-elect of CUPAHR CUPAHR College and University Professional Association for Human Resources , the College & University Professional Association for Human Resources. "It wasn't long ago that stopping the tenure clock for faculty who have babies was a revolutionary concept; now it's fairly commonplace." |
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