Concerns Raised During Town Hall Meetings

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  • The expansion of the UAB Child care Development Center, along with a plan to lower its cost to the consumer; a child-care facility in the UAB Hospital
  • The possibility of TIAA/CREF matching, life insurance and educational assistance benefits for part-time monthly employees, many of whom are working mothers
  • Greater course offerings in Women’s Studies
  • More online and night-course offerings for non-traditional and working women students
  • The establishment of breast-feeding and pumping stations for women across campus
  • The establishment of a paid maternity leave policy to enhance recruitment, the lives of current employees and better utilize employees’ sick time
  • Clearer and more easily accessible explanations of the existing options for women who need to take maternity leave or family leave
  • An extended medical-school option, i.e. stretching your first two or second two years into three in order to allow for maternity leave and child-care time
  • The coordination of UAB’s spring breaks with local schools (i.e., all the local school districts and private schools had coordinated their spring breaks last year which were one week before UAB’s spring break)
  • Adequate training of chairs and unit supervisors to inform employees of standing maternity leave options, etc.
  • Greater access to the Spousal Relocation Program for all employees, not just upper administration
  • Greater salary equity and job classification equity among staff
  • Creating a reserve for yearly raises so that single parents (mostly mothers) do not have to go for several years without a raise
  • Changing the policy of no-part-timers on tenure track
  • The creation of a mentoring network for women on campus
  • The creation of a working-mothers network for women on campus
  • Determining what it is that prohibits women from obtaining and keeping leadership positions at UAB
  • Creating funding for the Commission on the Status of Women that will allow it to undertake the necessary and on-going research into salary and quality-of-life issues for women at UAB
  • The creation of a menu of benefits—a “benefit option package”—that would allow employees to select those benefits that they need the most
  • The creation of a four-day, 40-hour work week, available to all UAB employees
  • Greater police presence at all times on all areas of the campus
  • A more expansive Escort Service and Campus Ride service
  • Greater representation of women at the leadership level on campus
  • Publication of on-campus criminal activity
  • The use of employee orientation to build community and better distribute policy
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