An Opportunity for Dependent Child Care for Nontenured Ladder Faculty While Traveling
Date: August 10, 2009
To: All Nontenured Ladder Faculty
From: Peter Salovey, Provost
Re: An Opportunity for Dependent Child Care
for Nontenured Ladder Faculty While Traveling
Thanks to a generous gift creating the Anne Coffin Hanson Faculty Support Fund, Yale can provide to ladder faculty in the ranks of assistant professor and associate professor on term, in all schools of the University, grants of up to $1,000 per year for qualified and substantiated child care expenses incurred when traveling to conferences, research sites, or other opportunities for professional development or scholarship. These grants may be used to meet expenses incurred at the location of travel or at home when, as a consequence of the trip, those costs exceed the normal costs for childcare at home. Spouses are not eligible for travel expenses or compensation from this grant.
Qualified costs include:
- Travel expenses for the child and, if appropriate, for the caregiver.
- Child care expenses at the conference or research site.
- Cost of incremental after-hours care at home or at the travel site during the period of travel.
Professor Hanson was one of the very first women to hold a tenure appointment at Yale and the first to chair a department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The program is being instituted for a period of three years, for travel that takes place on or after July 1, 2009. At the end of three years, it will be reviewed for possible renewal.
Nontenured ladder faculty wishing to apply for a grant must submit to the Office of the Provost an Application for a Child Care Travel Grant, available on the web at http://www.yale.edu/ppdev/forms/hr/
3501FR.51_Faculty_Dependent_Child_Care.xls
Under current law, these grants must be treated as taxable benefits subject to withholding tax.
Peter Salovey, Provost
Yale University
