Caregiving

Supporting faculty caregivers with information and resources 

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Finding sustainable ways to balance caregiving and career—including caring for oneself, young children, aging parents, or other loved ones—can be a challenge. OFD’s Caregiving page includes information, resources, and support to help faculty and librarians meet these needs. Here you can find care providers as well as benefits available to provide care, such as parental leave, sick leave, and family medical leave.  

Caregiving & Career

Resources to support caregiving and mental health, children in school, and older adults can be found below. 

Finding Providers

If you need to find a provider, here are resources to help find the right caregiver for you, along with tips on finding outsourced care. 

Benefits & Leave to Provide Care

  • Massachusetts Society of Professors (MSP) Work-Life Policies: The MSP has negotiated with the administration to create policies around parental leave, sick leave, family medical leave, partner hiring, and other benefits that make it possible for faculty and librarians to have full lives as well as careers. With changing gender roles and family forms, MSP has established that faculty recruitment and retention requires university support for work-life balance. 

  • Childcare & Eldercare Assistance Program: (funding available for MSP bargaining unit members only) Questions regarding childcare and eldercare reimbursements should be directed to @email.  

  • Family & Medical Leave Act: The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. 

Caregiving Resources

NCFDD Webinar: How to Balance Parenting and Productivity—A Realistic Approach for Faculty with Young Children NCFDD Webinar: How to Balance Parenting and Productivity—A Realistic Approach for Faculty with Young Children NCFDD Webinar: Strategies for Academics Managing Career and Caretaking during the Pandemic (and beyond. . .) NCFDD Webinar: Strategies for Academics Managing Career and Caretaking during the Pandemic (and beyond. . .)
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Angela de Oliveira

Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Professor of Resource Economics

Dr. Angela C.M. de Oliveira provides vision and leadership for the Office of Faculty Development, focusing especially on leadership development, mentoring, mid-career, awards and recognition, as well as community, inclusion, and wellness programs to support healthy, equitable, thriving faculty and departments.
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