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Our Temple Family Needs Childcare

The Childcare@Temple: Today and Tomorrow Symposium will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 on Wednesday, Oct 24 in HGSC 217.

ALL Temple Faculty, Staff, Students, and Administrators are encouraged to attend!

  • Share how you find, use, and experience childcare for your family members.
  • Learn about recent research on childcare, and benefits currently available.
  • Offer your input into how changes in childcare can serve all members of the University Community.

This event is jointly sponsored by the Temple University Faculty Senate and the Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP)

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TAUP Childcare Survey

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Dear Faculty, Librarians, and Academic Professionals,

After many discussions and considerable research into how nearly 20 other peer and aspirant universities approach child care for their employees, the joint TAUP-Faculty Senate Committee on Child Care is ready for the next step—to hear from you about a range of potential options to address this crucial issue.

So please fill out this survey by February 16th.  If there is sufficient support for some sort of childcare benefit, your responses will shape the proposal our Committee will put forth; the current TAUP contract obliges the administration to “review, consider, and respond to any proposals in a timely fashion.”

If you have any questions or concerns or would like to join the Committee, please contact the Chair, Marsha Weinraub (Psychology): marsha.weinraub@temple.edu.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Steve Newman,

President,  TAUP and Faculty Senator for CLA, on behalf of the Child Care Committee

Tuition Benefits at Other Universities:  Moving Forward

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As you may know, the current TAUP contract, which now expires October 15, 2019, includes a side letter which commits Temple’s administration to respond to proposals on tuition benefits at other universities put forth jointly by the Faculty Senate and TAUP.  This benefit would be of great value to our members and to Temple in recruiting and retaining talented faculty, librarians, and academic professionals.  So we are assembling a new committee to continue the work that was done in 2015, which included an inquiry into Tuition Exchange and other potential models and a discussion on how to survey members.  

 If you’re interested in serving on the committee, here’s what to expect:


  • The Committee will meet once a month for 60-90 minutes, perhaps more frequently if necessary; but we are more likely to do our work individually and in small groups.

  • Members will be expected to do research and engage in productive conversations on the particular elements of the proposal that interest them most.

  • The Committee will formulate and distribute a survey by the end of January and analyze the results by the end of February.

  • The Committee will put forth proposals to the Administration by the end of the Spring 2018 semester.

If you are interested in participating and are a dues-paying member of TAUP, please contact Steve Newman, President of TAUP (stevenewman1970@gmail.com); if you are interested but aren’t a dues-paying member, please contact Michael Sachs, President of the Faculty Senate (msachs@temple.edu).