THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                         FACULTY SENATE 


                                                                  
                             Senate Document Number    1697S 

                             Date of Senate Approval  1/23/97


Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

        FWDC 3:  Guidelines for Children in the Workplace

UNCA recognizes that faculty members may occasionally need to
bring their children with them to work.  However, faculty members
are expected to observe the following guidelines when doing so.

Guidelines:

__   Parents will assume responsibility for direct supervision of
     their children.  Young children are not to be left
     unsupervised in public areas (lounges, student center,
     library, etc..), nor are they to be left in the care of
     university staff.

--   Parents should prevent children from creating excessive
     noise or disturbing others in the work environment.
 
--   Parents will assume liability for their children.

--   Parents should not bring sick children to campus.
Rationale:

For many parents child care is a major issue in the conflict
between work and family involvement.  Since there are occasions
when faculty must bring their children to campus, the guidelines
above establish some common behavioral expectations. 

Faculty members have private offices which will allow them to
keep their children out of the general departmental workspaces. 
Because faculty schedules are flexible, they may bring children
to the campus for shorter periods of time during the day.