Title IX protects students and employees from discrimination based on pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions. The university will provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant and lactating students and employees.
Academic Supportive Measures
Students who are pregnant or have recently given birth may request academic supportive measures from the Title IX and Equity Office. When a request for academic measures is submitted by a student, our team will work closely with the Coordinator for Disability and Accessibility Services to ensure the provision of reasonable and appropriate academic measures.
Academic measures may include, but are not limited to: making up assignments that were missed due to a pregnancy-related reason, allowances for the pregnant student's health and safety (e.g. maintaining a safe distance from hazardous substances), excused absences for medically necessary reasons, withdrawal from an educational program, and/or a leave of absence.
The Coordinator for Disability and Accessibility Services: determines and prescribes temporary accommodations for students with documented pregnancy-related limitations.
Leave of Absences and Withdrawals
For more information regarding academic supportive measures for pregnant and parenting students, please refer to California Assembly Bill 809.
Lactation Accommodations
Adequate break time for breastfeeding or lactating employees should accommodate the time to walk to and from the lactation station as well as retrieve, set up, wash, and clean a pump or other breastfeeding supplies, as well as expressing or storing milk. Requests should be made to managers for adequate break time.
While students should breastfeed or pump between classes if possible, reasonable academic supportive measures will be provided to ensure that students do not incur an academic penalty due to expressing milk or breastfeeding. Requests for reasonable academic supportive measures can be made directly to faculty members. If you prefer, you may also make the request through the Title IX and Equity Office.
SFBU is committed to supporting faculty, staff, and students who need to either breastfeed or express milk for their child on campus during hours of operation, by providing lactation stations, adequate break time for employees to breastfeed or express milk, and information to students & employees regarding their rights and the locations of lactation rooms.
You may work with the Title IX and Equity Office to find a location on campus that meets the minimum requirements and is a reasonable lactation room.
For more information regarding access to adequate lactation rooms, please refer to California Senate Bill No. 142.