amych - you are most welcome and thank you for the responses everyone! The benefits section doesn't really say and isn't clear on "closed" days. It says, "Ten paid holidays plus seasonal days between Christmas and New Years."

The dept that is hiring is the English Dept.

lisah - did you ever get a chance to talk with your neighbor about the chair at sara's house? I have a couple other vintage things if you see her soon to talk to her about.

Yes! She is definitely interested. I just haven't managed to work it out with sara to get her the chair. I'm sure my neighbor would be interested in other things too. I'll flag her down next time I see her. (Since Frank died I don't see my neighbors nearly as much. I'm just not walking verrry slowly up and down the block as much as I used to.)

My mother used to work for a local community college and, if I remember correctly, they closed down between Christmas and New Year and on Good Friday (and probably a few other days I don't remember). She wasn't in administration per se - she did outreach for their recruiting efforts, so it might be different.

At my university the paid holidays for staff are New Years, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and the Day After Thanksgiving.

Faculty get these paid holidays, and do not have to record their vacation time at all.

Some staff and most faculty are on 9 month appointments, which means they do not work in the summer.

Some staff who work for academic departments in the College of Arts and Sciences in the summer take all of their vacation time and/or work a very short schedule in the summer because no professors are working.

Staff who work for housekeeping in dorms and for food services tend to be furloughed or transferred to the Medical Center for the summer

We also have the option, if approved, to take the summer off as our vacation at half pay (2 weeks of vacation for 1 weeks vacation pay), but this is hardly ever approved.

Staff

Others have already chimed in, but IME staff get standard federal holidays off and that's about it, plus the week between Xmas and New Years.

If one were to hypothetically work at a university, would one typically get the days that the university is closed off? And would these be paid days off?

really depends on the school. At my school, we follow the Fed. any day that the federal government is closed, we are closed, which means that only essential personnel work (hospital, U police, radio station, etc.) Other universities do different things, i.e. one of my colleagues gets a "floating holiday" and has to work either Veterans' Day or Columbis Day.

Also, the department for which you work will have some affect on your paid days off. Academic departments sometimes follow different rules than administrative ones.

Most departments I've been in work through the summer, but I can see how it would depend on the dept and the school.

Amy - replied FINALLY to your email.

lisah - GREAT. I have a vintage clothes dryer - pics are on my flickr and I also have a vintage canister set with matching bread box and cake/pie carrier/holder. There is virtually no way I could make it to B'more before I leave, but if she could work out anyway to get them, we could work out a very low price.

I'm taking a half-day off of work so I could stop by the dry cleaners and finally pick up my cross-stitch pieces ($31 just to get them pressed flat!!) and then get to campus and do my homework. Library lower level is surprisingly busy and loud due to a Blues Symposium going on this week (before Blues Fest this weekend in the city).

Now to get my last service report typed up...

Most departments I've been in work through the summer, but I can see how it would depend on the dept and the school.

When I interviewed with a department at Chicago, they were 'open' all summer but actually closed Fridays. I've seen other depts with half-day Fridays in summer as well. I wouldn't be surprised if that crops up fairly often, but it's not something you'd assume either.