Nursing Mother Rooms

Faculty, student, and staff mothers have access to 2 on-campus Nursing Mother rooms at the Loop and Lincoln Park campuses. Suburban Campus administrators can assist mothers on an as needed basis. 

The Loop and Lincoln Park locations offer a private and secure place for Nursing Mothers. Access is available upon request and requires a key. Nursing moms should go to either the key request location or the campus administrator for access.

Loop Campus
    Key Request: Student Affairs Office, Suite 1400, Lewis
    Office hours: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Room Location: 13th Floor, Lewis Building (25 E. Jackson Blvd.)

Lincoln Park Campus
    Key Request: Dean of Students Office, Room 307, Student Center
    Office hours: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Room Location: Located near the Information Desk, Student
    Center (2250 N. Sheffield)

Suburban Campus Administrators can assist mothers at these locations.
    O'Hare: Nadine Przychodni
    Rolling Meadows: Kevin Kirberg
    Naperville: Kurtis Todd
    Oak Forest: Vivian Hack

Lactation Support Guidelines

In 2001, Illinois enacted the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act (NMWA) which, in summary, requires employers to provide nursing women with reasonable time each day to express breast milk. In addition, employers must provide nursing women a private room.  A bathroom stall is not an acceptable private location.

DePaul University will make every effort to provide the appropriate accommodation for its faculty, staff and student employees with a need to utilize this benefit.  It has been determined that each Dean and Vice President's unit will be responsible for providing the necessary accommodation for any request made within their area.  Each Dean and Vice President may choose to select a designee within their area to coordinate and manage this process to ensure that the University remains in compliance.

Specific requirements include the following:

• Employee should request time and space from their manager, whether verbal or in writing it should be handled promptly. (HR recommends that managers respond within 72 hours.)
• Departments should provide reasonable time each day to an employee who needs to express breast milk.  If possible the break time should run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee.
• Departments must make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other private location, in close proximity to the work area.  The room should be clean and provide a chair, table, electric outlets and a door with a lock.

If the above accommodations are not possible, or if you have any questions or concerns regarding this communication please contact Isabel Diaz, Employee Relations Specialist in the Office of Human Resources at 312-362-8577.