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The Alfred P. Sloan Projects for Faculty Career Flexibility

New Award
•	Recognizing and Rewarding Faculty Career Flexibility in Academic Medicine
Recent News
•	New Paper Examines Legal Issues in Faculty Retirement
More Information
•	Definition of Faculty Career Flexibility
•	Past Initiatives in Faculty Career Flexibility
•	Current Initiative: Retirement
•	Current Initiative: Medical Schools
•	Toolkit for Faculty Career Flexibility

Read more about faculty career flexibility:
		An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers

Since 2003, the American Council on Education (ACE), in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has been investigating the structural and cultural changes necessary to increase flexibility in faculty careers.

We believe these changes will assist institutions in recruiting and retaining highly talented and diverse faculty members. Two important outcomes from these projects have been An Agenda For Excellence and the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility.

Current Initiatives

• Following award-winning institutions as they implement faculty career flexibility initiatives on their campuses.
   
• Faculty Retirement Transitions: Exploring how institutions support faculty retirement, including: the culminating stages of faculty careers, the development of legacy, the transition into retirement, and the continuing inclusion of emeriti faculty within the campus community.
   
• Investigating Career Flexibility for Faculty in Academic Medicine.
   
• Working with the federal agencies to see how flexibility can be addressed within agency grants as well as through training evaluators to eliminate bias.

Contact us for more information about these initiatives

Claire Van Ummersen, Senior Advisor and Project Director
cvanummersen@acenet.edu
202-939-9389

Jean McLaughlin, Senior Program Specialist
jmclaughlin@acenet.edu
202-375-7531

Please direct questions about this page to:
jmclaughlin@acenet.edu
This page last updated on 11/04/2011