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Toolkit: Keys Resources for Administrators, Faculty and Students

These web pages are designed to be a portal for resources for administrators, faculty, and students.

Each web page contains information gathered from three rounds of Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility, and from ongoing work ACE has done with various partners across the country.

Spotlight on:

This section will highlight a great flexibility resource on a rotational basis.

Our current spotlight is on the University of California's Faculty Family Friendly Edge. This resource contains links to current UC policies and future initiatives, statements from the various UC President voicing their support for faculty career flexibility, and surveys & research articles on their progress and outcomes.

From their web site:

"The UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge is series of projects designed to support the development and implementation of innovative work-family policies and programs for academics in the UC system, as well as to examine the role of institutions of higher education and federal granting agencies in leaks from the academic pipeline at all stages."

Popular Resources

Here is a listing of web-based resources commonly used that deal with faculty career flexibility and related issues:

• Alliance for Work/Life Progress.
   
• American Association of University Professor's web page on balancing faculty work and life.
   
• Center for WorkLife Law's web page for academics, and their new "Gender Bias Bingo" game and web page.
   
• Center for the Education of Women's higher education page.
   
• The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.
   
• College and University Work/Family Association.
   
• Families and Work Institute.
   
• Higher Education Recruitment Consortium.
   
• National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife.
   
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Workplace, Work Force and Working Families.
   
• Sloan Work and Family Research Network.

Here is a listing of additional resources (e.g., print materials, forms, and other web links) that deal with faculty career flexibility and related issues:

• NASA's Title IX & STEM Promising Practices for Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (see p. 24).