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The National Challenge for Higher Education: Retaining a 21st Century Workforce campaign asks college and university presidents to promote faculty career flexibility on their campuses.
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March 11, 2013
ACE honored the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and President Paul Joskow for their long-term contributions to higher education on work/life balance, student access and other issues earlier this week at its 95th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
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ACE and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation honor five medical schools today by awarding each a $250,000 grant for excellence in faculty career flexibility. Two additional institutions will receive $25,000 each for promising practices in the field.
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Participants in the ACE Fellows Program visited DePaul University Aug. 27 to explore how an institution uses its long-term planning process as a tool to meet institutional mission goals.
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The Center for Policy Analysis is responsible for the content in ACE Fact Sheets on Higher Education.
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The Center for Policy Analysis is responsible for the content in ACE Fact Sheets on Higher Education.
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ACE and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today recognized 15 colleges and universities that demonstrate cutting-edge approaches to supporting faculty before, during and after their retirement transitions. Awardees will each receive $100,000 grants to accelerate innovative practices.
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A paper discussing a last resort to alleviate severe financial difficulty for most institutions—the layoff of faculty members. The paper covers the role of faculty in institutional budget matters and the process of terminating faculty positions on grounds of financial need.
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September 1, 2008
There is a dearth of young permanent faculty who will have the time and opportunity to advance up the academic career ladder into positions of administrative leadership at colleges and universities. This scarcity of young academics seems to be the combined result of three developments: an aging professoriate, rising numbers of part-time and non–tenure-line faculty, and students completing doctoral education and entering the professoriate later in life. This issue brief describes the demographics of junior faculty, explains why there are so few young adults in the professoriate, outlines the level of experience expected of current leaders, and discusses the implications for the future leadership of higher education.
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The American Council on Education, with generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has partnered with the National Panel of Presidents and Chancellors from 10 major research universities to raise awareness and spark national dialogue on the need for creating flexibility in tenure-track faculty career paths.