This series of projects highlights and rewards institutions that effectively recruit, retain, and advance faculty in their careers as a means of developing institutional capacity. Recent programs include efforts to create smooth transitions into retirement for faculty, and working with medical schools. Working with pilot institutions and systems to understand their challenges, ACE develops strategies and policy recommendations through invitational conferences, awards programs, and presentations at national meetings. In addition, an online toolkit links to proven practices that other colleges and universities can replicate for institutional effectiveness.
The National Higher Education Coalition, composed of college and university Presidential Coalition Partners and the American Council on Education, is developing a campaign to engage their colleagues in creating an increasingly broader awareness of the positive benefits of workplace flexibility for both institutions and their faculties. Successful implementation of flexible options in academic settings depends on leadership support in both words and actions, training of key leaders (provosts, deans, department chairs, search and tenure and promotion committees), tracking of key metrics, and an openness to changing the culture to accept new ways of working.
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