Establishing the Family-Friendly Campus by Jaime Lester edited by Margaret Sallee

The impact of changing demographics in higher education, and the importance of family-friendly policies, is well documented. There is an urgent need to keep PhDs in the higher education sector, to recruit talented scholars into academia, and retain them over the course of their academic careers. The key is instituting policies to enable all constituencies to balance work and personal responsibilities

This book, edited by Jaime Lester and Margaret Sallee, covers the range of issues faced by all generations in academe, from PhD students, to the sandwich generation (those caring for children and aging parents simultaneously) through to older faculty and administrators. It addresses the causes for women faculty with children leaving the academy at a disproportionately higher rate than men, the conflicts women face between academic work and motherhood, and the difficulties they encounter in reentering the academy after having left the professoriate.

In examining the need for family-friendly policies, this book documents the best practices currently in use at institutions across the United States. Each chapter highlights practices and programs from a variety of institutions and institutional types that address the needs of a more inclusive family-friendly campus and offers suggestions to others who are implementing similar change on their campuses. These examples provide context so that readers no longer have to develop practices in isolation, and without evidence of their effectiveness.

"What a great resource. Margaret Sallee and Jaime Lester have left no stone unturned when it comes to research, policy, and practice related to creating family friendly policy and campuses.-- Kelly Ward, Associate Professor, Washington State University

If you need a blueprint for creating a flexible, family-responsive college or university, this is it. Actually, it provides many blueprints, because there is no single road to successful organizational change, and what you might need on your own campus is almost certainly somewhere in this book. Great stuff!-- Robert Drago, Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies, Penn State University, co-founder and chair of the Take Care Net , and past president of the College & University Work-Family Association

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