Six colleges have received Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility, worth $200,000 each, in recognition of what they are doing to promote work-life balance. The six are Albright, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, and Oberlin Colleges, and Washington and Lee University. Two other institutions have landed $25,000 awards.
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2 Responses to 6 Colleges Win Awards for Balancing Faculty Work-Life Issues
kerryjeanne - September 10, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, and Oberlin. . . hmmmm. We knew something, maybe? ;).Kerry
trax530 - September 17, 2009 at 6:17 pm
If these kinds of flexible options had been available to me ten years ago when I was almost going under due to family and personal obligations, I’d still probably be in academia. To preserve myself (literally) I gave up a position where I had already gained tenure and moved to where I could better manage the situation because I would have the support of my parents and sister. My department chair at the time tried hard to work something out–a reduced teaching load–but the administration would not budge.So here I am, unemployed, without health insurance, no pension as I was not yet vested. Very frustrated as I think I was a “good-enough” teacher, well-prepared in my field and had already moved into new directions. What a waste!