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Family Leave and Tenure Clock Extensions
Dual Career Hires
The number of dual career partners has increased substantially and is often a critical component to the hiring process. A dual career hire situation is one in which one partner has received an offer (or made the short-list) at an institution and a suitable career opportunity must be found for the other partner. Dual career situations can be excellent retention opportunities as people may appreciate a university's responsiveness to the needs of a dual career couple.In addition to the official UW policy on Dual Career Hires, ADVANCE has generated recommendations for department chairs, are posted on the ADVANCE resources web page.
ADVANCE encourages its departments to include language in job ads that states that the University of Washington has an active dual career hiring program. Such a statement encourages the applicant to disclose early on in the interview process that he/she has a partner who will need job placement assistance. With more time, the chances of finding a job for the partner are greatly increased.
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Family Leave and Tenure Clock Extension
The University of Washington has an official family leave and tenure clock extension policy that allows a faculty member to take a medical and/or family leave. Information regarding the official university policy can be found at UW Academic Human Resources website.
To help facilitate department chairs' understanding about the policy and their responsibilities and role in facilitating family leave and tenure clock extensions for their faculty, ADVANCE has developed a one-page handout. This handout was distributed during the Fall 2003 Leadership Workshop for Chairs and Deans.
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Part-Time Faculty
During the 2002-2003 academic year, ADVANCE received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to conduct an exploratory study on the implementation of part-time tenure-track faculty careers at the University of Washington. Initial findings indicated that policies are underutilized for a variety of reasons. These findings regarding the University of Washington's part-time faculty policy were presented at an American Association of University Professors workshop in July 2003 by Dr. Suzanne Brainard, Executive Director, Center for Workforce Development (and an ADVANCE internal evaluator), and Kate Quinn, the research assistant working on this project. For more information contact Kate Quinn at kquinn@u.washington.edu. A PDF copy of the WEPAN 2004 Conference Proceedings article "Part-Time Tenure Track Policies: Assessing Utilization" is available. Additionally, a PDF copy of the final report to the Sloan Foundation can be found here. We also have an article in the special edition of Academe, "Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work," entitled "Family-Friendly Policies and the Research University."
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Resources
Matrix of ADVANCE Schools' Policies and Work/Life programs
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
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