基本説明
Focuses on the question of how to juggle the demands of one's personal and professional life in the context of academia, with special enphasis on how faculty's specific challenges change over the years of their academic careers.
Full Description
Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance gives voice to faculty and reveals the myriad personal and professional issues faculty face over the span of their academic careers. Based on years of in-the-field research and two gender-based studies, Maike Ingrid Philipsen and Timothy Bostic give the issue of work-life balance a fresh perspective by taking a comparative approach to the topic in regard to both gender and career stage. The authors' research reports on the experiences of male and female faculty at early-, mid-, and late-career stages. In addition, the book goes beyond the typical "family-friendly" approach and takes an all-encompassing "life-friendly" view, recognizing the need to strive for balance in the lives of all faculty members.
Philipsen and Bostic describe enablers and obstacles that faculty encounter during their careers and how policies and programs might more effectively address the needs of faculty. Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance is filled with illustrative cases from exemplary institutions to showcase what they are doing to reform the system.
Praise for Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance
"As a junior faculty member and father of three, I know that balancing family and work can be a significant challenge. Philipsen and Bostic's research provides a wonderful opportunity to consider different approaches I can take to successfully navigate the road ahead."
—Scott J. Allen, assistant professor of management, John Carroll University
"The authors have presented a best-practices approach to real work-life dilemmas that they have documented among American faculty. Administrators should find this book of great practical help."
—Teresa A. Sullivan, president, University of Virginia
Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
The Authors xv
Introduction xvii
1 Crafting a Career 1
The Increase of Expectations 2
Lacking Clarity and the Paradox of Flexibility 6
Exemplary Institutions 14
Policy Meets Faculty 22
Recommendations 23
2 Making It Work: Having Life Partners 25
Division of Labor 26
Dual Careers 37
Exemplary Institutions 43
Policy Meets Faculty 48
Recommendations 49
3 Parenting 51
Exemplary Institutions: Child Care 64
Exemplary Institutions: Child Leave 72
Policy Meets Faculty 79
Recommendations 81
4 Thriving in Academe 85
Inherent Factors 85
Colleagues 86
Policies 89
Culture 92
Resources 95
Significant Others 99
Faculty Ingenuity 104
5 Summary and Conclusions 111
Recommendations and Successful Strategies 117
Appendix A Methods 127
Appendix B Additional Findings from the Men's Study 143
Resource A Exemplary Institutions 181
Resource B Exemplary Policies 185
Resource C Key Organizations, Readings, and Websites 195
References 201
Index 211
