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Tips from UC on creating a family-friendly campus.
With a large number of faculty in the University of California's 10-campus system expected to retire in the next decade, plus a growing enrollment, UC is entering a period of unprecedented tenure track hiring.
To recruit and retain the best and brightest scholars, UC is assessing its work-family policies for ladder-rank faculty and developing a new, innovate family-friendly package for a competitive hiring edge. A multi-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is helping.
The grant funded a survey on work-life issues, pre-tested at UC Berkeley in fall 2002 and sent to all ladder-rank faculty at other campuses in 2003.
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Carol Hoffman, manager of work/life at UC Berkeley, is part of the work/life project team. She spoke at the College and University Work/Family Association (CUWFA) conference in Phoenix in February.
A sampling of survey results
Although women now earn about 45% of doctoral and professional degrees at UC, they are only about 25% of ladder-rank faculty at UC campuses, said Hoffman.
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