Use family-friendly strategies to recruit, retain faculty.

While the U.S. professorate is rapidly aging, those in the pipeline have significantly different expectations about balancing work and family life than their senior colleagues. For schools without large endowments, recruiting and retaining highly sought young talent requires a new set of creative strategies and tactics.

As director of faculty renewal and academic leadership initiatives at Canada's University of Victoria, Jan Nolan works on faculty housing and recruitment issues. She consults with others to develop programs that support and enhance efforts to attract talented faculty in a highly competitive market, including academic administrators, departments ...