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Women in Higher Education

| November 01, 2008 | Herbers, Joan M. | COPYRIGHT 2008 Women in Higher Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Eight years have passed since Dr. Robert Drago and Dr. Joan Williams published "A Half-Time Tenure Track Proposal" (Change 2000) but full-time is still the faculty norm. With fulltime faculty in the sciences working between 50 and 80 hours a week, small wonder that many women scientists turn their backs on a faculty career.

Part-time and other faculty flexibility options are among the initiatives at schools that received National Science Foundation ADVANCE awards to further women in academic science and engineering careers. Iowa State University used part of its NSF grant to host a conference in October on "The New Norm of Faculty Flexibility: Transforming the ...

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