Publisher's Synopsis
This volume focuses on how colleges can, and must, help itsfaculty with the challenge of balancing careers and family. This is a challnege for colleges and universities if they are torecruit and retain the most able faculty. In particular,as long as women are at a structural disadvantage in pursuingfaculty careers to the full extent of their abilities, colleges anduniversities will not be drawing from the complete pool ofpotential faculty members.
The Challenge of Balancing Faculty Careers and FamilyWork is an instructive and informative issue for both collegefaculty and administrators, filled with importantanalysis of the current collegiate working climate, recentstudies, and innovative ideas, written by experienced andthoughtful contributors.
This is the 130th issue of the Jossey-Bass quarterlyreport series New Directions for Higher Education.
