Congratulations to Balance@UW Program Director Kate Quinn!
Kate accepted the position of Associate Project Director for the Center for
Effective Leadership-Alfred P. Sloan Foundation projects on faculty career flexibility
at the American Council on Education, starting June 1, 2009.
She can be reached at kate_quinn@ace.nche.edu.
Background
Balance@UW began with the UW receiving a 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation "Flexible Faculty Career" Award.
For the first round of this competition, the University administration completed a survey of policy availability and utilization. The UW's responses are benchmarked against other participants (PDF). Institutions that scored above the mean advanced to the second round.
Of the 52 institutions competing, 27 institutions, including the UW, advanced to the second round. For the second round of the competition, UW tenured and tenure-track faculty were asked to participate in the Faculty Survey of experiences with flexible policy options, while the administration drafted a proposal that detailed eight goals to improve the family-friendly climate at UW and to increase the use of flexible policies by faculty by the year 2008. Aggregate UW faculty responses are compared to aggregate faculty responses from other participating universities (PDF).
The UW was one of five institutions selected to receive an award.
The Flexible Faculty Career award provided a $250,000 accelerator grant to implement the "Eight by '08" goals.