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The UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge:
turning a problem into UC's competitive advantage

The UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge is an initiative designed to develop and implement a comprehensive package of innovative work-family policies and programs for ladder-rank faculty in the UC system. The Faculty Family Friendly Edge will promote the recruitment and retention of the best and the brightest, help all members of the university community achieve their fullest potential as scholars and teachers, and greatly contribute to the continued excellence of the University of California.

> Learn More about the UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge

> Download a Copy of the UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge Report (PDF)

> Download a Copy of the UC Faculty Work and Family Survey Presentation (PPT)

> Download a Copy of the UC Faculty Work and Family Survey

> Download a copy of the Creating a Family Friendly Department: Chairs and Deans Toolkit

> Download a Copy of the UC Doctoral Student Career and Life Survey

> Download the Powerpoint presentation of findings from the UC Doctoral Student Career and Life Survey


Major Initiatives

The UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge includes policies, programs, services and benefits to support faculty and their families... all types of families. These options and programs are continuously under improvement and expansion. Here are some examples:

  • Up to two terms (quarters or semesters) reduced duties (ASMD active service-modified duties) for new parents with substantial care-giving responsibilities.

  • Stopping the tenure clock to allow time for care of a newborn or newly adopted child under five.

  • A flexible part-time option for ladder-rank faculty with substantial familial caregiving responsibilities.

  • Parental leave (unpaid) for up to one year to care for a child (including a child of either spouse or domestic partner).

  • One year unpaid leave to care for self or a sick family member, including domestic partner. Up to 12 weeks fully paid leave with Chancellor's approval.

  • An institutional commitment to both current and future expansion of high-quality infant and child care.

  • Housing assistance and a new program for Partners and Spouses job search.

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What's New?
>Academe Why Graduate Students Reject the Fast Track. A study of thousands of doctoral students shows that they want balanced lives. By Mary Ann Mason, Marc Goulden, and Karie Frasch
> PDF with figures
> Powerpoint presentation of survey findings
Project Materials and Links
> Press Coverage
> Project Articles, Columns, Letters, and Mason and Ekman Book
>UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge Reports, Presentations, and Proposals
>UC Faculty Family Friendly Policies (PDF)
>Joint Statement (DOC) on Gender Equity in Higher Education by 9 Presidents of Major Universities
See Press Release (DOC)

What's Happening @
Local Campuses:
UC President
Robert C. Dynes
(1/27/2004)

"I am pleased to carry on the important work initiated by President Atkinson to promote gender equity and to develop more family friendly policies for ladder-rank faculty."

 

Former UC President
Richard C. Atkinson
(2/6/2003)

". . . I am even more convinced that gender equity is one of the most pressing issues facing the University of California . . . . Women and American Minority groups constitute the fastest growing pool of faculty candidates.

. . . It is my belief that well-written and thoroughly implemented family accommodation policies are fundamental to an equitable and productive academic environment."