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.

The principal investigators for this project are UC Berkeley's Mary Ann Mason, Dean of the Graduate Division, and Angelica Stacy, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity. Marc Goulden and Karie Frasch, UC Berkeley Researchers, co-manage the project.

The University of California is now embarking upon an era of unparalleled new faculty hires. With the research and policy initiatives made possible by this multi-year grant from the Sloan Foundation, the University will be better able to attract the world's best young scholars and to foster greater professional achievement and fuller family lives for all its faculty throughout the entire ten-campus system.

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