Department of Science and Technology Studies
A Report on Spousal Hiring Policies in
Academe
Contents
Note that this document is not
currently being maintained, so the links may no longer be
current.
- Introduction
- Approaches to Spousal
Career Issues
- Some Issues Regarding Dual
Career Couples
- Suggestions for
Noncompetitive Hiring Policies
- Appendices (Note that
these are external links to the source materials -- the numbers refer to the
section tabs of a resource binder containing hard copies of these
documents.)
- Dual Science Career Couple Web Page
created by
Marc Sher and
Laurie E. McNeil
- Resources for Academic Couples Web Page
created by
Eric L. N. Jensen
- Peter L. Taylor's proposals for
A scheme to facilitate
spousal/partner hiring
A scheme to
improve
equity and diversity in faculty appointments
- The Report on the Dual Career Couples Survey
by
Marc Sher and
Laurie
E. McNeil
also a
brief overview of the survey from
American
Physical Society News
- Colleges and
Universities with Placement Assistance Programs (Note that some of
these institutions may have spuosal hiring policies as part of their
placement assistance program.)
University of Arizona
Gettysburg College
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
Ohio
University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Colleges and
Universities with Shared Position Policies
Grinnel College
Knox College (appendix to McNeil and Sher Report)
- Colleges and
Universities with Spousal Hiring Policies
University of Arizona
Arizona State University
Northern Arizona University
University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
University of Minnesota -- Duluth
University of Wisconsin
- Colleges and
Universities considering the adoption of Spousal Hiring Policies
Binghamton University
University of California -- Santa Cruz
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(includes discussion from Faculty Council Meeting)
- "Dual Career Couples: How Institutions of Higher Education are
Keeping Them Together"
A Report by Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel, Susan Twombly, and Suzanner Rice
- "Partners in
Science,"
part 1 & part 2
by
Constanza Villalba
from Next
Wave Science Magazine, 1/22/99 & 1/29/99
- "When Officemates Are Also Roommates"
by Robin Wilson
from The
Chronicle of Higher Education
A discussion
of the article can be found here.
- "Splitting Faculty Positions Allows Couples to
Integrate Research, Family"
by Lee
Katterman
from The Scientist, vol. 9, #21, p. 16-17, October 3, 1995
- "And the Two Shall Be as One: Job Sharing in an Academic
Department"
by Mark Montgomery and
Irene Powell
from the CSWEP Newsletter,
October 1995.
- An
Analysis of Faculty Turnover at UW-Madison
by Margaret Harrigan,
Office of Planning,
Budget and Analysis, UW-Madison
This document can be found at: http://www.rpi.edu/~kantop/spouse/spousal_review.html
Developed
for the
Department
of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New
York
Copyright
(August) 1999 -- Peter L.
Kantor