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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.)
1. Dual Science Career Couple Web Page
  created by Marc Sher and Laurie E. McNeil
2. Resources for Academic Couples Web Page
  created by Eric L. N. Jensen
3. Peter L. Taylor's proposals for
  A scheme to facilitate spousal/partner hiring
  A scheme to improve equity and diversity in faculty appointments
4. 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
5. 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
6. Colleges and Universities with Shared Position Policies
  Grinnel College
  Knox College (appendix to McNeil and Sher Report)
7. 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
8. 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)
9. "Dual Career Couples: How Institutions of Higher Education are Keeping Them Together"
  A Report by Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel, Susan Twombly, and Suzanner Rice
10. "Partners in Science," part 1 & part 2
  by Constanza Villalba
  from Next Wave Science Magazine, 1/22/99 & 1/29/99
11. "When Officemates Are Also Roommates"
  by Robin Wilson
  from The Chronicle of Higher Education
  A discussion of the article can be found here.
12. "Splitting Faculty Positions Allows Couples to Integrate Research, Family"
  by Lee Katterman
  from The Scientist, vol. 9, #21, p. 16-17, October 3, 1995
13. "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.
14. 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