Establishing the Family-Friendly Campus: Models for Effective Practice

“To achieve and maintain the excellence they desire, American universities and colleges increasingly recognize that they must recruit and retain the best faculty, staff and students. One significant way of doing this is by providing innovative work-family policies and practices. This groundbreaking book by Jaime Lester and Margaret Sallee documents the advances made by leading colleges and universities to become genuinely family-friendly campuses and in so doing position themselves on the path to excellence.”―Kathleen Christensen, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

This book documents the “best practices” currently in use at institutions across the United States so readers no longer have to develop practices in isolation, and without evidence of their effectiveness.

Jaime Lester

Margaret W. Sallee is Associate Professor and HigherEducation Program Coordinator in the Department of Educational Leadership andPolicy at the University at Buffalo. Herresearch focuses on two broad areas: faculty work and the graduate studentexperience. She uses a critical lens toexamine the intersection of individual experiences and organizational cultureto interrogate the ways in which gender and other social identities operate oncollege campuses. She has spent much ofthe past decade focusing on work/life balance and the ways in whichinstitutional norms and culture shape parents’ experiences on andoff-campus. She also is deeplyinterested in how gender affects individuals’ experiences and is particularlyinterested in the role that gender and masculinities play in men’s lives.