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An obstacle to hiring faculty is the inability to offer a spouse or partner an appropriate faculty position or other employment. The development of clear dual-career faculty hiring policies can be a significant step forward in establishing a consistent approach to securing employment for spouses or partners of intended faculty hires. Dual-career programs at a variety of universities were analyzed to determine if any common features existed that could be adapted by a university seeking to implement such a program. This paper presents the results of that study, including recommendations for universities to consider as they develop dual-career hiring programs.
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Partner Hire Scorecard: A Ranking of the Partner-friendly Status of U.S. Universities
This report provides a complete overview of the Partner Hire Scorecard project. The report’s goals are to provide clarity about the dual-career approaches of R1 universities in the United States. We’ve assessed publicly available documents pertaining to dual-career issues at these universities and have generated a “scorecard” that ranks institutions by their partner-friendly status. Moreover, we’ve archived the relevant documents so that jobseekers, researchers, and other interested parties can access them without needing to conduct their own web searches. Finally, we coded and analyzed these many documents to discover patterns in dual-career offerings by institution type, geographic location, and other variables. The “findings” section of this report reviews those overall results.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2122460
- PAR ID:
- 10535045
- Publisher / Repository:
- Carolina Digital Repository
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- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- dual-career partner hire academia job market
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- Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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