The Danforth Campus Standing Committee on Work/Life Balance advises the provost on how to foster an institutional culture that is supportive of our faculty’s lives beyond the university. Maintaining rigorous research and teaching portfolios along with institutional service requirements while fulfilling our obligations to our families, our friends, and ourselves is increasingly challenging for academics. While it affects each of us differently, none of us escapes the challenge. Accordingly, the Office of the Provost is asking the Standing Committee to identify work/life balance challenges, diagnose the underlying problems, and recommend policies and best practices to support our colleagues. We anticipate that, in its first year, the Standing Committee will examine policies and make recommendations for revisions of these or for the implementation of new guidelines; review the University’s climate surveys to identify issues and concerns to different faculty constituents; and address questions that are both campus-wide and school specific. As the committee begins its work in spring 2018, it has identified concerns regarding parental leave, lactation room initiatives, elder care benefits, and strategies to better communicate resources to our faculty members. The Committee Chair welcomes additional suggestions from Danforth Campus colleagues.
For information about the work of the Standing Committee on Faculty Work/Life Balance, to ask questions, or to make recommendations for consideration, please contact the chair Stephanie Kirk.
Associate Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Principal Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Senior Lecturer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Public Health
Associate Dean for Diversity; Associate Professor, The Brown School
John and Ellen Wallace Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior, Olin Business School
Associate Professor, Department of Biology; HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar
Associate Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Associate Professor, The Brown School
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor, African and African American Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies;
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Latin American Studies Program
Associate Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts; Area Coordinator, Fashion Design
Professor of Law
Assistant Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology