While many initiatives and policy statements have addressed the challenges of women faculty, few have addressed the unique challenges that women of color experience in academia. The National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project, Work Life Balance Policy for the HBCU Context, is a partnership with the AAC&U Gender Values Project. An important objective of the Gender Values/ Work-Life Policy collaborative is to ensure that the developed rubrics are culturally responsive to HBCU institutional contexts, where a significant number of women of color are employed within higher education. The primary focus of this exploratory research study is to investigate the work-life balance policies at HBCUs and the use of the AAC&U broad-based matrix in conducting critical assessments of their institutional policies toward promoting the success of STEM women faculty of color.

Inclusive work-life balance policies

256th National Meeting (2018)

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