CEW Programs and Events
Registration for CEW programs and events is now open. Review your choices and register early. Select from Career and personal development workshops, building your financial future, special events, programs for students and research fellows and work life balance.

UM Alumnae Council Supports CEW's Outreach Program for Community College Students The University of Michigan Alumnae Council has selected the Center for the Education of Women to be the recipient of its annual Birthday Greeting Award for 2008. CEW will host two programs in October for Community College Students.

CEW Open House for Community College Transfer Students
Thursday, October 9, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
CEW, 330 E. Liberty Street
We invite UM students who have transferred from community colleges (and those considering coming to the UM) to meet the CEW career counselors in order to learn about our scholarships, programs and services. This open house will include a brief program and the opportunity to connect with representatives from campus and community resources. A networking reception will follow the program.  Registration is required, and space is limited. Please call 734-764-6005 for more information or register at www.cew.umich.edu. Deadline to register: Tuesday, October 7th. Co-sponsored with the Jack Kent Cooke Community College Transfer Student Project. Register online

Tools for Success Seminar for Community College Transfer Students: Navigating UM
Saturday, October 18, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
CEW, 330 E. Liberty Street
This interactive program for potential and current transfer students will provide useful information regarding time management, test-taking techniques, stress management, study strategies, student life, financial aid, child care facilities and other campus resources available to students. The seminar will also focus on the development of college survival skills. Registration is required, and space is limited. Please call 734-764-6005 for more information or register online. Deadline to register: Thursday, October 16th. Co-sponsored with the Jack Kent Cooke Community College Transfer Student Project.

New Study Finds Michigan Economy Threatened by Lack of Women in Science and Technology

"Michigan Women and the High-Tech Knowledge Economy," a new paper by Susan Kaufmann, CEW Associate Director for Advocacy, explores how well women in Michigan and the U.S. are preparing to take their places in the developing high-tech knowledge economy. Women's low representation in the physical sciences, engineering and computer science and technology threatens to derail Michigan's goal of greatly increasing the educational attainment of state residents in those fields. This paper explores barriers girls and women experience while outlining actions that state and federal government, local school boards, colleges and universities, and Michigan families can take to ensure that women take their full place in the highly-trained workforce that Michigan needs to be an innovative competitor in the global economy. Read more.

 

New data on non tenure track faculty in the U.S.
The Dual Ladder in Higher Education - Research, Resources, and the Academic Workforce Dual Ladder Clearinghouse, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is a three year grant examining how non tenure track faculty are affected by the “dual ladder” in higher education.

CEW presents preliminary findings and analyses based on our 2005 survey regarding institutional policies and practices concerning full and part time instructional faculty in non tenure track positions.  The online survey asked administrators to provide information on non tenure track faculty at their institutions, including their utilization, their working conditions, benefits and compensation, and mobility between tenure track and non tenure track positions.

Key findings of Non Tenure Track Faculty: The Landscape at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education include the expectation that use of non tenure track faculty will increase more slowly than the literature might indicate, that although the terms “part time” and “non tenure track” are often used interchangeably nearly half of non tenure track faculty are employed full-time, and that mobility between non tenure track and tenure track positions varies a great deal by type of institution, and that the presence of a faculty union makes a sizeable difference to the frequency with which benefits are offered to non tenure track faculty.

The Executive Summary includes key findings along with methodology and background.

The full report, Non Tenure Track Faculty:  The Landscape at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education, includes the Executive Summary as well as tables and charts reporting analysis of the
survey data. Read more.

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Designing and Implementing Family-Friendly Policies in Higher Education Now Available

Designing and Implementing Family-Friendly Policies in Higher Education, a newly-released publication from CEW’s Sloan-funded project on the academic workforce is now available from CEW.  This publication offers suggestions for creating effective, flexible policies at institutions of higher education and includes specific examples from various colleges and universities.  Download this report. Thanks to generous funding from the Sloan Foundation, you may request printed copies of this publication at no charge.  Please email us at acadclearinghouse@umich.edu

 

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