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Winning Strategies for Dual Career Graduate and Postdoc Students (Academic Couples)

Learn effective strategies for managing dual careers in academia. This resource provides insights on partner hiring policies, brokering deals, and advice for dual-career couples. Available for download at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research's website.

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Winning Strategies for Dual Career Graduate and Postdoc Students (Academic Couples)

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  1. Winning Strategies for Dual Career Graduate and Postdoc Students (Academic Couples) Andrea Rees Davies, Ph.D. Director, Programs and Research The Clayman Institute for Gender Research http://gender.stanford.edu

  2. Partner Status of U.S. Academic Workforce

  3. Dual Hiring is on the Increase

  4. Released August 2008 To download a copy, visit the Clayman Institute for Gender Research’s website at: http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/Publications/index.html

  5. Three key reasons for universities to take a new look at couple hiring: Excellence Diversity Quality of Life

  6. Academic Couples, by Hire Type

  7. Partner Status of Same-Sex Couples

  8. Partner Status of Underrepresented Minorities

  9. Men and Women have Different Partnering Patterns

  10. UniversityPolicies

  11. Policy or No Policy? Arguments for written policies: • Creates competitive edge—institutional speed and agility • Facilitates clear communication among key players across the university • Ensures equitable treatment of all clients Arguments against written policies: • Decreases institutional flexibility • Encroaches on departmental autonomy • Waives open searches and jeopardizes open competition

  12. When to raise the partner issue?

  13. Who brokers the deal? Two basic models: 1. Requests follow usual chain of command flowing up from department chair through dean’s office, vice provost or provost • Departmental Chair takes lead • Vice Provost for Diversity takes lead 2. Requests go to “central dual-hire broker,” a special assistant to the provost

  14. Advice for Dual-Career Academic Couples • Quality • Investigate Institution • Tell as early as possible • Know what you want

  15. Advice for Dual-Career Academic Couples • Use your networks • Your faculty member • Your current institution • Career Development Center • Faculty alums • HERC - Higher Education Recruitment Consortium • http://www.hercjobs.org

  16. For further information: • Download our Report: • http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/ResearchPrograms/DualCareer/DualCareerFinal.pdf • 2. Enter our Dual-Career Portal • http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/ResearchPrograms/DualCareer/index.html

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