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This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes. In section one, the book's focus is on empirical studies that demonstrate the need for innovative programs and policies for faculty at colleges and universities. These pieces explore issues such as the value of work/life programs for employee retention, the need for a variety of family support policies including elder care, and the influence of workplace culture on the use of existing policies. Section two includes case studies of the process of formulating family-friendly policies and their adoption at a variety of universities. The subjects of these chapters include use of the Family and Medical Leave Act, the enactment of a parental leave policy, the development of a unique \"life cycle professorship program,\" and strategies used to implement new policies. The case study chapters provide descriptions of the identification of faculty and staff needs and the process of policy development as well as advice to faculty and administrators who seek to develop similar policies at their institutions.

For the past two decades, colleges and universities have focused significant attention on helping female faculty balance work and family by implementing a series of family-friendly policies. Although most policies were targeted at men and women alike, women were intended as the primary targets and recipients. This groundbreaking book makes clear that including faculty fathers in institutional efforts is necessary for campuses to attain gender equity. Based on interviews with seventy faculty fathers at four research universities around the United States, this book explores the challenges faculty fathers--from assistant professors to endowed chairs--face in finding a work/life balance. Margaret W. Sallee shows how universities frequently punish men who want to be involved fathers and suggests that cultural change is necessary--not only to help men who wish to take a greater role with their children, but also to help women and spouses who are expected to do the same. (An Index is included.)

Taking a leave of absence (LoA) has been identified as an important precursor and risk factor for attrition for many university students. This study describes a proactive outreach intervention to students on LoA through the lens of Tinto's theory of student integration. Historical trends in the university of interest indicate just under 9% of students took a LoA between 2013 and 2018. Outreach reduced risk of attrition by approximately 9%. This proportion was maintained after controlling for equity and demographic factors, prior academic achievement and discipline of study (risk reduction approximately 8%). To our knowledge, this study is the first to describe these data and link them to theoretical models, proposing the importance of a transition pedagogy or re-integration model for students returning from LoA. Significantly, this research highlights the importance of social integration and assistance in overcoming problems with academic integration and external commitments, to students from all backgrounds. [Author abstract]

Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at high risk of chronic health conditions. We aimed to explore young adult CCS' and matched references' future diagnoses-specific healthcare use, sickness absence (SA), and disability pension (DP). We performed a prospective cohort study with microdata from seven nationwide Swedish registers. We included 1305 young adult CCS born 1983-1988 and living in Sweden in 2008 and 6430 matched references and followed them for ten years (2009-2018) regarding mean annual specialized outpatient visits, inpatient days, and SA (spells >14 days) and/or DP (SADP) days, overall and by eight diagnostic groups. Risk factors for >90 SADP days in 2018 were explored as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) by adjusted logistic regression. Approximately 80% of CCS and 90% of references did not have SADP in the ten-year follow-up. Mean SADP days/year was higher among CCS (40-50 days/year), particularly in CNS tumor survivors (76-83 days/year), compared to references (12-18 days/year). Most SADP days were DP days. CCS had more mean outpatient visits (1.6-1.8 visits/year) and inpatient days (0.8-1.7 days/year) than references (0.8-1.2 visits/year and 0.6-0.75 days/year, respectively). The main healthcare use and SADP diagnoses were neoplasms and psychiatric disorders among all CCS, along with nervous system and endocrine conditions among CNS tumor survivors. The risk of SADP >90 days in 2018 was higher among female compared to male CCS (OR = 2.34, 95% CI 1.67-3.32), those with elementary schooling compared to high school/university education (OR = 6.52, 95% CI 4.49-9.49), and survivors of CNS tumors compared to other malignancies (OR hematological versus CNS = 2.88, 95% CI 1.95-4.28; OR hematological versus non-CNS solid tumors = 0.71, 95% CI 0.45-1.09). Most CCS did not have SADP as young adults; nevertheless, their risk of SADP was higher than among matched references. CNS tumor survivors were at particularly high risk of SADP.