The
Mapping
Project The
Mapping
Project The Pennsylvania
State University and
The Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation
Last updated September 15, 2006
Research on the work/family circumstances of faculty at U.S. institutions of higher education suggests that faculty status tends to be incompatible with family commitments, particularly for women. Building upon the earlier Faculty & Families Project, the Mapping Project sought to identify the barriers to family commitments, and how these vary according to gender, type of institution, geographic location, discipline, tenure structures, and potential social support. By identifying the sources of these barriers, we hoped to locate methods and mechanisms to remove the barriers and provide faculty with greater opportunities to make and meet commitments to both work and family.
The Final Report is now available:
Executive Summary
Chapters 1-5
References & Appendices
Publications from the Project:
"The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving: The Case of Academic Faculty," American Behavioral Scientist (May 2006), R. Drago, C. Colbeck, D. Stauffer, A. Pirretti, K. Burkum, & T. Habasevich.
"Accept, Avoid, Resist: Faculty Members' Responses to Bias Against Caregiving... and How Departments Can Help," Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Nov-Dec 2005), C. Colbeck & R. Drago.
“The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving Among Faculty," Academe (Sept-Oct 2005), R. Drago, C. Colbeck, D. Stauffer, A. Varner, K. Burkum, J. Fazioli, G. Guzman and T. Habasevich."Delayed Career Entry: A New Source of Talent," Ivey Business Journal (July-Aug 2005), R. Drago, C. Colbeck, A. Bardoel.
Preliminary Survey Results: lser.la.psu.edu/workfam/prelimresults.htm
Case Study Selection and Description: lser.la.psu.edu/workfam/casestudyselection.htm
Total donations from the project for responses to the survey (survey completion: 3/31/2002). NOTE: All donations were mailed as of May 24, 2002.
|
American Red Cross |
$1,954 |
|
United Way |
$1,636 |
|
National Institute for Literacy |
$3,036 |
|
Save the Children |
$2,756 |
|
Other organizations |
$350 |
Major components The Mapping Project is comprised of three main research tasks:
Survey of Faculty - a web-based survey of a projected 20 faculty each at 600 institutions of higher learning in the U.S. The survey is designed to identify barriers to family commitments, strategies used by faculty to meet commitments to work and to family, and the extent of institutional support for faculty (results to be posted here, April 2002). See Faculty survey.
Administrator interviews, focus groups, and analysis of policies at 9 to 12 institutions stratified according to the extent to which they are responsive to family commitments, and related factors. See Procedures/Forms.
Shadowing of 16 faculty to
discover how they combine work and family responsibilities, with the sample
stratified according to gender, discipline, and institutional support as
found in the survey results.
Project time frame August 2001-June 2003
Principal Investigators
| Robert Drago Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies 133 Willard Building Penn State University University Park PA 16803 drago@psu.edu (email) 814-865-0751(phone) 814-863-3578(fax) |
Carol Colbeck Associate Professor of Education 300 Rackley Bldg., Dept. of Educ. Policy Studies Penn State University University Park PA 16803 clc15@psu.edu (email) 814-865-9740(phone) 814-865-1480(fax) |
Related Links at Penn State
The Faculty & Families Project:
http://lser.la.psu.edu/workfam/facultyfamilies.htm
The Center for Work and Family Research: http://www.ssri.psu.edu/cwfr/
The Work/Family Newsgroup: http://lser.la.psu.edu/workfam
Center for the Study of Higher Education: http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/
The Population Research Institute: http://www.pop.psu.edu/
The Children, Youth and Families Consortium: http://www.cyfc.psu.edu/
The Commission for Women: http://www.lions.psu.edu/CFW/