ABSTRACT
This chapter provides definition of faculty career flexibility, reviews the trends from the Alfred p. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility, and describes several outstanding models of faculty career flexibility policies and programs that can be replicated. It presents the rationale for the urgent need to have faculty career flexibility policies and practices in place. The cost of implementing and providing faculty career flexibility policies and programs is often cited as one of the challenges to doing so. In publicizing policies and programs, a clear connection should exist between how faculty career flexibility policies and practices help advance institutional goals to promote excellence, not lower standards. Faculty career flexibility policies and practices need to be projected and viewed by all faculty as critical tools for meeting work-life satisfaction, not just a perk for faculty who choose to have children.
