Related Links
The NCAW staff has compiled a list of relevant online resources, grouped by the following categories:
- Information Sources and Publications
- Research Centers and Foundations
- Government Agencies
- Sloan Faculty Career Flexibility Awards
Information Sources and Publications
- Diverse Online
Website of the magazine (formerly known as Black Issues in Higher Education) that provides current news on public policy and other issues related to creating and maintaining a diverse higher education workforce. - AdjunctNation.com
Online resources related to Adjunct Advocate magazine, including job ads, news, polls, information on grants and classroom resources, etc. - Chronicle of Higher Education
Online edition of the weekly print magazine. - ERIC Database
Free, Web-accessible database of citations and abstracts for print and downloadable materials related to education at all levels in the United States and abroad, produced by the U.S. Department of Education. - Inside Higher Ed
Online source for news, opinions, and career information in higher education. - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Enormous dataset of institutional-level data on postsecondary education in the United States, collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Home to a searchable online data archive of social science research, based at the University of Michigan. - National Center for Education Statistics (Dept of Education)
Portal for statistics on higher education enrollment, outcomes, etc. - Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Peer-reviewed, quarterly, electronic journal. - Work Family Newsgroup
Email group on work-family issues moderated by Robert Drago, Pennsylvania State University.
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Research Centers and Foundations
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Workplace, Workforce and Working Families initiative funded this Clearinghouse and other projects related to work and families. - Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan
Center for research, service, and advocacy related to women's educational access, career and employment opportunities, leadership development and well-being; creators of the NCAW. - Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education
COACHE is a collaboration of colleges and universities committed to gathering the peer diagnostic and comparative data academic administrators need to recruit, retain, and develop the cohort most critical to the long-term future of their institutions. - Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
CHERI provides a vehicle for interdisciplinary research on higher education. CHERI's current research interests include the implications of the growing dispersion of wealth across academic institutions, the growing costs and importance of science to universities, the financial challenges facing public higher education, the changing nature of the faculty, governance in academic institutions, improving PhD programs in the humanities and associated social sciences, the supply of biomedical/physician researchers, and reducing inequality in access to higher education. - Families and Work Institute
Nonprofit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. - Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance
At the core of IHELG is the analytic study of postsecondary institutions -- with special emphasis on the legal issues that affect colleges and universities. - Institute for Higher Education Policy
non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to foster access and success in postsecondary education through public policy research and other activities. - National Center for Postsecondary Research
This center studies the effects of programs designed to help students make the transition to college and master basic skills needed to advance to a degree - Sloan Work and Family Research Network
Provides information and resource sharing on work and family issues. - The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Independent policy and research center focused on the improvement of teaching and learning. - TIAA-CREF Institute
Generates research and information on financial security and higher education issues.
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Government Agencies
- National Labor Relations Board
Website of the National Labor Relations Board, the US government agency that enforces the "National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector." Site is fully searchable and includes documents related to unions in higher education. - National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program
Portal for ADVANCE grant sites, NSF funded programs for the advancement of women in academic science and engineering. - U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Sloan Faculty Career Flexibility Awards
- Albright College
- Benedictine University
- Boise State University
- Bowdoin College
- Canisius College
- Dickinson College
- Duke University
- Iowa State University
- Iowa State University
- Lehigh University
- Middlebury College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Oberlin College
- Plymouth State University
- San Jose State University
- Santa Clara University
- Simmons College
- Smith College
- University of Baltimore
- University of California
- University of California - Berkeley
- University of California - Davis
- University of Florida
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Washington and Lee University
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