To achieve and maintain the excellence they desire, American universities and colleges increasingly recognize that they must recruit and retain the best faculty, staff and students. One significant way of doing this is by providing innovative work-family policies and practices. This groundbreaking book by Jaime Lester and Margaret Sallee documents the advances made by leading colleges and universities to become genuinely family-friendly campuses and in so doing position themselves on the path to excellence."-Kathleen Christensen, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

This book documents the "best practices" currently in use at institutions across the United States so readers no longer have to develop practices in isolation, and without evidence of their effectiveness.