Iowa State University
College of Human Sciences


Research Institute for Studies in Education

The Flexible Faculty Career Study

 
The Flexible Faculty Career Database project, funded in part by an Alfred P. Sloan grant, was a joint effort by the Iowa State University (ISU) Office of the Provost and the Office of Institutional Research to design new ways to track how improved tenure-track flexibility at ISU affects faculty productivity, retention, and work/life balance satisfaction. This project used institutional data to examine whether any savings realized by improved faculty retention justify the costs of providing tenure-track flexibility at ISU. A report is in the final draft stage and will be released in the 2007-2008 academic year. Data collection will be ongoing over the next few years to identify trends.
 

 
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