2017 Annual Conference Materials
Program Agenda
Wednesday, May 10
8:30 – 4:00 |
CUWFA Board of Directors’ meeting |
1:30 – 3:30 |
Tour of Brown University |
4:00 – 5:00 |
New-member meeting (Board to join meeting at 4:30) |
5:30 – 6:45 |
Roundtable Discussions (2-40 min sessions with transition time)
- Tides in developing a new faculty mentoring program, Jennifer Hudson
- Designing retirement programs to support individual transitions for faculty and staff, including work/life professionals – and strengthen our institutions, Carol Hoffman, Kathy Simons
- Campus-wide approach for recruiting international faculty, Phyllis Brust, Mary Everley, Sara Ermeti
- Increasing work-life effectiveness of low wage earners on campus, Audrey Adelson
- Best practices and new innovations in lactation support, Meg Stoltzfus and Michele Vancour
- Elder care: The new challenge for employed adult children in higher education, Helen Mederer and Barb Silver
- Creating a culture to support US military veterans and their families, Amanda Chavez
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7:00 – 9:00 |
Evening Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres |
Thursday, May 11
6:30 – 7:00 |
Yoga |
7:30 – 8:30 |
Breakfast – visit vendors |
8:30 – 8:45 |
Opening/Welcome |
8:45 – 10:00 |
Keynote: Brad Harrington, The Evolving Challenges for Work-Life Professionals, introduced by Sara-Jane Finlay |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Break, visit vendors (30 min) |
10:30 – 12:00 |
Breakout sessions (90-minute Sessions)
- Civility in academia: How can work-life programming contribute to civility and inclusivity initiatives? Ann Kitalong Will
- Child Care Stress! Rising expectations, limited resources, Kathy Simons, Lesley Lundeen, Jennie McAlpine, Raju Parikh
- Mentoring for the long haul: How to support tenure-track faculty, Jennifer Ivers, Sindhumathi Revuluri
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12:00 - 1:30 |
Lunch (90 min includes 30 min lunch and 60-minute membership meeting) |
1:30 – 2:30 |
Breakout Sessions (60-minute Sessions)
- Paving a new leadership path: Tailoring work-life supports for women’s advancement in highereducation, Michele Vancour
- A strategic partnership: Designing an effective EAP for faculty and staff, Lori Anne Henderson and Alan Levin
- The RFP process: How to do it ethically, Gretchen Anderson
- Student parents in the Northeast: What is the role of work-life and women’s centers? Autumn Green and Isis Patterson
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Break, visit vendors (30 min) |
2:45 – 3:00 |
Deskercise |
3:00 – 4:15 |
Breakout Sessions (75-minute Sessions)
- A roadmap to developing effective employee work-life benefits communications, Ronnie Mae Weiss, Maura Rizzuto and Al Venditto
- Cornell University’s remote work pilot program and research study: Faculty collaboration, leadership buy-in, implementation and results, Michelle Artibee
- Parental leave in higher education: A summary of policies, practices, and a proposal, Barbara Roberts and Caitlin Azhderin
- Is your campus family friendly? Research results and toolkit regarding students who are parents, Elizabeth Oshe
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4:15 – 5:30 |
Break, visit vendors (75 min) |
5:30 and 6:00 |
Buses leave for Cocktail reception, dinner and entertainment |
Friday, May 12
7:30 – 8:30 |
Breakfast – visit vendors |
8:30 – 8:45 |
Opening/Welcome |
8:45 – 10:00 |
Keynote: Ellen Bravo, Time to Care: What's the Outlook for Paid Leave in the U.S.? Introduced by Lori Anne Henderson |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Break, visit vendors (30 min) |
10:15 – 10:30 |
Progressive Muscle Relaxation |
10:30 – 11:30 |
Breakout sessions (60-minute Session)
- Map it! The University of Arizona’s family resource map and Michigan State University’s breastfeeding room location map, Caryn Jung, Lori Strom and Michele Vancour
- Michigan Technological University’s Work-Life based mentoring: Whole-life mentoring, lessons learned and where to go from here, Ann Kitalong Will
- Cultural conceptions of caregiving – understanding the paradigms, Helen Mederer and Barb Silver
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Breakout sessions (60-minute Session)
- Empowering parents: Creating, leveraging and managing strong parent networks, Phyllis Stewart Pires and Lucy English
- Dual Career Innovation: A regional collaborative approach, Angela McNerney and Kathy McNamara
- Proposal
- Handout
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12:30 – 2:00 |
Lunch with activity to process and plan – CUWFA Executive Committee |
2:00 |
Closing |
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