Faculty are typically required to serve on university committees as part of their workload expectations. One university’s approach to supporting and fostering women in leadership was to create and financially fund a committee tasked with these efforts. The Advancing Women in Leadership (AWiL) committee at Concordia University Irvine (CUI) benefits from a mix of women in a range of roles to include faculty, staff, and administrators who work remotely and on campus. Committee members strategically represent a range of departments and schools from within the university at large. Taking a theory-to-practice approach, three members of AWiL combined individual leadership contexts and perspectives and worked together in support of larger goals and practical outputs.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and