1st Edition
Work-Life Balance in Higher Education
Finding balance: An introduction to Work- Life Balance in Higher Education
Bruce D. McDonald III and William Hatcher
Part I: Framing work- life balance
1. Academics of PA or: How we learned to stop working and find some balance
Josephine Gatti Schafer, William Hatcher and Bruce D. McDonald III
2. Life and work: Always choosing
Rosemary O’Leary and Rita M. Hilton
Part II: Addressing work- life balance
3. Examining junior faculty work- life balance in public affairs programs in the United States
Lauren Azevedo, Wanzhu Shi, Pamela S. Medina and Matt T. Bagwell
4. Investigating faculty motivation and its connection to faculty work- life balance: Engaging public service motivation to explore faculty motivation
Michelle C. Pautz and Morgan D. Vogel
5. Work- life balance and well- being of graduate students
Juita- Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Marina Saitgalina and David W. Chapman
6. Hyper- separation as a tool for work/ life balance: Commuting in academia
Margaret W. Sallee and Danielle V. Lewis
7. Reflections on tenure, the two- body problem, and retention in the 21st century academy
Samantha June Larson, Annie Miller and Ida Drury
8. Implementing specifications grading in MPA courses: A potential strategy for better work- life balance
Peter A. Jones
Biography
Bruce D. McDonald III is Associate Professor of Public Budgeting and Finance at NC State University. He is the editor-in-chief of Public Administration, the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education and is general editor for the Routledge Public Affairs Education Book Series.
William Hatcher is Professor of Public Administration and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Augusta University. He also serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education and is general editor for the Routledge Public Affairs Education Book Series.
