Strategy One: Dual-Career Services

Objective

The Dual-Career Services Strategy at Gannon addresses the recruitment and retention objective through tparticipation in the Ohio-Western Pa-West Virginia Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC; https://www.hercjobs.org/oh-western-pa-wv/index.html). As a result, accompanying partners of Gannon University employees have greater opportunities to find suitable employment.

Champions

• Elisa M. Konieczko, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Professor
• Theresa M. Vitolo, Ph.D., retired.

Strategy Foundation Sources

The strategy draws on the success of the following ADVANCE programs:

• University of Rhode Island
  • http://www.uri.edu/advance/work_life_support/dual_career_partners.html
  •  http://www.uri.edu/advance/files/pdf/Dual%20Career%20Assist%20Program%2002-05-08%20%28Final%29.pdf
   
• Grinnell College in conjunction with University of Iowa
  •  http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/humanresources/dual-career-network
  •  http://www.uiowa.edu/~dcn/index.shtml
   
• University of Washington 
  •  http://advance.washington.edu/about/overview.html
   
•  University of Michigan
  •  http://sitemaker.umich.edu/advance/home