This presentation describes how to use the resources of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network to teach work and family classes. It highlights the resources that are most useful to the academic community.

1. Teaching Workshop Teaching About Work and Family Life www.bc.edu/wfnetwork Stephen Sweet Ithaca College Judi C. Casey Boston College Susan Lambert University of Chicago Christopher Morett Fordham University Margaret Usdansky Syracuse University Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Boston, MA August 2, 2008

6. Module: Surveying the Best of the Best: A Seminar Based on Research Articles Nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Work-Family Research

7. A Resource for Instruction and Learning

8. Course Syllabi

9. A Resource for Teachers and Students

10. Class and Workshop Activities

12. Work-Family Course Curricula Methodology: Content analysis work-family syllabi Sample: Syllabi accepted in ASA Resource Manual: Teaching Work-Family N=16 Note: Topics may be more frequently covered in classes than our observations indicate. Source: Sweet, Pitt-Catsouphes, Mumm and Casey (2007)

14. A Premier Destination For Work-Family Resources

15. Work-Family Encyclopedia

17. Chris Morett Fordham University Sociology and Anthropology

23. A Portal to Work-Family Research

28. A Source of Comprehensive Understanding

29. Using the Topics Pages

30. A Source for Definitions

31. A Source for Statistics

32. Identifying Legislation

33. Paths for Student Research

34. A Link To Social Networks Should you be listed among the “who’s who” of work-family leaders? Inquire to Judi Casey <caseyjt@bc.edu>

35. A Quick Means to Locate Facts

37. A Source For State Policy information

38. State Profiles

40. A Means to Locate Organizational Practices

41. A Means to Find News and Upcoming Events

42. The Network News

43. Number of Schools Programming of Work-Family In Course Offerings Methodology Content Analysis of college catalogues Sample: Random sample of 50 Carnegie Colleges & Universities with a high enrollment of undergrads Measures: A formal Work-Family course Work-Family embedded within a course Source: Sweet, Pitt-Catsouphes, Mumm and Casey (2007)