Symposium fosters network to facilitate dual-career hiring

Yael Levitte, associate vice provost for faculty development and diversity, leads a discussion Nov. 9 at Cornell's Dual Career Symposium in King-Shaw Hall. Many new faculty hired at Cornell have a spouse or partner who needs an academic or professional job for the couple to agree to come to Cornell. But where are the career opportunities for those partners' Faculty positions for a candidate's spouse or partner are limited in Ithaca. It's a thorny question facing higher ed institutions around the country. A 2008 Stanford University study found that more than 70 percent of faculty members have an employed partner, and more than 35 percent have a partner who's an academic. 'We hear from our department chairs that this is becoming a challenging issue in recruitment,' said Yael Levitte, associate vice provost for faculty development and diversity.