2008 Dual Career Conference

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2008 Dual Career Conference

Welcome to the 2008 Dual Career Conference website.

This year's conference was held on the campus of The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday and Friday, June 19 and 20, 2008. Thirty-three dual career professionals from the United States, Canada and Germany participated.

We hope that you will join us in 2009 for the 6th annual Dual Career Conference to be held at Virginia Tech (to be confirmed).

If you wish to be notified of the 2009 Dual Career Conference and join the Higher Education Dual Career Network, send an email to dualcareers@umich.edu. You will be added to the a ListServe which can also be used to post questions regarding dual career services to the members.

For those who were not able to attend, the materials from the conference are posted below. Some items are not listed per the request of the presenter.

• ApplicantSearch: Winning Both Sides of the Skilled Applicant Shortage (powerpoint)
  Presenter: John W. Howard, Ph.D., Performance Resources, LLC
  
  
• Survey Results from the Study of Dual-Career Academic Couples (powerpoint)
  Presenter: Andrea Henderson, Stanford University
  Per the request of the Clayman Institute, this study will be available in July.
  
  
• Update on the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) (powerpoint)
  Presenters: Nancy Aebersold, National Higher Education Consortium and Mary Everley, University of Minnesota
  
  
• List of Attendees and Program Information (excel spreadsheet)