The URI Work-Life Committee includes a group of volunteer staff, faculty, and students who formed in 2003 due to the joint efforts of the URI NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program and the URI President’s Commission on the Status of Women. The Committee remains active, meeting throughout the year.  Its mission is to increase awareness about the importance of workplace flexibility and address the needs of our changing workforce by promoting work-life policies, programs, research, and best practices at URI and beyond. In addition to dedicated volunteer efforts, the work of the Committee has been enabled through funding from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program, the Elsevier Foundation, the URI Schmidt Labor Research Center, and the Division of Administration and Finance.

Contact us! Contact individual committee members below, or email: worklife@etal.uri.edu.

Members (2011 – 2012)

	Laura Beauvais, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Management Room 114, Green Hall, 35 Campus Avenue 401.874.4341 beauvais@uri.edu
	Matthew Bodah, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Economics Research Director, Schmidt Labor Research Center 807 Chafee Social Science Center 401.874.2497 mbodah@uri.edu
	Patricia Casey, CPA, CFE Associate Controller Room 103, Carlotti Bldg. 75 Lower College Rd. 401.874.4422 pcasey@mail.uri.edu
	Laura Kenerson Director, Personnel Services, Human Resource Administration 80 Lower College Rd. 401.874.5271 kenerson@uri.edu
	Helen Mederer, Ph.D. (Co-Chair) Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Anthropology Chaffee Social Science Center 401.874.4144 hmederer@uri.edu
	Doug Michael Assistant Director of Custodial Services Facility Services 523 Plains Road 401.874.2463 dougmichael@uri.edu
	Karen J. Sherman Department of Housing and Residential Life Roger Williams Commons, 18 Butterfield Road 401.874.5120 karen@uri.edu
	Barbara Silver, Ph.D. (Co-Chair) Research Coordinator, Schmidt Labor Research Center 36 Upper College Road 401.874.5289 silver@uri.edu