University of Rhode Island

Work-Life at URI:
401-874-5289
work-life@etal.uri.edu

The URI Work-Life Committee

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 has remained very active, meeting several times each semester and over the summer. In addition to dedicated volunteer efforts, funding from the ADVANCE program and an Elsevier Foundation grant has enabled many successful initiatives to further the work-life mission.

Future directions. A part-time work-life specialist position in the Office of Human Resources has been approved to begin sometime during the next year. This person will work in collaboration with the Work-Life Committee.

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
	Sharon Bell,CPA, CFA University Controller Room 110, Carlotti Building 75 Lower College Rd. 401.874.2378 sbbell@mail.uri.edu
	Sue Bergen Associate Athletics Director, Finance/SWA 3 Keeney Road 401.874.5396 sbergen@mail.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 dmichael@uri.edu
	Richard Scholl, Ph.D. Director, Schmidt Labor Research Center 36 Upper College Road 401.874.4347 rscholl@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 401.874.9422 silver@uri.edu
	Carolyn Sovet Director, URI Women’s Center 22 Upper College Road 401.874.5412 sovet@uri.edu