Faculty Parent Support

Join by Zoom

Participate remotely using Zoom. Join anytime during the scheduled meeting by clicking this link. You may also sign in to Zoom and input the Meeting ID 927-6304-2832. Please note remote participation signifies agreement with the group Confidentiality Statement.

Faculty Parent Support in the News

The Chronicle of higher Education recently featured an article detailing how the Faculty Parent Support Group and convener Professor Emerita Diane Wolf advocate for faculty parents at UC Davis. Please click here to access the article.

Articles for Faculty with Small Children

Here are a list of articles that faculty with small children might find supportive.

The New York Time's How Can I Actually Get Work Done When the Kids Are Home?
The New York Time's Did American-Style ‘Gentle Parenting’ Spoil French Children?
The Guardian's Please, yell at my kids! Five lessons I’ve learned about good parenting from around the world
The Guardian's Mummy would Prefer You Not to do That. How no became a Dirty Word in Parenting by Nell Frizzell
The New York Time's Surgeon General: Parents Are at Their Wits’ End. We Can Do Better by Surgeon General and Vice Admiral of Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Vivek H. Murthy.
The Guardian's ‘I couldn’t be left alone with the kids’: When Parental Exhaustion Tips into Burnout by Deborah Linton

Doing It All When Your Children Are Small: A Support Group for Faculty Parents

Attention, faculty parents! The demands of parenthood can be overwhelming and the pandemic has only intensified these challenges. Faculty parents are not only teaching courses, trying to write and conduct research, but also caring for and schooling their children. Do you sometimes feel as though you’ll never sleep again, let alone have a clear intellectual thought? Does publishing seem like a pipe dream? You are not alone.

Each quarter, we will host two drop-in Zoom support group meetings at various days to accommodate faculty parent schedules. Meet and connect with other faculty as we share ideas and strategies for engaging in research and writing while parenting. Please feel free to join these web meetings at any time between 12-1pm and for as little or as long as you like. The meetings are open to UC Davis and UC Irvine faculty parents.

All parents are welcome, as are their children!

Fall 2026 Schedule

Day/date TBD, 12-1pm
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Day/date TBD, 12-1pm
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The convener of the Faculty Parent Support Group, Professor Emerita Diane Wolf, is also available for one-on-one confidential consultations to fit your schedule, including faculty parent of all school-age children. Please contact her directly via email at [email protected].

For additional information and all other inquiries, please contact Diane Wolf, [email protected], or Brad Horton, Program Coordinator for Faculty Relations and Development, [email protected].