Donna Bickford is the Director of the Women's and Gender Resource Center at Dickinson College.

Bickford, Donna, and Anne M. Whisnant. UNC Staff with PhDs Seek Support for Research. InTouch: UNC Employee Forum News Spring/February 2014.

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While “faculty” and “staff” are overarching categories for university employees, a group of EPA Non- Faculty staff members who occupy an interesting space in between have recently formed an “Altac” (alternative academic) Working Group. The “altac” term generally refers to a sub-set of the growing number of Ph.D.-prepared professionals who are locked out — or have opted out — of faculty careers, but continue to work within the university in professional staff positions.

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