The structures and cultures of many higher education workplaces reflect particular ideas about faculty as “ideal workers,” workers entirely committed to paid employment with no caregiving responsibilities. Yet, most faculty members care for children, partners, parents, and/or other extended family members. These care responsibilities further reflect gendered and racialized differences, with women and faculty of color often facing particularly persistent care demands. This chapter considers caregiving responsibilities and their impacts on faculty work intersectionally. We theorize academia as a racialized and gendered organization with embedded assumptions, describing the structural limitations that faculty caregivers face, as well as the cultural challenges they experience, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explore how a range of care policies and changes in cultural ideas about faculty work help create support for caregiving faculty—as well as unintended consequences. Finally, we identify both conceptual issues and methodological issues that have limited our overall understanding of how to create more supportive environments for faculty caregivers. We recommend strategies in future research and scholarship on faculty caregivers in higher education that will strengthen the field. In addition, we make practical recommendations for how institutions can best support faculty caregivers.