Archive for the 'Academic News' Category
Shortening the Road to the PhD
October 10th, 2007Princeton’s work on shortening the amount of time it takes to earn a PhD merited an article in the New York Times recently. Readers, what do you think of this? While I don’t think it’s useful for people to languish in graduate school, one drawback of this plan (and similar ones at other universities) is [...]
Calling All Academic Mothers
October 7th, 2007CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS…
Professor Andrea O’Reilly is beginning a three-year SSHRCC funded research project on the topic “Being a Mother in the Academe.” The project will be based on interviews with 50 mothers across Canada, the United States, and Australia.
The interview will be approximately 1-2 hours in length.
If you are interested in participating in the study, [...]
Time for Breastfeeding
September 28th, 2007From “Inside Higher Ed:”
“An appeals court in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that a breast-feeding mother who is a student at Harvard Medical School is entitled to extra time during a licensing exam so she can pump milk for her child, The Boston Globe reported.”
This story marks the first time I’ve been grateful for the format of [...]
Good News from Rutgers
August 21st, 2007We’re proud to note today that the university associated with our publisher, Rutgers, is making family life easier for their faculty:
Eight weeks paid leave from teaching and service obligations for both faculty and TA/GAs of any gender who become parents (biological or adoptive). For birth mothers, these eight weeks are in addition to the previous [...]
Making Academic Life Easier for Families
June 28th, 2007American Public Media’s Marketplace program recently ran a program on Higher Education Recruitment Consortiums (HERCs), organizations of schools within a region that share information about job openings, in order to recruit and keep candidates who have a spouse or partner’s career to consider, too. The goal of the regional HERCs (here’s a link to New [...]
Make Your Voice Heard!
June 7th, 2007Suniya Luthar, Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology Columbia University’s Teachers College, is gathering responses to a survey of Moms as People. Take some time to reflect on your experience and convey how this work affects your life. You can find the survey here.
More Good News
April 25th, 2007I love posting these updates! Check out the article in today’s Inside Higher Education with its wrap-up of changes at the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, Standford, Princeton and Yale to make those schools more family-friendly for graduate students and faculty.
Good news for Berkeley Graduate Students!
April 13th, 2007Berkeley’s Dean Mary Ann Mason is at the forefront in making the university a more family-friendly place, and we’re glad to read of this great new benefit for UCB graduate students. I hope that soon graduate students throughout the U.C. system can enjoy a paid maternity leave.
Women doctoral students at Berkeley who hold fellowships [...]
Good News for Graduate Students
April 7th, 2007Princeton University has just announced a new package of benefits designed to make family life easier on their graduate students. The benefits include 3 months of paid maternity leave (along with extensions of academic fellowships and deadlines); child care support; additional funds to pay for childcare; and even mortgage assistance.
Let’s hope other schools quickly follow [...]
Bring the Kids!
March 20th, 2007OK, so you’re a mama, and you’re in graduate school, or maybe you’re a professor, and you’re managing, with an intricate system of childcare arrangements, to teach, to research, and mother your child. As long as no one gets sick, and no one reschedules a meeting at the last minute, and no one’s car breaks [...]
