Archive for the 'Academic News' Category
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 [...]
Motherhood: The Elephant in the Laboratory
November 1st, 2006In the interest of reading more stories about how women attempt to combine family and work life, I’m posting this call for papers. Please respond to Emily Monosson at the email address below for more information.
I am editing a book about women, science and family, tentatively
titled Motherhood: The Elephant in the Laboratory. I think the [...]
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