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The Family Track

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The Family Track Synopsis

     How do the necessities of caring for others deter, benefit, or redefine         research and teaching in higher education? What have universities done         to recognize the difficulties facing academic parents, single mothers         and fathers, graduate students, lesbian and gay couples? What pro-family         policies can be enacted during institutional budget crises?       At a time when the academy is an ever more demanding arbiter and shaper         of the lives of those it employs, The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties         While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve discusses the challenges         and benefits of balancing a rewarding professional life with the competing         needs to nurture children, care for aging parents, and engage in other         personal relationships. Here academic women and men explore issues that         include biological and tenure clocks, childcare and eldercare, surrogate         parenting of students, and increasing job demands. In telling stories         about the quality of their lives, they express their hopes, anxieties,         difficulties, and personal strategies for maintaining a delicate but achievable         balance.       "Lively, well-written, useful, and persuasive ? The Family         Track reveals much on family roles within the academy and suggests         many specific projects and guidelines for Institutional change."         -- Judith Kegan Gardiner, editor of Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency         in Theory and Practice  

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ISBN: 9780252066948
Publication date: 1st April 1998
Author: Constance Coiner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 344 pages
Genres: Education