Just got this from my school's grad student parent list ( Read more... )

The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, invites applications for a full-time, tenure track assistant professorship in its School of Business.  Position to begin Fall 2008.  Ph.D. or DBA in Strategy, International Management, and/or Organizational Theory or a related field is required.  ABD’s will be considered if the expected completion date is no ( Read more... )

I am currently getting my Masters, and while my husband and I were planning on adopting, we are tentatively considering having a child.  But how can our careers ever match up so that we are always living in the same city?  When you are done with your doctorate in state A and get offered a teaching position in state B and your husband can't get a ( Read more... )

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I read this very interesting article (and this research study, if you can see it) from The Chronicle of Higher Education about how having a baby affects a woman's chance at a tenure-track position in academe.

This is something that has been on my mind for a while now.  My partner and I want at least one child.  I plan on going for my Ph.D. soon ( Read more... )

I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation yesterday afternoon!  7 long years have drawn to a close!

"Mental Briefcases and Virtual Diaper Pails: Work-Life Balance Revealed"
http://www.ocufa.on.ca/Academic_Matters_February2007/humour_matters.pdf

This is a great article to which I think all involved academic parents can relate...

Globe and Mail | Single Professor Yearns To Have Child

I thought that this article from Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper would be interesting to more than a few of you. It's about a single female professor @ McGill Univ. in Montreal & how/whether she can manage her finances and have a baby. In it she muses as to what's better: having a baby or a ( Read more... )

I consider myself a) a woman, and b) a member of an ethnic (or racial, where I come from) minority. I have a fairly complex and conflicted view of affirmative action in general -- this includes one or two experiences of wondering if I really and truly deserved some honor or whether maybe, just maybe the awarding of it made me a token of "how open ( Read more... )

I've got my NUS card, attached was a leaflet about applying for an NUS Extra card for a tenner. Is it worth it? Anyone else have one?