Work and Family
Ann Harpold: Vertigo on the market (12/7/2005)
Lee Tobin McClain: Mom on sabbatical (12/2/2005)
Vera Taz: Not dead yet (10/24/2005)
David Latessa: From financial aid to fatherhood (10/19/2005)
Ann Harpold: Have baby, will travel (9/26/2005)
Balancing Act: Tenured and battered (9/9/2005)
Balancing Act: The dual-career divorce (8/1/2005)
Balancing Act: The womanly art of negotiation (7/22/2005)
Balancing Act: Getting back on track (7/6/2005)
Hannah Goodwin: The search that wasn't (6/23/2005)
Balancing Act: So, what's in it for me? (6/15/2005)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: Wake us when it's over (5/10/2005)
Vera Taz: The checkered game of academic life (5/5/2005)
It's all an illusion (4/12/2005)
When you don't fit in (3/30/2005)
Madison Randolph: Deadlines and due dates (2/24/2005)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: Up for tenure together (2/9/2005)
Balancing Act: Are your parental-leave policies legal? (2/7/2005)
Balancing Act: The bachelorette in academe (1/26/2005)
James M. Lang: Who really benefits? (1/25/2005)
Vera Taz: Flying lovers and ugly glasses (1/6/2005)
Jon T. Coleman: Part-time single parent (12/7/2004)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: 4th quarter and the home team's behind (11/23/2004)
Balancing Act: Cancer, children, and career (11/16/2004)
Balancing Act: Part-timers on the tenure track (10/14/2004)
Balancing Act: My accidental mentor (10/7/2004)
Graham Bennett and Jason Lindsey: Gay, Christian, and conservative (10/19/2004)
Scott Gac: On the market (9/29/2004)
Elizabeth Fleer: Ditch the boyfriend (9/28/2004)
Vera Taz: The trailing spouse track (9/22/2004)
Balancing Act: Stuck in transition (8/26/2004)
Balancing Act: Making time (7/29/2004)
James M. Lang: Taking care of your life (7/9/2004)
Balancing Act: Easing the grad-student baby blues (6/17/2004)
Ms. Mentor: Is my husband and academic failure? (6/1/2004)
Balancing Act: Falsely accused (5/26/2004)
Mandy Thomas: Two lives become one (5/20/2004)
Balancing Act: Not the catch (5/6/2004)
Thomas H. Benton: Real estate and your academic career (4/26/2004)
Career Talk: Was it a mistake to apply as a couple? (4/22/2004)
Joan C. Williams: Singing the grad-school baby blues (4/20/2004)
Tamantha Barbeau and Gregory Pryor: You can make it, too (4/15/2004)
Hannah Byers: The president's spouse (4/1/2004)
Laura Kellerman: 2 interviews, no offers (3/31/2004)
Balancing Act: The mommy candidate (3/30/2004)
Balancing Act: When a spousal hire becomes a single mom (2/20/2004)
Tamantha Barbeau and Gregory Pryor: A couple of worries (2/4/2004)
Balancing Act: Job sharing on the tenure track (2/3/2004)
Laura Kellerman: The Real World: Academic Job Search (1/29/2004)
Mandy Thomas: Never mind (1/20/2004)
Balancing Act: A family affair (11/24/2003)
Jason Stone: My imperfect search (11/12/2003)
Mandy Thomas: On the market (10/29/2003)
Balancing Act: When tenure isn't enough (10/28/2003)
Career Talk: Pregnant on the job market (10/23/2003)
Laura Kellerman: Will we make the grade? (10/8/2003)
Steve Pink: When good searches go bad (10/1/2003)
Balancing Act: Working part-time by choice (9/29/2003)
Max Clio: A historian adapts to his wife's cancer (9/24/2003)
Tamantha Barbeau and Gregory Pryor: Wanted: Two tenure-track jobs in zoology (9/17/2003)
Balancing Act: Parenting: maybe it is rocket science (9/3/2003)
Balancing Act: An academic life out of synch (8/4/2003)
Will Stallings: The faculty spouse: Finding friends and a job (7/10/2003)
Balancing Act: Giving birth in graduate school (7/7/2003)
Tom Willis and Helen Chapman-Willis: Finding the perfect match (6/25/2003)
Jeanne S. Zaino: Learning a little discipline (6/12/2003)
Balancing Act: A change of plans (6/9/2003)
Balancing Act: A trailing spouse salvages her career (5/12/2003)
Ms. Mentor: He doesn't like the Midwest (4/21/2003)
Balancing Act: The subtle side of discrimination (4/14/2003)
Jeanne S. Zaino: Skipping maternity leave to teach (4/3/2003)
Balancing Act: Using technology to prepare for family leave (3/17/2003)
Tom Willis and Helen Chapman-Willis: Meshing her offers with his (3/5/2003)
Balancing Act: How to cope on the market as an academic couple (2/17/2003)
Jeanne S. Zaino: Newly hired and pregnant (1/24/2003)
Tom Willis and Helen Chapman-Willis: She's getting callbacks and he's getting nervous (1/8/2003)
Sarah Penn: Giving birth to two lives (12/18/2002)
Balancing Act: A trailing spouse finds her way (12/9/2002)
Catalyst: A couple of scientists (11/19/2002)
Balancing Act: Your money or your time (11/11/2002)
Will Stallings: Settling in as a new faculty spouse (10/31/2002)
Tom Willis and Helen Chapman-Willis: Dreams and reality for an academic couple (10/16/2002)
Jeanne S. Zaino: Expecting on the tenure track (10/10/2002)
Karin Sconzert: Baking my way on the job market (10/7/2002)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: On the brink of stability (9/23/2002)
Charles E. Winchester: Unwilling to move (9/19/2002)
Sarah Penn: Facing the market and motherhood (9/18/2002)
Balancing Act: The worst question (9/9/2002)
Career Talk: Who's outing us as an academic couple ... and other readers' questions (9/6/2002)
Joel B. Peckham Jr.: An academic transient's tale (8/28/2002)
David Rivers: Was the move worth it? (8/22/2002)
James M. Lang: Thank God for school (8/13/2002)
Balancing Act: Don't go it alone (8/12/2002)
Jack Zibluk: Back where I started (8/1/2002)
Balancing Act: Bringing your work home (7/15/2002)
David Rivers: Starting over as a new assistant professor (6/25/2002)
Balancing Act: How academe treats mothers (6/17/2002)
Balancing Act: Great expectations (5/20/2002)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: Are we there yet? (5/10/2002)
David Rivers: Why I gave up tenure (5/3/2002)
Ms. Mentor: The new faculty wife (4/26/2002)
Balancing Act: Don't explain, don't complain (4/22/2002)
2 presidencies, 1 marriage (4/18/2002)
Pamela Johnston: Life without the sorting hat (4/17/2002)
Peter S. Cahn: An offer I can't refuse? (4/9/2002)
Michael Dalton: Moving on when your family wants to stay put (4/5/2002)
Thomas H. Benton: Being a professor and a parent (3/14/2002)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: Too much of a good thing (3/8/2002)
Balancing Act: The backlash against academic parents (2/22/2002)
Gale Walden: Hiding the baby (1/31/2002)
Balancing Act: Putting the AAUP's family-friendly policies into practice (1/28/2002)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: Are you coming back? (1/14/2002)
Balancing Act: 2001: a work-life space odyssey (12/17/2001)
Pamela Johnston: Being Dr. Mommy (11/27/2001)
Joshua Gordon and Kathleen Woods-Gordon: The importance of compromise (11/21/2001)
Balancing Act: The burden of a flexible schedule (11/12/2001)
Balancing Act: Lessons for academic parents (10/15/2001)
Balancing Act: Finding balance through disability (9/14/2001)
Going to the chapel (9/7/2001)
Beyond the Ivory Tower: The plight of the trailing partner (8/3/2001)
Balancing Act: Who cheats the childless? (6/22/2001)
Elizabeth Athelstand: The endless trade-offs of an academic marriage (6/8/2001)
Doug Risner: Two men and a teenager (5/18/2001)
Balancing Act: Coping with obstacles to a balanced life (4/27/2001)
Elizabeth Athelstand: Naked ambition and the art of marital compromise (4/13/2001)
Career Talk: When a better job for your partner means a worse one for you (3/23/2001)
Balancing Act: A chilly climate for fathers? (3/2/2001)
Elizabeth Martin: On the market with a second- and a third-body problem (2/9/2001)
Ms. Mentor: Pass the bylaws, honey (2/2/2001)
Balancing Act: The scholarly parent (1/5/2001)
Daniel Kowalsky: The socially alienated A.B.D. couple (12/15/2000)
Balancing Act: How the tenure track discriminates against women (10/27/2000)
Moving Up: Coupling and college administrators (10/6/2000)
Balancing Act: Setting boundaries in the ivory tower (9/8/2000)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #9): The last word (6/16/2000)
Pablo Mitchell (Diary #3): Getting a job (and a long-distance marriage) (3/31/2000)
Erin Keay (Diary #3): How to find a job (and not be a masochist) (3/17/2000)
Ms. Mentor: The caregiver and the critic (3/3/2000)
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Finding a balance between family and work (11/5/1999)
Ms. Mentor: Whose career should be No. 2? (7/16/1999)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #8): Our professional life: still a work in progress (5/7/1999)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #7): What we do for love (3/12/1999)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #6): A new balancing act (2/12/1999)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #5): An unexpected development (1/15/1999)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #4): Going on the market when you have a newborn (12/4/1998)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #3): What is the career price paid by couples who want to live together? (11/6/1998)
Career Talk: What to do about the "two-body problem" (10/16/1998)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #2): How a foundation grant enabled us to stay together (10/9/1998)
Angelica Lawson and Henry Byers (Diary #1): A watershed year? A husband-and wife team tries for the elusive pair of faculty jobs (9/11/1998)
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