num_pages: 344
description:      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 
language: English
title: The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve
titlecomplete: The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve
ratings_count: 5
publisher: University of Illinois Press