The Family Track
Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve
The struggle to find work-life balance in the university
Paper – $38
978-0-252-06694-8
Publication Date
Paperback: 04/01/1998
About the Book
The university is an ever more demanding arbiter and shaper of the lives of those it employs. 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?The Family Track 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 women and men from academia 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.
About the Author
Constance Coiner (d. 1996) was an associate professor of English at SUNY Binghampton. She is the author of Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. Diana Hume George is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. Her books include The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America.Related Titles
