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Remembering the “Life” in Academic Life: Finding a Balance between Work and Personal Responsibilities in the Academy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

Martha Ackelsberg ,
with Gayle Binion ,
Georgia Duerst-Lahti ,
Jane Junn ,
Laura Van Assendelft  and
Bang-Soon Yoon
Martha Ackelsberg
Affiliation:
Smith College
with Gayle Binion
Affiliation:
Smith College
Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Affiliation:
Smith College
Jane Junn
Affiliation:
Smith College
Laura Van Assendelft
Affiliation:
Smith College
Bang-Soon Yoon
Affiliation:
Smith College
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A senior male faculty member in a political science department discovers that his wife has cancer. She will need to undergo a combination of chemotherapy and radiation treatments over the next six months, treatments that will require her traveling to, and remaining overnight at, a hospital that is a 3-hour drive from the campus. Their only child lives over a thousand miles away.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 879 - 883
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© 2004 by the American Political Science Association

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