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Starting a family in grad school
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Work and Family Life
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By chawne
Posted Tue Apr 20, 2004 at 04:37:43 AM PDT
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There's lots of information out there about how starting a family early in one's career can be detrimental. This article from The Chronicle goes back to discover the effects of having babies while still in grad school.
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| Referring to the Mason article mentioned here about how babies impact tenure prospects, the author takes the investigation further back to see how having children earlier in the academic career can be detrimental.
"Are the students' fears legitimate? In fact, Drago found that graduate students with children are less likely to end up at research universities. 'There is definitely a penalty,' he concluded.
The issue has come up repeatedly in a project at Michigan State University that helps graduate students resolve conflicts with faculty memmbers. John Beck, a professor of labor relations there, and Karen Klomparens, dean of the graduate school, have developed videos presenting some common scenarios. In one, a graduate student who is a single parent cancels a discussion session because of a sick child. Her professor confronts her, pointing out that this is the third time she has canceled, and tells her that if things do not improve she may not be assigned a section next semester."
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