Maintaining the quality of one's marriage, personal life, sexual
relationships, etc. is not an employer's, University's, Department's,
the tax-payer's (for public institutions and those who receive
government grants/funds) or even society's responsibility. The stake
holders here are not just that family and those they work with - the
nation and world depend on the fruits of intellectual pursuit at
Universities - science such as biomedical discoveries, engineering,
education, etc. The stakes are just too high to not pursue the highest
germane standards based on emotional or nepotistic considerations.
On 8/20/2011 10:05 AM, Gary Grossman wrote:
I hope that some day we have a society that values ecologists as much as it
values medical doctors and that everyone has a job!
Only married ones, right? :)
Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
http://www.allthingsbugs.com/Curriculum_Vitae.pdf
On 8/20/2011 10:05 AM, Gary Grossman wrote:
As someone who
was hired in the pre-spousal hire era I've watched many marriages and
families dissolve under the pressure of jobs in separate cities, etc. I've
also seen faculty who spent a substantial amount of time interviewing at
other institutions, rather than focusing on teaching and research, because
no provision was made for their well qualified spouse.
On 8/20/2011 10:05 AM, Gary Grossman wrote:
Might a University be better off if
there was an open search (my guess is that at most universities the spousal
hire isn't an open search) -- probably from the disciplinary point of view
but then from a personnel management and teaching point of view they get
much greater stability and dedication from "couple hires".
