As tenure-track faculty members in higher education, we always have the notion of “publish or perish” at the front of our minds. But for those of us serving in competing, multiple roles in which full-time responsibilities to teaching, service, and scholarship combine with full-time administrative duties, job balance is elusive and daunting.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and