Making Academic Life Easier for Families

June 28th, 2007

American Public Media’s Marketplace program recently ran a program on Higher Education Recruitment Consortiums (HERCs), organizations of schools within a region that share information about job openings, in order to recruit and keep candidates who have a spouse or partner’s career to consider, too. The goal of the regional HERCs (here’s a link to New England’s) is to help keep families together.

We’d love to see the end of the academic commuter marriage; tell us, Mama PhDs, have you used an HERC?

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