The Faculty Parent

Mar 153 min read

Introducing the Rutgers-Newark Caregivers Resource Portal!

Check out our new website for RU-N Caregivers here. In September 2020, the P3’s then-Scholar-in-Residence Patricia Akhimie launched a new...

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Nov 27, 20237 min read

Envisioning a Family Friendly Campus (again!)

While The Faculty Parent most often centers the working lives of faculty parents and caregivers, this blog entry by Catherine Clepper ...

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Apr 18, 20234 min read

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children

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Oct 3, 20225 min read

Pandemic Babies

How a Workplace can Ease the Difficulties of Pandemic Parenting, or Make Them Worse

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Jun 27, 20224 min read

The Summertime Hustle (a blog post written while hiding)

Being a faculty-parent in the the summertime sometimes means being everything to everyone while any- and everywhere.

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Feb 8, 20224 min read

Where We Are Now, Still, & Again

I somehow can’t quite believe where we are now, again. In the first week of Spring 2022, I had two kids at home, again, every single day...

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Dec 6, 20217 min read

Parents Everywhere: Envisioning a Family Friendly Campus

This month’s blog entry imagines ways that faculty-, staff-, and student-parents might work together to increase both the visibility...

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Nov 2, 20216 min read

Adult Caregiving and Higher Education

In this month’s “Faculty Parent” post, Dr. Takashi Amano (Social Work, SASN) shares some recent research (including his own!) around...

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Aug 17, 20217 min read

At Home Contingency Plans

How is your pandemic parenting going? "The Faculty Parent" series chronicles the highs and lows of juggling parenting, teaching,...

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Apr 25, 20216 min read

Spring, Breaking: Kids, Mental Health, and the Darker Side of Being Home Together

This year spring break was not just a “break” that wasn’t really a break. In fact, it was all about breaking.

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