{"id":1351,"date":"2008-06-02T22:53:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2008-06-02T22:53:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:53:12","slug":"academic-offspring-terminology-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Academic offspring terminology needed"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of my colleagues at USF gave birth over the weekend, and coming on the heels of a few engagement announcements, it’s another bit of welcome news. The world needs that, I think.<\/p>\n

One of the great changes in academe over the past half-century is that institutions are becoming more accommodating of family life. Not that<\/i> much in the U.S., compared to other countries (see yesterday’s entry on busy academics<\/a>), but over the 12 years I’ve been at USF, department colleagues have had or adopted over a dozen children, a few colleagues have become grandparents, and there have been plenty of graduate students who have had children while in our department. Especially in a college of education, that keeps us honest. <\/p>\n

I know my own children are cynical about my academic pursuits, in part because they are teenagers and cynical about a lot<\/i> of my life and in part because they’ve heard my spouse and I chat about work and pick up the work politics. So what is the right term for children of faculty? There should be one, to parallel military brat<\/i> or red-diaper baby<\/i>. Book brood<\/i> just doesn’t seem right. Suggest terms in the comments!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my colleagues at USF gave birth over the weekend, and coming on the heels of a few engagement announcements, it’s another bit of welcome news. The world needs that, I think. One of the great changes in academe over the past half-century is that institutions are becoming more accommodating of family life. Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-lN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}