THE TICKING OF THE BIOLOGICAL AND TENURE CLOCKS.

UNIVERSITY faculty; PARENTAL leave; PRINCETON University; COLLEGE teachers -- Leaves of absence; TENURE of college teachers

The article focuses on the efforts of Princeton University in New Jersey to ease the burden for assistant professors who are new parents. The university institutes new policy, making the school a family-friendly workplace. Some members of the faculty are reluctant to request for an extension of the tenure clock. The number of female faculty at Princeton has increased slowly but steadily between 1992 and 2002.