Rumblings of graduate student unionization often elicit grave predictions from faculty and administrators. They suggest that if graduate students unionize, the mentoring relationship between students and faculty advisers will inevitably be disrupted and that unionization will precipitate significant decreases in the number of positions available, as teaching assistants (TAs) and research assistan...
For some faculty members, taking a year away from their research can be an invaluable opportunity to learn new skills, develop valuable contacts, and experience life outside academia. That certainly was the case for Ann Kinzig, a junior faculty member in urban ecology at Arizona State University (ASU), who spent the 1998-99 academic year in Washington, D.C., as a Roger Revelle Fellow in Global St...
