August 15, 2003

Parent-Friendly Policies

By ROBIN WILSON

Unlike larger universities, Michigan's Calvin College doesn't have a child-care center or on-campus rooms for nursing mothers. But it is unusual in allowing faculty parents at all ranks to work half or three-quarters time. Twelve professors are currently working a reduced load, including Debra Rienstra, an assistant professor of English. While pregnant with her third child, she wrote Great With Child: On Becoming a Mother (Tarcher/Putnam, 2002), about the spirituality of pregnancy and

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