October 3, 2003

When Good Searches Go Bad

By STEVE PINK

Hired as a gay-studies expert, a Ph.D. finds the university's interest in him does not extend to his partner

When I entered graduate school, my English department (unlike many others) readily disabused its students of the notion that we would all secure academic jobs. We knew, early on, that finding a job was the exception, not the rule. I was prepared, therefore, for the various professional challenges that accompanied my first foray onto the job market last year. What I had not

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