Hiring Bytes

• What’s wrong with higher education? Too many administrators, write Andrew Hacker, a sociology professor at Queens College of CUNY, and Claudia Dreifus, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, in an essay in The New York Times.

• Gay and lesbian workers are at last eligible for family and medical leave to care for sick or newborn children of their domestic partners, The Juggle reports.

• Audrey Williams June, a reporter for The Chronicle, notes that there’s at least one good place to be an adjunct.

• Via Work Matters comes word of a finding that it may pay to get a little angry when it comes to negotiating—unless you’re negotiating with someone of East Asian descent.

• Dr. Brazen Hussy finds that breaking up isn’t always hard to do.

• Am I too fat to get hired? a poster asks Evil HR Lady. Her answer: Probably.