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From Spousal Hire to Single Mom

What happens when an academic couple breaks up, and the one who works part time needs a full-time job?

By ANNE TRUBEK

Three years ago, a reporter interviewed me for an article about professors who share tenure-track appointments (The Chronicle, December 8, 2000). "She has all the usual reasons for wanting to split an appointment," the article said of me, "a spouse in...

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