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No rest for the professors: Ambition and necessity mean summer work

Summer is no vacation anymore for those with career ambitions in academia. As teaching positions become more competitive and less secure, college-level educators are scrambling wherever they can to get an edge. Though this new reality bears its marks year-round, never is it more pronounced than now, when today’s frenzied research replaces the leisurely summer sojourns of yesteryear.