Extensive research suggests that ideal worker and mothering expectations have long constrained academic mothers' personal and professional choices. This article explores how academic mothers experienced their dual roles amid the unprecedented shift in the work-life landscape due to COVID-19. Content analysis of questionnaire data (n = 141) suggests that academic mothers experienced significant bidirectional work-life conflict well into the fall of 2020. Increased home demands, such as caring for young children and remote schooling, interfered with their perceived capacity to meet ideal academic norms, including a singular focus on work, productivity standards, and their ability to signal job competency and commitment. Likewise, work demands reduced their perceived ability to meet ideal mothering norms, such as providing a nurturing presence and focusing on their children's achievement. Academic fathers experienced increased demands on their time but primarily described intrarole conflict within the work domain. Despite a pandemic landscape, ideal academic and mothering norms remained persistent and unchanged. The article concludes with implications for policy and practice in higher education.

This qualitative study explored the views of spouse carers in relation to the emotional impact of caring for a partner with a chronic or terminal illness. The study population consisted of nine full-time spouse carers, recruited using a snowball sampling strategy. Semi-structured interviews took place in the carers' homes. These were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The data were then analysed using constant comparative analysis. Themes identified included the emotional and physical health of the carer, personality changes in the spouse, relationship issues, denial, anticipating death, accessing support and coping strategies. Findings indicate that these carers experienced a whole range of feelings and emotions, which impacted on their health and wellbeing. They included fatigue, stress, distress, anxiety, depression, feelings of isolation and suicidal thoughts. These were particularly profound around the time of diagnosis, end of treatment, during a relapse and most particularly around the time of death. An increasing number of terminally ill people are now expressing a preference to be cared for at home. The potential risks to the health of caregivers therefore need to be taken into account. This study highlights the importance of assessing the needs of carers in order to identify those at risk of compromised health, which would then allow those requiring support to be offered prompt referral to specialist services.

The results suggest that the proportion of IMGs in a residency program is a significant factor in program selection and is as important as previously established factors such as program reputation. Students, however, do not acknowledge the importance of this factor. Program directors and governing bodies may want to consider these findings when evaluating the impact and distribution of IMGs in U.S. training programs.

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The purpose of this multiple case study was to examine the ways in which six Hispanic, English-Spanish bilingual college students and college graduates used nonstandard writing (digitalk) to communicate through Facebook status updates and their reasons for doing so. The study consisted of three sources of data: Facebook status updates, one-on-one interview responses, and group interview responses. Based on an analysis of the data, it is probable that participants engaged in digitalk in both English and Spanish to achieve a variety of purposes. The similarities found between participants' English and Spanish digitalk may be indicative of participants' reliance on what Cummins (1991) refers to as Common Underlying Proficiencies in which languages rely on a single processing system.