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Goodbye Ivory Towers

Between Grief and Freedom: What My Dear Friend Taught Me About Getting to the Other Side of Academia

By Guest Author | February 17, 2022

by Dr. Elana Jefferson-Tatum Dr. Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Ph.D. is hypnobirthing coach, full-spectrum doula, and practitioner-scholar of Africana religions. After several years in the academy teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and then Tufts … [Read more...] about Between Grief and Freedom: What My Dear Friend Taught Me About Getting to the Other Side of Academia

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Black Lives Matter, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Professor Is In HAS Changed, Part II, or I Don’t Give a Flying Fuck What You Wear

By Karen Kelsky | January 21, 2022

[Also originally shared on FB] Sharing a thought (adapted from a FB comment below):   This whole recent kerfluffle about wHaT Is tHe PoInT oF tHiS [FB] pAge, a version of which arises about 2x a year, is so weird to me. I've always held … [Read more...] about The Professor Is In HAS Changed, Part II, or I Don’t Give a Flying Fuck What You Wear

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Professor Is In HAS Changed; You’re Not Imagining It

By Karen Kelsky | January 20, 2022

[This was posted originally on Facebook. See the original post here.] This is probably a good time to make something explicit that has been implicit for about a year now. I think academia is quite toxic for many - and actively sickifying … [Read more...] about The Professor Is In HAS Changed; You’re Not Imagining It

Filed Under: Advising Advice, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

The Great Resignation and Academic Gaslighting

By Karen Kelsky | January 19, 2022

Various twitter pundits are self-importantly stating that the Great Resignation will never hit academia, because nobody would give up an academic job.  17K members of the Professor Is Out Facebook private group would say otherwise, friends. Other … [Read more...] about The Great Resignation and Academic Gaslighting

Filed Under: COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

How I Left Academia – Guest Post

By Guest Author | January 5, 2022

By Anonymous.   I taught at five different universities over a ten year period, across five different countries. I never had tenure, just a bunch of shorter-term positions. I loved the travel of my job, and often visited remote locations … [Read more...] about How I Left Academia – Guest Post

Filed Under: Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Rearview Mirror

Romancing the Academy for Fun and Profit, Part II – Novelist Guest Post

By Guest Author | November 18, 2021

Cover of Meet Me In Madrid

By Verity Lowell. Verity Lowell is a professor and occasional curator. She likes imagining and describing a world where art, ambition, and history provide the background for diverse and steamy love stories, mostly about women falling hard for … [Read more...] about Romancing the Academy for Fun and Profit, Part II – Novelist Guest Post

Filed Under: Goodbye Ivory Towers, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Racism in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia

Why Is It Always the Historians?

By Karen Kelsky | October 4, 2021

"Why is it always the historians?" I muttered to myself after another little dustup on Twitter, another historian posting some jaunty, gaslighting, evasive, disaster-normalizing, "fellow-historians, give me your best advice for advisees applying to … [Read more...] about Why Is It Always the Historians?

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Graduate Student Concerns, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

#NotDyingToTeach

By Karen Kelsky | September 29, 2021

#NotDyingToTeach #ProfessorIsOut I spend a lot of time on Twitter and these days, you can't go a day without seeing another academic--often a tenured prof--announcing their departure from academia. We really are in a Great Resignation. While I have … [Read more...] about #NotDyingToTeach

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

The Professor Gets On LinkedIn

By Karen Kelsky | September 13, 2021

Are you looking at the shitshow that is the '21-'22 academic year and saying, no more?  Are you just... done?  If so, you're in good company. Our relatively new, private FB Mutual Support Group, The Professor Is Out, has been around for less than a … [Read more...] about The Professor Gets On LinkedIn

Filed Under: Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Nice Kitty – The Professor is Zen Guest Post II

By Guest Author | September 7, 2021

by Esther Freinkel Tishman, PhD, BCC (she/her) Esther Freinkel Tishman, Ph.D, BCC is an ordained Zen teacher, a full-time interfaith chaplain, a scholar of archetypes and religion, and a certified mindfulness instructor. She is also a former dean, … [Read more...] about Nice Kitty – The Professor is Zen Guest Post II

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Rearview Mirror

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