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Leaving Academe Is Fine, But What About Your Kids?
Liz Haswell and Joshua Doležal on sending their kids into the system they left
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book II, Chapters 6-10
The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten. One result of this family solidarity was that the…
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The Best Metaphors Are Epiphanies
I’ve been attending a Quaker meeting since last August, a gathering that observes an hour of silence. It is nearly as opposite as it could be from the…
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book II, Chapters 1-5
Before I knew Lena, I thought of her as something wild, that always lived on the prairie, because I had never seen her under a roof. Her yellow hair was…
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The boy is father to the man
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Academe is suffering from foreign occupiers
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The Best Metaphors Are Epiphanies
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What Role Do Fathers Play in Feminism?
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Academe to industry

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Make Work Work Better For You
Leslie Wang on how to suffer less in academe or beyond it
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Public Thread: Teaching As A Business Skill
During my conversation with Kate Rogers earlier this week, I was struck by her ability to transfer a mentorship ethos from academe to industry. Kate’s…
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How A Psychology Professor Got Hired At Zillow
Kate Rogers on her pivot from academe to industry
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Higher ed

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Leaving Academe Is Fine, But What About Your Kids?
Liz Haswell and Joshua Doležal on sending their kids into the system they left
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Exit Interview
A. Jay Adler on leaving academe
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Does Your News Feed Pass The SMELL Test?
Friends, My mother is in town this week, so I’m sharing an updated piece from the archive. It should be new to at least half of you. I’m reminded every…
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The Recovering Academic
The Recovering Academic
Notes on life after academe with exclusive interviews, essays, and craft resources.
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