After 42 years of academic life—not counting five years spent getting a Ph.D.—I am hanging it up. A while back, I concluded that the conversation that I would most dread overhearing would be an alumna ...

Last summer — following three years on the academic job market and nine fruitless interviews, possessed at last of a Ph.D. in English literature that seemed, to borrow a phrase of Louis C.K.’s, “like ...

A lot of well-meaning academics like to say that doctoral education prepares you, not just for the professoriate, but for other careers, too. There’s just one problem with that message: Except for a ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In the spring of 2015, I resolved to stop being an adjunct professor. I had been given three classes ...

Conservatives have long complained that a rigid leftist monoculture has transformed colleges into centers of ideological indoctrination. As a hermetically sealed echo chamber, so the argument goes, ...

The world is exciting, complicated, and changing fast. At Academe of the Oaks, this global reality inspires a radical and relevant educational approach, emphasizing active involvement and creative ...