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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Midlife as a Consultant
Midlife as a Consultant
I ended my professorial career in much the way I started it: fired with enthusiasm.1 The president and provost at Boston University did not favor my work, politics, or manner; nor did it help matters when I called the head of the university's committee a “pinhead” when I was asked to dot i's and cross t's in my tenure dossier. Looking back, I'm glad to be out of the place (and they rid of me!), but it was angering and deflating at the time (7 years ago).
If truth be told, I would not have given me tenure either. Oh, my scholarship was fine, teaching innovative, and service, discounting churlishness, a step above acceptable. The problem was that, ...
