Have you ever dreamed of a job where you worked on a tree-lined campus, hung around the library, had deep conversations with the interesting people you worked with, influenced young minds and had both a month off at Christmas and three months off in the summer to boot? If you're under 35, you imagine being an advocate for students fighting an insensitive bureaucracy and those over 40 you relish being able to complain about the current crop of students who are invariably either more rebellious, docile, arrogant, ignorant, drunk, or fundamentalist than you and your college cronies were back in the day.
The truth is, (spoiler alert) while being a college professor really is a great gig - it's not great for the reasons most people think. Even being a part-timer or adjunct (which is the vineyard where I'm currently stomping) is pretty decent, though their ivory tower is just as likely to be in a suburban strip mall or online. In this blog I plan to show the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly about American higher education. I also plan to show some of the funny things (OK, a LOT of the funny things) that happen there, have happened there, or could happen there. Whether you consider yourself a loud lauder of the liberal arts (history, English, psychology) or a proud practitioner of the practical arts (business, computer science, engineering), I welcome your readership and your comments.
So c'mon you polymaths - you know who you are - jump on board this peace train of mixed metaphors!
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