Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting

June 20, 2022 00:34:40
Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting
The Professor Is In
Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting

Jun 20 2022 | 00:34:40

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Show Notes

Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple weeks–once in Nature, once in the Chronicle — about mass resignations by tenured folks, and the new Professor Is Out community on FB. COVID was the final straw–adding actual physical harm to the decades […]

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