For New Ph.D.'s Who Must Lower Their Sights, Some Lessons From an Earlier Generation

When the academic job market is particularly tough, graduates from doctoral programs at the nation's most-prestigious universities often find themselves weighing job offers, if they can get them at all, from teaching-intensive master's-level colleges. Having been trained to work at institutions like the research-oriented ones from which they graduated, those newly-minted professors sometimes find themselves out of their element on their new, often rural, campuses.

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