September 9, 2008

Life After Death in Academe

By A.J. MARLEY

A social scientist is reincarnated at a community college as the professor he always hoped to be

The problem with "publish or perish" is that you don't, in fact, perish. When I was denied tenure last year, I had the distinct experience of being a dead professor walking. Colleagues seemed to avoid me, students to look right through me. Doors that once were held open were closed in my face.

For an entire semester — between the time my department recommended denial and

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