May 9, 2003

So Why Are You Really Leaving?

By CATHERINE EVANS

An assistant professor's departure leaves her colleagues wondering: Is it the 'tug of family'? Divorce? Is it us?

Earlier this spring, I gave my department chairman a letter of resignation that took him and the rest of my colleagues by surprise. In the weeks since, the fallout has taken me by surprise.

Most importantly, I have been pleased to find that I do not regret my plan to leave academe at the end of the spring semester for an uncertain future in the nonacademic

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