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"So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition
Susan Basalla
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Description for "So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition
Paperback. What's a frustrated would-be scholar to do? Can she really leave academia? Can a job outside the academy really be rewarding? And could anyone want to hire a grad-school refugee? This book answers all these questions. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What's a frustrated would-be scholar to do? Can she really leave academia? Can a job outside the academy really be rewarding? And could anyone want to hire a grad-school refugee? In this third edition of "So What Are You Going to Do with That?", thoroughly revised with new advice for ... Read more
Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What's a frustrated would-be scholar to do? Can she really leave academia? Can a job outside the academy really be rewarding? And could anyone want to hire a grad-school refugee? In this third edition of "So What Are You Going to Do with That?", thoroughly revised with new advice for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226200408
SKU
V9780226200408
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About Susan Basalla
Susan Basalla received her PhD from Princeton University and has worked for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, America, Online, and the Art & Science Group, LLC. Currently she is a principal at Storbeck / Pimentel & Associates, LP. Maggie Debelius, who also received her PhD from Princeton University, directs the Writing Center at Georgetown University, where she also teaches in ... Read more
Reviews for "So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition
"Basalla and Debelius use wit, directness, and great anecdotal evidence to guide readers through the soul-searching decision to leave academia." (Publishers Weekly)"