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My academic career has been absurdly idiosyncratic. Fifteen years ago, I accepted a half-time tenure-track position. (Idiosyncrasy No. 1: some small liberal-arts colleges like mine offer split appointments on the tenure track.) Twelve years ago, I was awarded tenure, and on the exact same day, divorced. (That’s Idiosyncrasy No. 2, one I wrote about for The Chronicle back in 2004).2
Parts of this piece were originally published under the same title in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2013, accessed September 1, 2014, http://chronicle.com/article/Giving-Up-Tenure-Who-Does/138345/.
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See Trubek, “When a Spousal Hire Becomes a Single Mom,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 20, 2004, accessed September 14, 2014, http://chronicle.com/article/When-a-Spousal-Hire-Becomes/44769/.
Powell, K. “Academia: Off the tenured track,” Nature 491 (2012): 627–629.
Jackson, J. L. Jr. “Opting Out,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2, 2010, accessed September 14, 2014, http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/opting-out/25919.
Lane, T. “On Leaving Academe,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 19, 2012, accessed September 14, 2014, http://chronicle.com/article/on-Leaving-Academe/133717.
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Trubek, A. (2015). Life after Academe: Giving Up Tenure? Who Does That?. In: Semenza, G.C., Sullivan, G.A. (eds) How to Build a Life in the Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428899_26
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