Bow Down to Diversity or Risk Your Academic Career
By Mark Bauerlein November 25, 2018
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When jobs are scarce, and when you’ve spent your 20s living spartanly, reading books, books, books, writing a dissertation, and you’re sick of being a nobody whose only recognition comes from students in your freshman comp course who thank you for spending time correcting their grammar and punctuation, you’ll say anything the people who control the market want you to say in order to win a tenure-track post.
The hiring committees determine your future, and in academia, if you don’t earn a decent job within a few years of earning your Ph.D., you start to look like a loser. You may publish a sterling essay in a recognized journal, and you may have wonderful evaluations of your teaching, but if you don’t get a job offer, the doors begin to close on your professional career.
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