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academic employment

Rooted and Grounded

Next week I report to work at the last job for which I will ever apply, in academe or out of it.  I have been hired as a full-time professor of history at Collin College.  I will be teaching a five/five load – between 150 and 175 students per semester – including a couple of sections of dual credit history at a local high school in Allen, Texas. I am beyond thrilled. See, teaching at a community college – specifically, at this community college, which is a twenty-minute drive from my home – is why I went to grad school Read more

Bowen Babies

Word is beginning to filter through my university that, due to an enormous expected state budgetary shortfall, brought about by a combination of cheap oil and mindless tax-cutting, my institution Read more

A Report from Kansas

[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Ruben Flores, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas, and winner of the 2015 Society for U.S. Intellectual Read more