On Your Mark. Get Set. Jump. Safe Landings: Stories of Academics Who Leaped From the Ivory Tower
by Chris Cumo Allison Baker, who holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, felt ambivalent about an academic career. She didn’t want to fritter away years teaching part-time while trying to publish her way into a job. Nor did she want to move around the country in search of a series of temporary appointments only to end up somewhere she didn’t like earning a substandard salary. At the same time, she sensed that her parents (her father is a molecular biologist) and friends expected her to do something with her degree. She taught a semester at Loyola […]
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