Not Making the Cut
by Shari Dinkins For months I was afraid. I had sent in my application materials to the campus and now I waited. And waited. And waited. Truth was I was in love with that campus. I had worked there for three, almost four years. I had worked on committees. Two of them. Sitting in meetings, with full-timers and other part-timers, we tried to patch up curriculum and see how the courses fit together. Meetings, phone calls, drafting documents—on my own unpaid time. I had read the job announcement carefully, and put my materials together on a Saturday afternoon—a time when […]