Same Track, Different Track: One Adjunct's Alternative Route to the Tenure Track
Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Isaac Sweeney | ISBN: | 9781301121779 |
| Publisher: | Gone Dog Press | Publication: | June 22, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Isaac Sweeney |
| ISBN: | 9781301121779 |
| Publisher: | Gone Dog Press |
| Publication: | June 22, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
"I was never supposed to be where I am today. In academia, the route to the tenure track has on it a terminal degree, publications in peer-reviewed journals, and other what-everybody-else-has-done things.”
So begins author Isaac Sweeney as he chronicles his unlikely path from a newspaper staff writer to his coveted tenure-track position in higher education. Same Track, Different Track reveals the adjunct underbelly of academia while telling an underdog story about a laid-back family man who uses creativity and tenacity to find — and sometimes create — his own way.
Same Track, Different Track is a unique combination of an original narrative and Sweeney’s previously published essays from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, and others.
"I was never supposed to be where I am today. In academia, the route to the tenure track has on it a terminal degree, publications in peer-reviewed journals, and other what-everybody-else-has-done things.”
So begins author Isaac Sweeney as he chronicles his unlikely path from a newspaper staff writer to his coveted tenure-track position in higher education. Same Track, Different Track reveals the adjunct underbelly of academia while telling an underdog story about a laid-back family man who uses creativity and tenacity to find — and sometimes create — his own way.
Same Track, Different Track is a unique combination of an original narrative and Sweeney’s previously published essays from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, and others.
