Dunkirk NY – This blog post has gotten a lot of attention in academia in the past week. Dr. Erin Bartram, an underemployed PhD in history, wrote about her unsuccessful attempt to land a tenure track teaching/research position at a four-year college and her intent to quit looking for one. She received some media attention for it (Inside Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Long Reads), got some pushback, and consequently wrote a defense of her piece in a subsequent post. I bought her the requested cup of coffee at the end of her first post; two, in fact. But there is a well-known saying among those who take meals at soup kitchens: if you want to drink the coffee, you have to listen to the sermon.
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