William Pannapacker is a professor emeritus of English at Hope College and a principal of Pannapacker Eastman & Associates, which offers college admissions counseling. Read his previous Chronicle columns here. He can be reached via X @pannapacker.
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Two Ph.D.s who left academe and now run their own businesses offer advice on professional transitions.
Advice
A Q&A with two academics, in English and history, on the intricacies of the decision to end a faculty career.
Advice
To be a viable candidate beyond the campus, you have to get over your academic self.
Advice
A professor walked away from academe and his tenured position in 2021. Here’s where he landed.
Advice
Why are so many tenured professors unhappy with their jobs yet unable to change careers?
Advice
Is higher education in for a new round of “quit lit” — this time from tenured professors?
An Academic in America
Online learning can be compatible with small-college values. Here’s how.
An Academic in America
What academic job searches have in common with presidential debates.
An Academic in America
Why the Council of Graduate Schools is taking on the challenge of studying job outcomes for doctoral students.
An Academic in America
Online learning doesn’t have to be a Faustian bargain.