Hi Folks,
I’m pleased to share the news that a new book has been added to the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu). This book appears in the Practices & Possibilities book series, which I edit with Aimee McClure, Aleashia Walton, and Jagadish Paudel.
Changing Paths of Academic Lives: Revising How We Understand Higher Education, 1960s to 2020s and Beyond
Edited by Harvey J. Graff
“Academic paths,” or the variety of careers that constitute in full or in part higher education, are for understandable reasons commonly misunderstood. Most often, this misunderstanding is rooted in conceptions of careers into and out of different kinds of teaching positions. Those conceptions are shaped, in part, by the disappearance of tenure-track and full-time professorships and the related increase in contingent and sessional appointments, by time-limited perspectives based on experiences in a single discipline or sub-discipline, and by challenges faced by women and two-career households. Changing Paths of Academic Lives offers, through a series of personal accounts of those who developed alternative or non-traditional academic careers over the past six decades, a compelling and historically-based perspective on what it means to pursue an academic career.
You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/academic/. This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Harvey and his contributors for their work on the book and for their decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.
All the best,
Mike
Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Associate Provost
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Palmquist
