To graduate or not?
Tenured Radical wrote yesterday about whether one should graduate or not when one doesn't have a tenure-track position lined up. In short, her advice is to stay in school--if possible--, polish your diss, and get some articles out. She sees adjuncting or VAPing as taking too much time to allow you to polish your writing.
Others thoughts?
Others thoughts?
Labels: job search
posted by Brian at 12:50 PM
1 Comments:
2 things. First, TR qualifies this: "it is a real question," and also notes that there are financial considerations as well.
The other thing is that TR is writing from the perspective of a research-oriented liberal arts college -- a book-for-tenure place. For those places, she is right that having publications matters, and that teaching a lot will slow you down. On the other hand, more teaching-oriented places prefer to see the degree in hand, in my experience. Of course, there are lots of anecdotes I can tell that go against all of these rules.
No easy answers here.
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