Chronicle Vitae
By Erin Bartram
May 14, 2018
Ending an academic career — especially when you didn’t particularly want to — is like solving a really complicated puzzle made up of intertwined intellectual, emotional, and practical pieces. The pieces that often get the least attention: how to leave your students and your teaching behind.
Some of the dynamics involved here are similar to those faced by anyone — graduate student, contingent instructor, tenure-track professor — who leaves one institution to teach at another. But leaving academe permanently means something different, and the fallout is worth considering. What is the impact of your permanent departure on undergraduates? And whose responsibility it is to acknowledge and manage that impact? Too often the responsibility seems to fall solely on the person leaving.
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