Academia looks like it’s dying.
But let’s start much earlier.
Back in the early to mid 2010s, I was a professor. I taught my final class a decade ago, as a part-time Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Iowa. It was my departure from academia. After that, I’d only see it from outside the academic priesthood.
The changes rocking academia in the 2020s would’ve affected me differently had I not left. But hopefully there’s some value in the reflections of one who once knew the world from the inside.
