I might have slipped this one out earlier on Twitter, but now is a good time I guess to announce that after my MA I will not be continuing in academia. There are many reasons for this. I have accumulated numerous issues with how academia works over the past few years. I do not want to single out my experience at Monmouth but, while there have been many lovely and positive things, there have also been many very negative and, honestly, extremely insulting and, at times, humiliating aspects to my graduate school experience. A lot of the more generally problematic concerns I had while I was working towards my secondary school teaching degree have also popped up as well.

After talking to friends and mentors from other schools, many of these problems are issues which academia in general are dealing with which one scholar or campus cannot be singled out for. That said, I think it is time for me to move on. All of that is someone else’s fight.

So, what is next? Over the summer I am going to be meeting with those same friends and mentors to decide on a course of action. Stay tuned.

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