Tenure Track

by Joseph Meigs

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892614383
• ISBN13: 9781892614384
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Briarwood Publications
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Wishful Thinking

I live in a small Southern town with its own "directional state university" (i.e., Eastern Manitoba U.), and therefore was pleased to find "Tenure Track" at a local bookstore. Its setting is the very kind of place where I live, and its portrayal of academic politics and town-gown relationships at such an institution is interesting and amusing, though a bit condescending as professors are wont to be. A young professor undergoes culture shock when he arrives at his new town and new campus. One surmises that the author once may have had a similar experience. After our protagonist endures the trials of seeking academic tenure, he gives serious consideration to leaving academe and becoming one of the good old boys of Southern business activity. One surmises that the author may have once faced a similar decision. Good read.

Witty and engaging

Joe Meigs's first novel is a wonderful satire about one man's quest for tenure in the English department of a small, Southern college. I suspect that the book is more than a little autobiographical.Reminds me of this quote from Joseph Romm: "He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it."Overall, well worth reading, especially if you've spent any amount of time at a university (either attending or teaching).