Leaving a tenured position

I wanted to pass along this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It is written by an associate professor who has decided to leave the teaching profession. The reasons are far too many to elaborate on here. But it ties in well with yesterday's post about Colgate University's efforts to curb hovering parents.

In this case the professor has become disenfranchised with the innumerable meetings, reports, self-studies, external- and internal-evaluations, five-year strategic plans, etc. These are all very important parts of what we do as university professors. Yet as this person has come to realize, when it takes us away from our mission and the real reason we entered the profession in the first place it can become too much.

It is a well written, sometimes humorous, article that all leaders will relate to on some level. I encourage you to take a look.