The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career

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Higher education has changedand we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how. Both a piercing examination of how higher education institutions exploit adjunct faculty and untenured staff and a roadmap thats as practical as it is hopeful. -Washington Post bestselling author Camille Pagn for BookTrib Magazine When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education she did everything rightshe thought. With a law degree a doctorate and a federal clerkship how could her career go off track? But this is higher education in the new millennium. Off track is the new normal. So slowly she made her own career one she dubbed The Freelance Academic. Five years after leaving academia Pryal has created a living for herself. In The Freelance Academic she tells her story and provides an accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher education has pushed its workforce to the margins. Best of all she gives plain practical advice for how to make the career you want one that uses your strengths and your creativity to thrive. Winner of the GOLD Foreword INDIES Book of the Year. With candor and vulnerability Pryal shares her own experiences and hard-fought wisdom to make a compelling case for a rewarding professional life beyond the walls of traditional academia. -Amy Impellizzeri award-winning novelist and author of Lawyer Interrupted: Successfully Transitioning from the Practice of Lawand Back Again An indictment of how the academy squanders talent by embracing the gig economy through contingent labor and the devaluation of teaching. A new necessary book. -Catherine J. Prendergast Ph.D. author of The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America