Bret Devereaux

Anyone else who got a job at a SLAC or community college wish that your doctoral department had hired more people who'd worked at one and could talk to grad students about what the majority of the collapsing number of TT jobs is really like?

To say nothing about how good it would be for them to hire more people who'd been adjuncts and non-TT at those kinds of institutions.

Or talk about service. Or what it's like to teach 5-5 as a regular load. Or talk about teaching courses completely outside of your area. Or really talk about assessment. So many things.

I go up for tenure in the fall. I'm no more worried than is normal and right for such a big-ish step, but it really makes me think of the learning curve I had and how most of my knowledge on all of this came from my parents and their friends. I am so lucky in that way to be a

Second generation academic. Did y'all's schools actually prep you?

How many of y'all medievalists were prepped to teach not only ancient and medieval europe and/or world but also american history? Modern world? And fill in random upper divisions as needed?