A Meaningful Academic Life: Improvised, Amusing, Unsettling

A Meaningful Academic Life: Improvised, Amusing, Unsettling

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In this essay, originally presented to an audience of colleagues, students, and university faculty, I briefly review the meanings I ascribe to my experience of nearly half a century as a university faculty member.I emphasize the improvisational quality of professorial life, the amusing characters I was able to mama mellace s mores observe and with whom I often worked, and several unsettling and agitating dimensions of university life that I experienced along the way.Inspired by the challenge training day horse supplement of educating the whole person, mind and heart, and passionate about the moral, emotional, and literary urgency of the human sciences, I plan to continue to focus on self-clarifying, evocative, and potentially transforming stories.