Month: June 2013

David D. Perlmutter, Ph.D. Dean and Professor College of Media and Communication Texas Tech University 3003 15th Street Lubbock, TX 79409 david.perlmutter@ttu.edu O: 806-834-1268 F: 806-742-1085 Skype: david.perlmutter.research CoMC webpage: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/ Personal research webpage: http://davidperlmutter-research.net/...

Chronicle publishes my latest "Career Confidential" column. David D. Perlmutter. "The Good Goodbye." Chronicle of Higher Education, June 10, 2013. You are never too old in academe to experience what you advise others about. In recent months, while The Chronicle was publishing my columns on job offers and contract negotiations, I was offered and accepted a new position as a dean. Then I confronted a truism I had observed time and time again in other people's searches: The academic-hiring process was not yet over. (more…)...