"Longtime readers know that here I refer to my daughter as The Girl. It's a way to prevent my stories about her from coming up as the first responses when employers google her. (When she was little, it was also about protecting her.) She's 21 now, and a senior in college, so the name doesn't fit quite as well. But habits die hard."
"In a more rational universe, TG would be on her way to being a literature professor. She has that kind of mind. She reads voraciously and insightfully, and she writes with verve and voice. She has excellent people skills when she chooses to use them. She's poised in front of an audience, handling objections without getting rattled. She has a point of view and can defend it with evidence. And in my-admittedly biased-opinion, she's laugh-out-loud funny; that's an underrated virtue in academia."
The daughter is called 'The Girl' to prevent stories about her appearing in employers' search results and to protect her privacy. She is 21, a college senior with a literary mind: voracious reader, insightful, vivid writer, good people skills, poised before audiences, and capable of defending viewpoints with evidence. Full-time literature professorships are extremely scarce, making such a career risky despite strong qualifications. A young history professor reported only five national faculty openings for which she was qualified last year. Scarcity gives institutions leverage to worsen or eliminate positions. The industry ignored Baumol's cost disease, driving costs to untenable levels.
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