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Here's Where The Story Ends: Scenes From the End of a Teaching Career
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Author(s): Daniel Nester (Pine Hills Review, USA)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 26
Source title:
Narratives of Upheaval in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Denise Simard (The State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA)and Janet Acker (The State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-2063-2.ch006
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Abstract
This chapter presents a first-person narrative chronicling the final months of a professor's career at a small liberal arts college that abruptly announced its closure. Blending memoir, reflection, and institutional critique, the chapter explores the emotional toll of academic precarity, the loss of professional identity, and the quiet resilience required to teach through uncertainty. It offers a ground-level perspective on higher education's systemic fragility, foregrounding lived experience over abstraction. While personal in tone, the piece invites broader questions about faculty labor, administrative decision-making, and what remains when a career ends not by choice, but by collapse.
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