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MAJeff here with his espresso.
In response to my post yesterday considering some of the difficulties in restaffing a course when its professor falls ill,
My professional goal since undergraduate days 20 years ago has been to divide my working hours between indoor research, fieldwork and teaching. And so I applied for my first academic job in June of 2003, shortly before my thesis defence.
Even though fall classes won't start for a few more weeks, we are already being asked to submit our spring schedules. I'll be teaching two classes, each with labs, that I will have previously taught.

Re: MFA writing programs... ANY person in ANY major needs a course of "spotting a rotten deal," another course on personal finance, and one more on parenting. Because, by God, most of them will need that knowledge.

I work in film and tv -- I have been bugging my academic friends at our regional university to include business classes for their media students for years now. Poor things get out of school with the newly minted MFA or BFA, all full of optimism, and some never know what hit them once they try to pursue a career in the field.