Why I am Not a Professor OR The Decline and Fall of the British University -
© Dr Mark Tarver, 2007
Lambda Associates
This year,
2007, marks the marks the eighth year at which I
ceased to be a tenured lecturer in the UK, what
is called I think, a tenured professor in the
USA. I've never worked out whether I was, in
American terms, an assistant professor or an
associate professor. But it really doesn't
matter, because today I am neither. You see
I simply walked out and quit the job. And this is
my story. (...)