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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Rachel Neff, "Chasing Chickens: When Life After Higher Education Doesn't Go the Way You Planned" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Description: The majority of PhDs wonât secure a tenure-track job. So how can you pivot, and find a new opportunity? Dr. Rachel Neff joins us to share her experiences post-grad, and offers her wisdom on how to turn âThis wasnât the plan!â into âWhy not?âTodayâs book is: Chasing Chickens: When Life After Higher Education Doesn't Go the Way You Planned (UP of Kansas, 2019), by Dr. Rachel Neff, which retraces the steps that took her from her moment of reckoningâaka âfailureââto a new way of seeing and grasping success. Each chapter takes us along her new, unlikely ca...