The Declining Academic

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Lover of poetry who also asks, "What should educators and the Arts & Culture community care about as the world speeds along?"

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About Chuck Rybak

I am a just-past-mid-career academic at a regional comprehensive institution, a professor of writing and English, and often surrounded by fortune tellers revealing truths one micro-future at a time.

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