The Freelance Academic

<p><strong>Higher education has changed-and we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how.</strong></p><p></p><p>When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education she did everything right-she thought. </p><p></p><p>With a law degree a doctorate and a federal clerkship how could her career go off track?</p><p></p><p>But this is higher education in the new millennium. Off track is the new normal. So slowly she made her own career.</p><p></p><p>In <em>The Freelance Academic</em> she tells her story and provides an accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher education has pushed its workforce to the margins and sacrificed student learning.</p><p></p><p>Best of all she gives plain practical advice for how to make the career you want one that uses your strengths and your creativity to thrive including:</p><p></p><ul><li>How to create a sustainable freelance career or side-gig</li><li>How to create a professional network that sustains you</li><li>How to start writing for popular magazines</li></ul><p></p><p>With <em>The Freelance Academic</em> as both a guidebook and a launch pad you can reclaim your career for yourself.</p><p></p><p><strong>**Winner of the GOLD Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for Careers**?</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Both a piercing examination of how higher education institutions exploit adjunct faculty and untenured staff and a roadmap that's as practical as it is hopeful. -<em>BookTrib Magazine</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A beacon of hope. -<em>Foreword Reviews</em></strong></p><p></p>