FEATURES
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BY CHRISTOPHER M. CARABELLO ’82
ountless alums of La Salle College High School
list their primary profession as “Education” and
a review of the alumni records indicates that over
300 graduates have gone on to earn a Ph.D. or Ed.D. A further review, indicates that over 150 of
these gentlemen are on the faculty of a college or
university. These men can be found at schools from Tempe, AZ (Geoffrey Clark, Ph.D. ’62) to Portland, ME (Robert Heiser, Ph.D. ’72)
and Tampa, FL (Randy Otto, Ph.D. ’77) to Ann Arbor, MI (Mike Longo,
Ph.D. ’52) Dozens of others can be found at colleges and universities in the Tri-State Area.
Teaching in the field of higher education, like most professions, comes with its own unique rewards and challenges. The path to
becoming a tenured college professor is arduous. A Ph.D. generally takes four to seven years to complete and involves two to three
years of course work along with a written dissertation, an original
piece of research taking about three years to complete. In addition,
post-doctoral experience is an added advantage. For the coveted tenure-track positions, virtually every successful job candidate now
boasts at least one and usually two “post-doc” years, and these are
necessary to remain competitive, which means gathering a sufficient résumé of publications and writings in progress.
The title of this issue of the Explorer, which is derived from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a book taught to juniors at La Salle College through much of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, pays tribute to several of these educators. Many of the clerk’s qualities – knowledge, philosophy, humility, learning, and reverence – can be found in these gentlemen.
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