Why I Left America’s Failing Universities: An Interview with Carrie-Ann Biondi

by Jon Hersey

From the outside looking in, it’s easy to speculate, in general terms, why professors seem to be fleeing higher education in increasing numbers. But it’s not every day one gets to hear from a scholar who spent years building specialized knowledge and expertise—landing tenure and a department chair—only to give it up and walk away.

Carrie-Ann Biondi, a ph…