LCL2021 Faculty Education: Imagining the Future - 40 Years Ago
Channel: Linguistics Career Launch
Date: 2022-02-20

Did you ever wonder why linguistics departments only prepare you for academic careers, ignoring the rest of the universe? Or how this summer’s LCL program took its current shape, independently from linguistics departments? It didn’t just spring up out of nowhere.

If we dial the calendar back 40 years, to December 1981, there was a precedent: a one-day event during that year’s annual LSA meeting in New York. It was called “Careers in Linguistics: New Horizons”, covering careers outside the academy. Both presenters – Frishberg and Battison – were there.

In this presentation they look at where non-academic career paths were back then, and provide a historical context for our present and future. And they talk about what we’ve learned about making the transition since then.

And fortunately for us, there was a transcript of that LSA session, including Q&As. If you’d like to look through it before the presentation, you can download it for free at:
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED216533.

Presenters: Robbin Battison and Nancy Frishberg

Resources still to be added:
The "New Horizons" Book
Nancy's powerpoint (with added info from Alex)

This event was recorded on July 16, 2021, as part of the Linguistics Career Launch
https://www.linguisticscareerlaunch.com/

Video editing by Gregory Gray

Closed captioning by Megan Rouch

Music by Setuniman
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License
https://freesound.org/people/Setuniman/sounds/274787/

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