A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.
I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.
A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.