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Reviewed by Steve Leshin for Readers' Favorite
Len Crug’s Confessions of a Pre-Tenure Professor is simply loads of fun. A satirical guide for parents sending students off to college, the author embellishes each chapter with wry humor and wit while offering practical advice you can use at home. It includes a chapter on freshman orientation: how to choose a major, with a poke at liberal arts, psychology, engineering, and more. Students who fail to study simple assignments and receive a poor grade, then complain it is not fair, are particularly funny. I especially liked the author’s inside information on tenured professors, grant writing, and what happens to pre-med students. You may not agree with all the observations and information Crug espouses, which essentially argues that higher education administrators, i.e., college and university presidents, are sometimes full of themselves. The author also pokes fun at himself as a frustrated novelist, often interjecting snippets from another book he plans to write. One chapter even describes professors passing gas in class (all in fun, of course).
Confessions of a Pre-Tenure Professor aims to be like a Dave Barry-type book, as Len Crug expressly states, being an admirer of the famous humorist. In many ways, this book succeeds. However, some readers may be a bit turned off by the chapters on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, especially liberal arts majors. Crug is all for diversity and equity. It is the Inclusion part he gets hung up on. It is all done in a fun way, as the author is striving for humor more than controversy. All college majors are covered in Crug’s musings. We also learn what a pre-tenure professor has to do to earn tenure, and how ridiculous some ideas are for a PhD dissertation or for grants and scholarships published in a journal. Confessions of a Pre-Tenure Professor is a welcome escape and a fun college handbook.
