Defining Terms: Essay on Defining ‘Alt-Ac’

First used on Twitter around three years ago in a conversation between Bethany Nowviskie and Jason Rhody “alt-ac” was shorthand for “alternative academic” careers. At the time the term was, in Nowviskie’s words,“a pointed push-back against the predominant phrase, ‘nonacademic careers.’ ‘Non-academic’ was the label for anything off the straight and narrow path to tenure.” Read more.