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Specifically, it details his transition from a graduate program to working as a full-time tenure track faculty member at a public state university. Methodologically, this research relies on parallax as an important tool to understanding Meyers’s personal, intellectual, and political struggle in adjusting from a research institution to “performing” at a teaching institution. Teaching institutions, to Meyers, are significantly more customer service driven (read: making students happy) which can be problematic when faculty members have significant and different cultural understandings and interpretations than their students and the university as a whole. Meyers struggles to make adjustments, but ultimately realizes his duties as a teacher and that his contributions—though perceived alternative and conflicting with primary cultural and political narratives—provides him with an extraordinary and privileged opportunity to do important work.  \nKeywords: public post-secondary education, institutional politics, transitions, teacher student relationships, cultural dissonance, composite nonfiction, privilege  \nScott Richardson, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Women’s Studies Affiliate at Millersville University.  \nEmail: Scott.Richardson@Millersville.Edu  \nIntroduction  \nEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. The sitter is merely an accident, the occasion.  \n-Oscar Wilde  \nI am sharing a story about Daniel Meyers.  \nI am Daniel Meyers. Believe that as much or as little as you would like. It does not matter to me one way or the other. I am unwilling to say much about the exact differences or similarities between us. I am also unwilling to parcel out the nitty-gritty details. It is partly because I really do not have a good measure of what is “true.” When it comes down to it, I do not even have a reasonable or defensible understanding of who Iam. However, it is also because it does not really matter. I do not mean to say that the truth has no absolute value, because I think we need to believe in it. But what the truth is, I think, is slippery and even unreal.  \nRecently, I explored a bunch of old film cameras with my father in his basement. We came across my grandmother’s Ansco. I pressed the camera’s viewfinder against my eye and noted that I could see a portion of the lens.“It’s called, ‘parallax,’” my father explained. If the camera was operational, and I had taken a picture, the negative would have recorded an image different than what I saw. It would be close, but not completely accurate. This unnerved me a bit. I consider myself intentional when I produce pictures and especially when I use film. I began to wonder,“How could I be sure that the image would be accurate in other ways?” “What if the lens and the viewfinder were off-center by a simple centimeter?” This would alter the frame and composition altogether. And,“What if the images did not seem ‘true’?” I illogically reasoned it “unreliable.” Yet, everything is unreliable, inexact, and simply an impression. If I were to shoot a roll of film with grandma’s Ansco, the moments that I lived, emotions felt, process in which I framed these phenomena would never exactly translate. If I shared the images with others, their interpretations would be different than my own and I am not so sure I could, or would, want to control that.  \nWe are constantly engaged in wondering about the truth at all times. Therefore, Iam unapologetic about putting you in this position. In fact, I think for this story the method of imposing the unknown, or disruption of research as positivism, is healthy and serves us well. 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