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This is great. Yes, I want to teach and research as a career changer. Don't want to fly a jet again unless it is a fun though. I think I Could be a very effective professer in both the resesarch and teaching side. Also, I like the lifestyle. Would a Resume or CV based application meet with more success at age 43 than if I was competing with my self at 23 and ver little experience in the word? Anything I can do to expedite the process?

Roger that on the GRE, I guess that is my first step. As far as life out of academia, I am pretty sure of a decent life flying in the airlines. I went through the MA program in Polic Sci back nearly 2 decades ago. I would be open to a phd in public policy as well as poli sci. As far as becoming a professor I love teaching, both in aviation and in the military. As far as my world view, the bottom line is that EVERY thing I learned as a military officer is opposite to what I thought it was supposed to be. The higher in grade I became the more the truth was inverted. My interest in academia is that after 25 yrs of military service I have become a gosh darned liberal. To paraphrase Martin Luther... Here I stand. I appreciate the comments, so far I gather that I need a new GRE and that I may want to broaden my perspective to public policy?

Hope to not offend, not carrying a flame shied. I graduated with MA in Poli Sci with a 3.5 nearly 15 years ago with no real distinction. Spent my time in the 90s as a Naval Officer flying around the MED and the Gulf. After that I was a suit in Europe both a Fortune 100 company and my own import export gig. When Spain housing boomed crushed I came back to the us to do the job I really only could-fly airplanes for the airlines, and it takes a passion of mine and turns me into bus driver at times. I live in Melbourne Fl and I don't have the luxury of living really close to a PHD granting school. I have a well developed dissertation, thesis, which with diligent research should hold it largely unnassaible on a committee murderboard. I have some post graduate USAF International Security Credit on top of my MA. Additionally, I am near native speaker in Spanish. Now the bad news, with neary two decades out of academia I must admit I do no remember how it works. I guess I could fly and try to do the course work in my little free time or I would need a assistanship/fellowship. 1.Does have any tips for me to get started? 2 Would cold calling a department chair be a worthwhile endeavor? Thanks for waiting through the novel. Shawn