Anybody want a Corona?

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[B]

(double posting in the elections 2020 thread)

Anything like this happening elsewhere?

Yes. If they had that kind of money, why didn't they spend it to properly outfit schools and make them safe?

[Monkey_Driven]

College will be there in January.

Not without that tuition money flowing in (fully aware the kid in question is on scholarship).

My general feeling on this -- admittedly without having some firm numbers to back it up -- is that the university system is long overdue for a financial reckoning. They can start with the tenure track bullshit.

I agree in some ways, but usually staff are the first to go with big shifts like this. Faculty will be last.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Rangi Guy]

So given the events from last night - my local coffee place will no longer be taking loyalty cards from midday. Used mine today - and it was free coffee time, so that worked out alright. Will be working from home for the rest of the week, and other then that not too much has changed....so far. I had been planning a surprise trip up to see my parents the weekend after next - I just hope that this can still go ahead.

[elliseamos]

(double posting in the elections 2020 thread)

Anything like this happening elsewhere?

Yes. If they had that kind of money, why didn't they spend it to properly outfit schools and make them safe?

I'm not certain, but I *think* it's coming from a portion of the Federal relief funds that have been tied up in the pipeline

Confirmed it is from the CARES package. I know the state has been waiting on certain portions of funding to come through, so I'm just speculating it's from that

Confirmed speculation! Thanks, Trag.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[elliseamos]

*informed speculation

Your post starts with confirmed and has speculating at the end.

[Simple Torture]

College will be there in January.

Not without that tuition money flowing in (fully aware the kid in question is on scholarship).

My general feeling on this -- admittedly without having some firm numbers to back it up -- is that the university system is long overdue for a financial reckoning. They can start with the tenure track bullshit.

FWIW, people in higher ed have been talking about this since before the pandemic. They call it "the cliff" lol

[Mickey]

College will be there in January.

Not without that tuition money flowing in (fully aware the kid in question is on scholarship).

My general feeling on this -- admittedly without having some firm numbers to back it up -- is that the university system is long overdue for a financial reckoning. They can start with the tenure track bullshit.

Don't know what you're talking about.

[Mickey]

Sorry, I should clarify--you don't know what you're talking about.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Mickey]

Sorry, I should clarify--you don't know what you're talking about.

lol. I lived in Cambridge and Amherst. I know more than my fair share of profs who are making upwards of six figures to publish one paper a year, and maybe teach a single course.

Like I said, you don't know what you're talking about if you think that anecdotal Ivy or Five College stories is anywhere near representative of the broader employment situation of faculty or the budgetary realities of the modern university.

[Mickey]

Just for reference about how off-base you are!

Some 73 percent of all faculty positions are off the tenure track, according to a new analysis of federal data by the American Association of University Professors.

“For the most part, these are insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic freedom,” reads AAUP’s “Data Snapshot: Contingent Faculty in U.S. Higher Ed.” The report is based on the most recent data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, from 2016.

AAUP’s report discusses long-standing concerns about the decline of tenure and what that means for academic freedom, as well as the “casualization” of academic labor and the unbundling of the traditional faculty role. But it also provides an up-to-date picture of who is teaching, under what conditions, where.

Breaking down non-tenure-track positions by institution type, it’s clear that tenure and tenure-track positions are more represented at research-intensive and other four-year institutions, where they are about one-third of the faculty. Tenure-line jobs are about 20 percent of all faculty positions at two-year institutions.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/201 ... g-new-aaup

[Bi_3]

You mad

[Mickey]

Oh no not that.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Rangi Guy]

Just got a text - my Jiu Jistu gym is closing its doors for the rest of the week at least. This is one of the things I was worried about. Shit just got real